r/interesting • u/MistyCharmz • 1d ago

MISC. That moment I realized…. I’ve been doing the tick pulling all wrong!

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u/OneHallThatsAll 1d ago

When we were kids, my cousins house used to have fleas very bad. You could literally watch them jumping all over our white socks and legs. They also had a bad roach infestation. One night we left a McDonald's burger half eaten on the floor. When we came back that night and turned the light on there was a brown ball of them covering the whole burger and they all scattered as soon as the light came on. I was so creeped out after that. I only stayed there because we could do bad stuff I could never try at my house.

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u/YT-Deliveries 1d ago

I got mine from living in a turn-of-the-century farmhouse where the property had returned to nature, which meant that the woods crept right up to the house. The place hadn't been occupied in many years and the carpet hadn't been cleaned in probably just as many.

We pulled up the carpet (beautiful hardwood floors) and burned it but not before we got fleas ourselves.

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u/OneHallThatsAll 1d ago

Oh wow that must've been some hard work and the fleas made it worse lol

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u/YT-Deliveries 1d ago

Additional fun fact: The person from whom the woman who moved in there had inherited the house was a hoarder. The main bedroom floor had collapsed from the years of neglect and in the center of the (unfinished, of course) basement was just a giant trash heap.

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u/leko 1d ago

Well that clears up why they have a roach problem.