**BED BUG ALERT**
okay so you now how when you go to a hotel the sheets usually are clean, new and matching? Well that's not how they do it at the Spenard. the sheets were floral, solid, mismatched and looked about 15 years old. That I was going to grin and bear. The ciggerate burns and rips in the comforter I was going to grin and bear. The dangling lightbulb instead of a normal lamp I was going to just turn a blind eye to. The old microwave on a foldout and the holes in the bathroom door I was looking past. The "Adults Only" store right next door was difficult to look past, but hey it was just going to be one night and i'd find somewhere else tomorrow, right?
So now to the bed bug discovery...I was sitting up in the bed at about 1AM - unwilling to bring myself to lay in the sheets. I was sitting for only ten minutes in the light of the room till a bug comes scampering across my shoulder...I tried to capture it on a piece of paper and right when it hit the paper it moved at an unprecidented speed - so i squished it. I thought it might be a tick but I wasn't sure. I looked up bed bugs on my phone and was horrified to find out that it was infact a bed bug. When I showed the evidence to the owner/employee she said, "Oooooh, that's a BIG ONE!!"
I got the heck out of there and found the most wonderful hotel down the street - Eagle...something was in the title. I will definitely go back to that one.
Things you need to know about bed bugs: 1:they only feast on human and animal blood.
2:They can survive up to a year without eating.
3:They usually onl come out in the dark but in some cases (like mine) can be seen in the light.
4: You can only be sure you have an infestation if you physically see one.
5:They are nearly impossible to get rid of - exterminators even have problems with them.
6:you will likely bring them home with you if you encounter them.
7:They come out in the hundreds in the night and eat their sleeping victims like a gift from hell. read more