[Gocamino] Bedbugs

[Rachel Yobs]

"Sleep tight" doesn't refer to bedbugs. Instead it refers to the ropes threaded through the bedframe to hold up the matress (in the days before there were box springs).

Rachel
On Oct 10, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Robert Spenger wrote:

> I guess that the "sleep tight" part of the old poem doesn't really work.
> 
> Bob S.
> 
> 
> On Oct 10, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Bridget Highfill wrote:
> 
> I cannot imagine why I could have been bitten.  I drank enough wine to keep the 
> bedbugs away.  Maybe on my next Camino, I will have to use the higher content 
> alcohol outside of my body, and still enjoy those lovely Riojas as an added 
> insurance.
> Bridget
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> 
> ________________________________
> From: Rosina <blaroli at aol.com>
> To: GoCamino at oakapple.net; saintjames at yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sun, October 10, 2010 1:04:19 PM
> Subject: [Gocamino] Bedbugs
> 
> 
> Hello you all,
> A few months back there was a bed-bug alert in New York City.  Apparently the 
> creatures had made themselves alarmingly felt, particularly in Brooklyn.
> There was a spate of articles in the newspapers advising us what to do in case 
> we were the victims of such unwanted, and clever, visitors. (Reportedly they 
> anesthetize the chosen human body site before they feast). In my building we  
> got advisories telling us that the thing to do if we experienced such 
> unpleasantness was to spray the affected bed, sheets and blankets with plain 
> rubbing alcohol. In fact, plastic spray bottles were made available to us for 
> the purpose. The advisory said that the critters are effectively repelled by the 
> smell of alcohol.
> Since we never did get the bugs in my building, or neighborhood, as far as I 
> know, I cannot tell whether the proposed remedy was effective or not, but I 
> thought I'd pass the information along.
> Hugs!
> Rosina
> ps. Some newspaper articles suggested that the bugs had been brought to New York 
> City from abroad by visitors! 
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