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fannypax OP t1_ja3xsjm wrote

Reply to comment by WakeNikis in Man the Bowtie is really speed running shutting down at this point. by fannypax

I didn’t have bedbugs one day, went to the movies that night, and in the morning bedbugs.

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420learning t1_ja4hbqs wrote

As someone who had bedbugs in my first shitty apartment, it wouldn't be an overnight thing... by the time you see signs of them they've been there a minute

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bkemp1984Part2 t1_ja51ih4 wrote

Not to say OP is wrong or that it isn't an issue at Bowtie, but yeah, I bet 9 out of 10 people who say they know where they got them are wrong. Like you said, it takes a while for them to multiply and become apparent a lot of the time. I bet also someone who notices bed bugs after having been to Bowtie but has never heard of Bowtie having them would be less likely to think they got them there.

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420learning t1_ja62t7y wrote

Bed bugs were a phase of my life I'm happy to forget lol. When we first had them the apartment manager tried blaming us, then suddenly more tenants were reporting them. One day an apartment door was open that they were cleaning out and from outside the room I could see the signs of them on the corners, turns out a guy was pretty much bed ridden and they were going to town, when he passed the bed bugs migrated to the rest of the unit. I was pissed since we had been battling the apartment folks trying to get us to pay our own treatment, turned out they knew about this situation.

Also, they're pretty incredibly hard to get rid of. Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite is horror words

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Court_of_Appeals t1_ja7n54l wrote

I was that person lol. In a way it genuinely sucks because bow tie is the closest theater to me and has the best selection. I even got a movie pass again recently but it’s been hard to use with bowtie not being an option for me. But dealing with bedbugs was an absolute nightmare and I can’t bring myself to go back right now. Maybe after a year I’ll suck it up and just strip everytime after I go. Idk.

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10000Didgeridoos t1_ja6n8jw wrote

Bed bugs don't instantly reproduce and don't travel in packs on people. We get them on homeless and poor patients fairly often where I work and at most you might see one or two of them drop off onto the floor or the chair they are sitting in.

Like you don't go to a movie and then bring home a dozen engorged bed bugs that just came off another person on your clothes, especially without noticing at all, and then discover many of them less than 24 hours later. That isn't how they work. Google results say it takes several weeks for them to lay eggs and for those to hatch and go through the several life cycle stages before becoming adult, blood sucking bugs.

It's possible but it's more likely they came in from somewhere days or weeks earlier. You can pick them up from any public chair you sit in if someone with bed bugs on their clothes sat there before you.

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