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[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (5 children)

What kind of degenerate sleeps without the head of their bed up against a wall?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

People who have had bedbugs. Old habits die hard.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (4 children)

When you get bedbugs and want to prevent them from getting on your bed (after treatment, say) you pull your bed away from the wall, thus limiting the surfaces they can transfer from. If you also put your bedposts in interceptor traps you’re pretty safe from them. They’ll get stuck in the traps and be unable to get out.

Source: had to deal with the bastards for a year because of a useless landlord and incompetent exterminator. Got really, really good at pest management.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

TIL

Ha, stupid bedbugs. A trap like that would probably never fool me!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I heard that they can climb to the ceiling and drop down. Not sure how true it is, but helps to enforce how nightmarish they are, like they are some sort of unstoppable entity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I've heard that too, but it seems pretty unlikely and I never experienced it when I had bedbugs. Plus it would have to be a pregnant(?) bedbug to continue to spread the infestation, otherwise the rare one that dropped on the bed would be stuck there and eventually die...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I dunno if they’re quite that smart. If they are, they didn’t do that when I had them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Right, but in that case you could get a frame with a headboard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A headboard touching the ground just invites them in. If the headboard is removable, remove it temporarily.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are mounted to the same frame you said you put on the trap stands.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but some are removable. If you can’t remove it you’re pretty much screwed - good luck getting a headboard inside of an interceptor trap. Just the bedposts, wheels, or whatever the frame has go into the traps. Basically you need to limit the access they have from wherever they’re hiding to your bed.

[–] Hexarei 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think their point was that some head boards don't go to the floor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

To be fair, I’m unsure what their point was. I was just going with what I had to work with.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm in the bed in the middle of my room gang, never had bed bugs.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But then Monsters can attack you from any angle - Bed in the corner gang sleeping back to the wall.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Lol, I'll even wake up sleeping with my back to the door -- no fear.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wtf next thing you're going to say you sleep with your arm hanging off the side of the bed or your feet sticking over the edge. I'm surprised you're still alive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I've only woken up like that a few dozen times in my life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What a mad lad. Is it possible to learn this power?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I guess just move your bed to the middle of the room and wait until you get used to it. I'm not sure about the subconscious/sleeping part... Maybe it'll just happen naturally over time?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Absolutely diabolical

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sleeping without bedbugs interlinked

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Sleeping interlinked

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe they have problems with night sweats

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Me. I don't need my bed clapping against the wall alerting my incredibly nosy neighbors to my evening activities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

What'chu know about what goes on in my butt?