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Show " 777 JUST STUFF QL by m yK I sleep on a waterbed, and I like it. I love the way it forms to the shape of my unshapely body. I like climbing between the sheets on a nippy night and having a nice warm bed. And, changing the sheets on a waterbed is easier than on a conventional bed. Besides, I sleep pretty good! But I do miss my "old fashioned" bed. There are a lot of tilings that go with a run-of-the-mill, box-springs-and-mattress bed that you don't stop and think about. The sheets, for instance. Sheets on a waterbed might be easier to change, but they aren't easier to keep tucke.1 in. The shifty sheets are always si pping up from the bottom making the bottom all wrinkly and the top all bunchy, and if there's one thing that drives me crazy, it's a wrinkly bottom sheet! The covers end up coming untucked too, so you end up with the bottom of the bedspread around your head. A conventional bed has all that wonderful space underneath that is just right for hiding all kinds of things empty boxes for wrapping wrap-ping gifts, snow skis, shoes, suitcases, suit-cases, Christmas presents not a t waterbed. With a waterbed, all that space is consumed by the base. Oh, some of them have pedestals that have drawers, but who ever heard of shoving their skis in a drawer? Drawers are supposed to have some semblance of order, there's no order under the bed. With a regular bed, if your partner part-ner has to pity pat to the porcelain pot in the middle of the night, and he or she is somewhat quiet about it, you are none the wiser. That's not the case with a waterbed. If you're partner has an urgent call, you're lucky if you're not sloshed out of bed by a tidal wave! It doesn't matter how careful he or she is. How often do you have to burp a conventional bed? "What?" you say! "Burp a bed?" The first time Kraig told me we had to burp ours, I said I didn't know we had fed it. A waterbed bladder, like a babys belly, gets excess air, and the air has to come out The more it sloshes, the more it needs burping. But what I miss most about my old bed is climbing in with fresh sheets, dried on the clothes line, on a hot summer night. Crisp, clean sheets. But, I guess I'll stick with my waterbed. For starters, I don't have a clothes line! |