One Halloween stands out in my memory... I had ordered a water bed (the kind that sloshes and has waves) hoping to help my back and hips (it did!). They set up to deliver it on Halloween. They ended up arriving at 9:00 PM! I had moved everything out of my bedroom and was moving things back in when the truck and three young men arrived. I made room again and sat in the dining room... they brought in all kinds of boards and whispered to each other, thoroughly unnerving me! Finally the oldest fellow told me they would have to return in the morning - they had to cut the lumber to fit! Oh, no, I told them - we would cut it in my garage, I had saws and saw horses...
I ended up measuring the boards and cutting them. After an hour and a half, the frame was set up and we brought the water hose through my back door and started filling the "mattress". Another 30 minutes later I was facing a frosty cold bag of water with a pitiful heater just barely starting to take the chill off. It took 2 days to get that water warmed!
So, the guys left by midnight. I slept that night and the next on a weird, short sofa I had in the living room. That night I got maybe 2 hours of sleep - I woke up at every sound outside, totally weirded out by the delivery and wonky set up of my bed. After the water got nice and warm and I got used to the motion every time I moved, that water bed became the best thing I've ever done for my aching body. Alas, it died many years later and I miss it!!
