Bugs! Ugh!

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Believe me when I say "I've had enough of bugs for a lifetime!" I think we have had every possible awful, disgusting bug imaginable(in the U.S. that is) infesting our apartment at one time or another. (Late 90's)First, it was head lice. They are so nasty. My granddaughter brought them home from grade school.(She will soon be 30 and has three children now). This was in the late nineties. My daughter and I both had long, thick hair then. My granddaughter was the only one who liked her hair shorter. The bugs continued to resurface until finally one weekend I had us scour the place and then I took us to the park. I drove back along the bushes where people wouldn't notice so much. Had us set out on the lawn and I used a comb and took each and every bug and any eggs adhering to the hair shaft. We never had them again. (About 2000)Secondly, we had bed bugs. I don't know how we acquired the horrid little guys but we did. The best we can figure is they came in with an uncovered mattress. I had them biting me at night and it was horrible. Finally, we got rid of all our mattresses and got different ones. (About 2010)The real corker was the cockroaches. Yeah, we had those too. We had to move all of our furniture(a substantial amount too) out from the walls, and vacate for several hours while fumigators came in and sprayed this horrible chemical all around the entire apartment. They are hard to kill and they had to do it twice. We learned later that the rather odd neighbors who could be heard chopping something at all hours and exchanging fowel-smelling packages among other tenants from time to time were the ones who brought them to the complex. Maintenance had to completely redo the flooring in the kitchen after they moved out. I don't know if Karma had us in its clutches or what but, we are now free and clear and don't even have a spider or ant here to speak of. Knock on wood! I learned a lot from these little critters. Hope I never need any of that knowledge again.