Home Desktop backgrounds About Attaboy the Archives Links elsewhere Photography Essays & writings Contact info Portfolio
Attaboy.ca

July 28, 2003 — 10 AM

Summer Quandary

The purchase of a new mattress, a Real Grown-up Bed, with a box spring and everything, has me comparing the relative merits of, say, doing work and being social and reading and exercising etc., versus, well, sleep.

So far my mattress is winning. While I lay there, the summer breeze gently rustling my curtain, my mind is free to wander and wonder such pressing matters as:

Comments

What I want to know is this: Why is real-people, all-grown-up-now adult bed and linen so frickin’ expensive?

M-J | Jul. 29, 2003 — 9 AM

Is there some rule that you can no longer sleep on a futon after age 35 or so?

Kate M. | Jul. 29, 2003 — 2 PM

The only rule I know of is “don’t let your lumpy old futon turn you into a cripple”. Speaking personally, my back has only just barely escaped certain doom.

Also, I concur with M-J: real beds are ludicrously overpriced.

Luke | Jul. 29, 2003 — 2 PM

Most of the world gets by without huge box springs and mattresses, even in middle age. I always find ‘em too goddamn bouncy after sleeping on a futon all my adult life. YMMV of course.

Kate M. | Jul. 29, 2003 — 3 PM

What gave it away for me was when I slept on a carpeted floor while visiting a friend and had a better sleep than on my futon. Given that, I suppose I could’ve gone minimalist and just bought a really thick rug…

Luke | Jul. 29, 2003 — 3 PM

Maybe the gaudy design on the boxspring/mattress combo is like the modern-day version of the pea under the mattress, like in the much-loved fairy tale the Princess and the Pea; in noticing it the real princes and princesses are set apart from the mundane, everyday nobodys.
That being said, I have to agree with you ;)

— adrienne | Jul. 29, 2003 — 9 PM

I think it’s the glaze on the bagels.

Kate M. | Jul. 30, 2003 — 12 AM

I think it’s the density of the bagels. Store-brand white fluff comes out of the toaster cool. But when you put something in there that’s so heavy that the toaster lever falls to the bottom all by itself, it comes out broiling hot.

— brad | Aug. 1, 2003 — 11 AM

1. The futon, discovered in 1947 at Harvard, is the elementary particle of futility. Its opposite particle is the crouton, the elementary particle of crunchiness.

2. Bagels are actually composed of the same ceramic material that Space Shuttle tiles are.

3. Shams are a sham! Platform beds are where it’s at.

aj | Aug. 16, 2003 — 5 PM

Previously: 52% Formal, 69% Informal, 35% Weird

Subsequently: On This Day

July 2003
the Archives
Home