Futon
Last night, for the first time in nearly a year, I slept in my own apartment on a mattress that wasn’t inflatable. It was unbearably sexy. My back feels wonderful. I feel better rested than I have in months.
In spite of the fact that we know that our neighbors have bedbugs and the Sun Bay management has referred to the bedbugs as “an ongoing problem”, Allyson and I just couldn’t live another night of our lives on an air bed. I, who used to sleep in until nine or ten in the morning, find myself up and out of the bed by eight almost all the time since I had to worry about the cat clawing the air bed in an attempt to get me up. It was nerve-wracking to constantly worry about popping the bed by filling it too much or moving it across the floor to vacuum. And while sex is most certainly possible and still mind-blowing on such a mattress, it is rather like trying to do your taxes on a trampoline.
We went around on Saturday, looking for a more stable temporary solution to our sleeping needs. After all, we didn’t want to spend over a thousand dollars on a mattress, box springs, bed frame, and all the trimmings if there are still bugs in the building. I kept telling Allyson all week that what I wanted was a Japanese-style futon that you put on a floor. In a moment of pure exasperation while driving around looking for a furniture store that might have something, I raged, “If someone was selling what I want, I’d pay $250 right now!” Allyson stopped by The Futon Corner on Main Street, and we found our solution within five minutes of walking in the door. The futon proprietors will sell you just a futon mattress, and these futon mattresses feel almost like a real mattress. Actually, the mattress we decided on was actually firmer than the mattress that the bedbugs took over oh so many months ago. We bought an eight-inch mattress (their firmest model), a zippered cover for it, and at-home delivery. The total, oddly enough, was $242. Moments like that convince me that there’s some intelligence to the universe, that there’s a God and he has a righteous sense of humor.