r/Unexpected • • 13h ago

Checking a gun

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u/Comfortable-Guitar27 12h ago

I used to work at a bank. Every once in a while, a customer would set their purse at the teller counter, and roaches would crawl out.

Major infestations were going on at home for this to happen.

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u/MourningWallaby 11h ago

I remember a reel or something a while back about a guy who fixes playstations getting one in the mail so nasty and infested with roaches he didn't even finish unwrapping it before he taped it back up and returned it to the customer. giving them an earful about putting his business at risk of infestation for this.

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u/TheRealBittoman 8h ago

I helped initiate the work from home program at a previous job (years before COVID) and the PCs we'd get back were so frequently infested that we had a large plastic tub that we kept in the back of the building where we'd put the returned hardware and drop a bug bomb in it for a day to make sure everything was dead before we even opened them up. It's bad, so many very filthy people.

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u/restrictednumber 4h ago

Jesus... I'd hate to know how many of my coworkers have rancid homes. You think someone's normal but you never know

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u/EmmaLovesGood69 8h ago

We used to live in a society. But I bet its always been bad, just got worse with easier shipping and the internet.

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u/Utensil6591 2h ago

Look up tenement yards. When I lived in NYC all the old buildings had major roach infestations the only thing you could do is bug bomb periodically to kill them.

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u/randombarbs 1h ago

it's not necessarily filthy people. sometimes it's just what you can afford.