How To Politely Tell A Friend You Don’t Want His Bugs In Your Bed

I’m a generous guy.

I like to help out my friends.

So when a buddy in Prague told me he was moving out of his apartment and needed a place to stay, I told him, “Sure, you can stay at my place while you’re looking for a new apartment.”

In fact, it would be perfect timing because I’d be traveling while he was staying over.

Feeling good about myself, I didn’t think much more about it.

Then a day or so later, the question popped into my head, “Why is he moving?”

So I wrote to him again on Whatsapp.

“My place has bedbugs,” was his reply.

If you don’t know what a bedbug is, it’s a very complicated concept.

Let me try to explain it.

It’s a bug…

That lives in your bed.

Now, here’s the interesting part.

Unlike an attractive human, you don’t have to ask a bedbug to come to your bed; they go there without being invited!

They’re very cheeky that way.

Here’s what Professor GPT says about bedbugs:

You can get bed bugs in your bed in several ways:

1. Travel: Staying in hotels or places with infestations, then bringing them home in luggage or clothing.
2. Visitors: Guests can unknowingly carry them on clothes or bags.
3. Public places: Picking them up from places like buses, movie theaters, offices, or waiting rooms, then transferring them to your bed.

Bed bugs are tiny, hide well, and travel easily on fabrics.

So in the end, I had to politely decline my friend’s offer.

I had to tell him to take his insect infestation somewhere else.