The Miserable Mattress

The man of the house decided to go out and buy a mattress--without me there.

He bought the floor model with a pillow-top. He and my daughter tried it out and thought it was firm enough. Long story short, they bought it. First day I lay on it, honestly..it was heaven. I felt like I was lying on a $2000 cloud.

But as the days wore on, my back increasingly became sore. I thought it was me. I was working out more during that time period, thinking this to be the reason for the stiffness. But then I slept one night on my daughter's cheap $300 IKEA mattress and woke up a new woman.

My dad said back in the old country, they sometimes slept on a "charpai": a small bed with 4 legs and weaved straw. He shook his head and clucked his tongue when I told him how much the mattress was. And then he said: "Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of"...

Squeeze me?

Why are the proverbs from the "old country" not applicable HERE!?