I've long lusted after the Tempurpedic Matress -- that delightful swiss invention that guarantees a night of pure, unadulterated sleeping bliss. A thing I've not had in a very long time, and for which I'm beginning to suspect my evil Sealy® Mattress is to blame.
That, and I live on the loudest intersection in Brooklyn.
But, see, I've been sleeping with earplugs ever since I moved to New York, so I can't complain about the noise. Besides, this area has nothing on the first place I lived in NYC, a blisteringly loug six-way intersection. Ah, the good old days.
Anyway, I was chatting with my friend Michael a few moments ago, and he casually mentioned during our conversation that he'd had a Tempurpedic matress but had had to sell it to move to New York City; that he'd gotten it on eBay. Cheaply.
At which point I nearly fell off my chair. 'Cuz it would never have occurred to me to search eBay or (as Michael later suggested) craigslist for a used mattress. But apparently you can get them (relatively) inexpensively through these alternative methods! Who knew!?!
Not me.
The more I thought about it, though, the more I realized -- this is the reason we have friends! They're the people who teach us how to make life easier; how to survive the obstacles that life throws us. In the early part of your life, you have your parents, your family -- but we also generally accept that to be alive, to be a fully realized person, you never stop learning and it came to me that as we grow older, the family we create serves this function.
Once again, I'm proven to be the Emperor of the Obvious. My tax collectors will be dropping by soon.
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