Sunday, April 27, 2008

Busted Bed

How many times should you be able to sleep in a bread before it breaks? When I first mentioned it was breaking, my father recommended less vigorous sex.

I estimate that in the ten months since we built our bed in Vilnius we've slept in it up to 75 times. Last night we finally broke it. It was a wooden mattress on nine steal legs that we just screwed onto it. Is 75 nights a good lifespan for a bed? To be fair, sometimes we slept at other times of day too.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Haha your old man is funny! Anyway, how often are you guys in Vilnius? You're talking about Riese, right?

Aras said...

yeah, we go to vilnius about ever other week. the best is when we both have a seminar there on a friday or a monday, so our workplaces pay for the trip.

Trashcan said...

sounds to me like what's in question here is not the vigorousness of the sex, but the workmanship on the bed.

Also i'm going to assume that you have a normal mattress on top of a wooden box spring (really with no box spring, and just a piece of wood) cause just sleeping on a wooden mattress would be pretty sucky indeed. According to wikipedia a box spring increases the life of the unit by 68%.

The more you know.

Aras said...

well loky, you probably know exactly what i'm talking about. it's a single unit, a mattras attached to a wood frame, that i believe used to be part of the bed on the third floor. i don't remember what happened to the bed, why we had to put in on legs instead. there's nothing on top of something else, it's just a boxspring/matress hybrid--very high tech.