# Bedbugs!! Piss on the matress store guy!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 22, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341 "2009-03-22T15:29:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/101 "2009-03-24T20:27:25Z")
Hell, all fathers have dementia. Its inherited, you get it from your kids. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/102 "2009-03-24T20:50:42Z")
> [@KRM](#): > > I hate you. Isopods love the smell of hate. It makes them ravenously hungry, and horny. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/103 "2009-03-24T20:56:24Z")
The biggest fear I have about giant isopods is that there will be insufficient drawn butter, lemons, and beer. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/104 "2009-03-24T20:58:54Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > **Bosda** -for godsakes, stand up to your father-Jesus Christ! You have an infestation in your house! Tell him you’re paying for it and that’s that! Shit, my dad would be pissed that I brought the damned things into the house, but he wouldn’t be so fucking stupid? > > How old is he, anyways? > > And as someone said, you found out they were USED. And now you’re trusting the seller again, even though he lied and said they were new? 73 years. I’ve been going over thing in my room, moving shit & searching everywhere, & I can’t find **anything**. No trace. Maybe the store guy & Dad are right. Maybe it **was** something else. I should have gone to my Doctor, the day I had the problem. Now, they’re mostly healed. And they didn’t look much like the photos I saw online. No really big red areas. No blood on my sheets. And I’m allergic to _everthing!_ I’m so tired & worn out right now, I don’t know if I’m coming or going. Actually, going. Dad insists I get my own apartment. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/105 "2009-03-24T21:37:10Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Actually, going. > > Dad insists I get my own apartment. From the sounds of it you’ll be happier this way. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/106 "2009-03-24T21:43:14Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Hell, all fathers have dementia. Its inherited, you get it from your kids. That is a proven and widely accepted fact. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/107 "2009-03-24T22:01:23Z")
Spread some D.E., swept it around, into the cracks, & vacuumed up the excess. Hopefully, without Dad noticing. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/108 "2009-03-25T01:47:16Z")
“Hell, Fred, you think you got trouble? I got a boy, swears he’s being eaten by invisible bugs! Invisible bugs with a really disgusting sex life, don’t get me started! Anyway, to get rid of the invisible bugs he spreads expensive dirt all over the house, and then vacuums it up. On the sly, mind you! Gets it from his Ma, pretty sure, her whole family is crazy as a…loon.” Same as it ever was, same as it ever was…(water flowing underground)… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/109 "2009-03-25T03:37:08Z")
The fact that the salesman sold you a used mattress or boxspring mislabelled and misrepresented as a new mattress or boxspring is all the malfeasance you need to prove. With bedbug infestations proliferating, this is so irresponsible (as well as larcenous) that as far as I’m concerned the burden of proof falls on the merchant’s head, not yours on the bedbug question. By all means pursue this with the relevant govt. agencies and consider the local media as well. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/110 "2009-03-25T03:44:22Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > The fact that the salesman sold you a used mattress or boxspring mislabelled and misrepresented as a new mattress or boxspring is all the malfeasance you need to prove. Well, he needs to prove it wasn’t new. **Bosda** thinks it wasn’t new because he thinks he has bedbugs. Given the prompt reaction of the retailer to the word that items he sold had (presumed) bedbugs, I don’t see any reason to just assume he’s a sleaze. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/111 "2009-03-25T03:46:53Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Well, he needs to prove it wasn’t new. **Bosda** thinks it wasn’t new because he thinks he has bedbugs. Given the prompt reaction of the retailer to the word that items he sold had (presumed) bedbugs, I don’t see any reason to just assume he’s a sleaze. Or he knows he’s been nailed and he’s hoping to control the damage. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/112 "2009-03-25T03:50:35Z")
Except, it seems, he already let the guy tear it up and inspect it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/113 "2009-03-25T15:08:33Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Well, he needs to prove it wasn’t new. **Bosda** thinks it wasn’t new because he thinks he has bedbugs. Given the prompt reaction of the retailer to the word that items he sold had (presumed) bedbugs, I don’t see any reason to just assume he’s a sleaze. Actually, he said that after he suspected it may have had bedbugs, he removed it to the garage, and examined it more closely, and thought it looked like it might have been used. ---
**Author:** ![artemis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@artemis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/artemis)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/114 "2009-03-25T21:03:51Z")
A mattress doesn’t have to be used to have bedbugs. If a new mattress is delivered on a truck which also carts away used mattresses (which can be the case if the mattress store offers a disposal option for its customers), any bedbugs infesting the old mattresses can move over to the new mattress and infest it too. Here’s hoping it was something other than bedbugs that bit you, **Bosda**. I wouldn’t wish a bedbug infestation on my worst enemy; they’re nearly impossible to get rid of. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/115 "2009-03-26T15:02:01Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I thought he was ordering his army of bedbugs to piss on the mattress store guy. I just have to say that this post has been _slaying_ me at odd moments for three days now. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/116 "2009-03-26T15:21:31Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Hell, all fathers have dementia. Its inherited, you get it from your kids. It’s punishment for what a bad kid _you_ were when you were little. **Bosda** , my sympathies. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/117 "2009-03-26T15:28:00Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I just have to say that this post has been _slaying_ me at odd moments for three days now. That’s _nothing_ compared with what he ordered his army of dung beetles to do. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/118 "2009-03-26T15:30:24Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > That’s _nothing_ compared with what he ordered his army of dung beetles to do. 😃 My God! I missed the call! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/119 "2009-03-26T15:33:36Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > My God! I missed the call! 😃 Better get rolling … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/120 "2009-03-26T15:43:15Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I just have to say that this post has been _slaying_ me at odd moments for three days now. It’s made me picture **Bosda** as Willard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341.md?page=7)