If you don’t breathe all over a hotel bed before getting under the covers, you’re buggin’!
Although huffing and puffing on a mattress might seem like an odd way to kick off a vacay, it’s how this bedbug-phobic flight attendant is able to breathe a sigh of relief prior to hitting the sheets.
“The first thing we do in every hotel room that we come to is check for bedbugs,” Hannah, a cabin crew guru, based in Chicago, explained in a trending TikTok how-to.
A flight attendant and her flight attendant uncle shared their best, albeit outré, hacks for spotting bedbugs at hotels. cabincrew_han/TikTok
“Bedbugs are attracted to your carbon dioxide that you breathe out,” said the brunette, a registered nurse and flight attendant newbie. She and her uncle, who’s been in the airplane biz for more than 13 years, shared their best tips for baiting the bitty bloodsuckers to her over 50,000 virtual viewers.
“So,” continued Hannah, “I flip up the corners [of the mattress] and start breathing on the bed.”
