Confessions of Things That Go On in
Our Bedroom in the Middle of the Night
For the first twenty-eight years, Richard and I slept on a
queen-size mattress. As with many
couples, we are complete opposites. I am
hot natured, and he is always cold. He
likes a hard mattress. I want it to be
soft. He wants the heater on. I want the a/c on.
He is a lark. I am an
owl. As I said, we are complete opposites.
During those twenty-eight years, Richard would turn over in
bed about every three hours. Nothing
really wrong with that except, he always turns the same direction. And with each roll, he would take the sheet
and thin blanket with him until he was wrapped like a dead body in a rug. If I had a dollar for every time I was faced
with this situation, I could be sitting pretty (or in this case, laying pretty).
Many, many nights I would get out of bed, walk to Richard’s
side, grab the edge of the blanket, put my foot on the side of the bed, and
pull with all my might. I’d unroll him
like a Venetian blind. Funny thing is,
he seldom ever woke up. Believe me, he
would have awaken quickly if he had known how appealing that dead body in a rug
sounded to me.
Somewhere around the twenty-ninth year of our wedded bliss,
I developed back trouble (probably from having to unroll him), so we had to do
something different with the mattress.
We tried a couple different ones, but we were like Goldilock’s
bears. This one was too hard. This one was too soft.
Our solution came in the form of twin beds put together
inside a king-size frame. I have a
Craftmatic adjustable bed, and Richard’s is one of those thick foam jobbies. He got his from F. Flintstone Rock Quarry and
Mattress Sales.
During this whole trip to Alaska, Richard’s side of the bed
has been made up with a fitted sheet, top sheet, twin-size heating blanket (heated
almost every night) and a lightweight coverlet.
Me? Bottom sheet, top sheet. Good to go.
When we get out of bed in the morning, the room looks like a
war zone. My top sheet is tucked in the
crevice between our tight-fitting mattresses.
The heating blanket and the coverlet are twisted into a ball and are lying
on the floor at the foot of Richard’s side of the bed.
We have the same conversation EVERY morning.
Richard: What do you do during the night to cause this
mess?
Me:
I don’t do that. Remember I never
have covers. That’s why I sleep in long
flannel nightgowns at all time.
Richard: Well, I’m always cold. I wouldn’t kick off my blanket. It has to be you.
Me:
They are on your side of the bed.
It has to be you.
We really are puzzled by this. Well, the other night, I’d gone to the
bathroom about 3:00am, I was just making my way around the foot of the bed,
when Richard sat straight up, literally rolled the heating blanket and coverlet
into a ball and pitched it to the floor, missing me by inches. He lay back down. He was sound asleep.
I was so excited you would have thought I’d discovered the
secrets of the Pyramids. Of course,
Richard didn’t believe me. That’s okay
because I saw it with my own eyes and even I didn’t believe it. LOL
Oh, and by the way, he quit rolling inside the covers when
he started using a breathing apparatus for sleep apnea. It’s like a tether that bulks at that rolling
thing.
Until next time,
Dolores
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