Shouldn't Fitted Sheets Fitted?
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86575)
United States
January 9, 2018 11:21am CST
That's definitely not grammatically correct, and that raises another question: if "fitted sheets" are supposed to "fit," shouldn't they be called fit sheets instead of fitted sheets?
Second-grade grammar questions aside, why don't "fitted sheets" fit? By the name they're addressed by, you would assume that they'd fit. No. I daily wake up and have to readjust the fitted sheet on my bed...because it doesn't fit.
So much for the "fitted" sheet fitting....
Here's a country classic about sheets (that probably didn't fit, either):
This is the first track on the Jeanne Pruett album, "Satin Sheets" released on MCA Records in 1973.
10 people like this
9 responses
@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
9 Jan 18
'Fit' would imply that these sheets get upset and angry with us. Instead, it's the individual who has a 'fit', when they never stay in place! Fitted, is past tense. So I didn't throw a fit today, but I fitted yesterday when I first woke up. Does this make any sense to you? No, I didn't think so
3 people like this
@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
9 Jan 18
Makes perfect sense to me! I don't throw fits too often.
2 people like this
@FourWalls (86575)
• United States
9 Jan 18
It makes perfect sense to me. Then again, if I throw a fit because my fitted sheets don’t fit, that’s not the way I planned on getting fit for the new year. Glad I don’t drive a Honda Fit.
@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
9 Jan 18
@1creekgirl I don't either, Vicki:) I just added this in, to fill in the blank!
1 person likes this
@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9 Jan 18
Well first of all the fitted sheets have to be for a certain size bed single, double, king and so on and then the sheets should have elastic that can tightly wrap around the mattress. Here in Latvia they have fitted sheets but they're expensive so I just use regular sheets and tuck them around the mattress. As a result me and the mattress along with the sheet are doing the tango all night long. 
1 person likes this
@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
9 Jan 18
I found one! yes just one that fits. And I love that dang sheet.
1 person likes this
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
9 Jan 18
Are you three sheets to the wind again?
2 people like this
@FourWalls (86575)
• United States
9 Jan 18
In the immortal words of Hot Lips Houlahan, I’m not as think as you drunk I am.
2 people like this
@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
9 Jan 18
I've sewn elastic strips on so-called fitted sheets to make them more "fitted."
1 person likes this
