Bed Bugs

Sleep tight, and don't let the bed bugs bite. Clever rhyme. It almost seems cliche when a parent tells their child this. When I was young I played it off as just some crazy thing that parents did, but as I aged I realized this warning was quite serious. Bed bugs are scary shit. They drink your blood while you sleep! They're basically small vampires! It is even more terrifying thinking that they are some fabled creature drawn up by some crazy parent trying to be cool by putting his child to sleep with a clever rhyme. The realization of the reality of bed bugs frightened me. I was taken back. "Really?" is the only thing that came to mind. I thought someone was messing with me when I found out. It is only now that I realize how serious the warning was. How I shouldn't have played it off. It only makes me think, are there other things my parents said that I thought were fake? I guess only time will tell.

Sleep tight, and please be wary of bed bugs.