November 26, 2005

"That new mattress delivered from a reputable department store, which kindly hauled away your old one? "

"It may have spent all day in a truck wedged against an old mattress collected from a customer with a bedbug problem."

"Anyone who stays in a hotel, rich or poor, can bring them home in a suitcase... Some of the best hotels in New York have them."

Bedbugs!

5 comments:

tiggeril said...

Now I'm all itchy.

Uggggh.

amba said...

The thing that really struck me about that story (I thought of posting on it, but didn't have the energy) was that this plague had spawned a new strain of victimology. The unfortunate think of themselves with a certain frisson of proud grievance as "bedbug victims"!

That shows how we think as a society. You can imagine some more stoical and dispassionate culture using the word "hosts," which would be more graciously symbiotic.

amba said...

The unfortunate infested, I meant to say.

Anonymous said...

dont forget about all those lil flyin thingys that start appearing after you`ve unpacked your groceries...

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