Off The Cuff

To Water Bed Or Not To Water Bed, That Is The Question

Posted by: From Arkansas in Family stuff, In The House on Mar 08 2008

Some years ago, I had a water bed. I had always wanted one but we didn’t have the money. One day, we were shopping in a store that was having some kind of sale. The manager was gone but the sales guy, who actually acted like he hadn’t been there long, did a sales pitch on this really fantastic looking water bed. Well, I thought that it was likely to be too expensive for us but we stayed to listen anyway.

The water bed was solid oak stand, it had a very expensive heating unit (I don’t remember the name now but it was well known to us at the time), very sturdy plastic for the mattress and a heavy duty bed liner. The whole thing was way too much money, I just knew it. The sales guy tells a price and my teeth almost drop. It’s so affordable, it hurts. We jump on it. They will be delivering it the next day.

About that time, the manager comes in. Oh oh. Something isn’t right. He takes the poor guy into the back and I am getting the idea he is about to be fired. When the manager comes back out, I’m expecting the deal to be canceled and we go home without a bed. But the manager is so nice to us that I’m thinking something else must have happened. So, because I have never had the sense to shut up when a good thing happens, I asked him if the other guy had made a bad deal with us or something. Seems that the other guy had cut a huge dent in their price, gave us a sale price for a pine bed. But, the manager said that we could keep it at the stated price no matter what. This bed cost several hundred dollars more than we bought it for. We were blessed.

So, it does depend on how much you are willing to change in how you sleep. The water bed is definitely different but I loved it from the first time I got in. Of course, there were a couple of problems but that’s another post, another time.