Dealing with mattresses
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325945)
Rockingham, Australia
February 17, 2023 1:48am CST
I was trading comments with a myLotter recently about mattresses. Sorry I can’t quite remember who with but I mentioned that, often, if I have to move a mattress, I end up with the giggles as they are so cumbersome and unwieldly to try to do anything with.
I’m currently reading A Gentleman in Moscow, a New York Time bestseller, by Amor Towles. I’m getting to the connection. 
The gentleman needs a mattress from a hotel room and I quote from page 251 ‘… the mattress was decidedly against it. … It crossed its arms, held its breadth (sic) and refused to budge. When he managed to get it upright, it immediately flopped over his head….’
A page later ‘Lifting the mattress onto its edge, he leaned it against the wall and warned it to stay put, if it knew what was good for it’.
I thought this was such magical writing. It made me laugh. Luckily, our current mattress has handles which makes manoeuvring it a little easier.
I don’t have a photo of a mattress but here’s a sleeping child. It was a very hot night!
The gentleman needs a mattress from a hotel room and I quote from page 251 ‘… the mattress was decidedly against it. … It crossed its arms, held its breadth (sic) and refused to budge. When he managed to get it upright, it immediately flopped over his head….’
A page later ‘Lifting the mattress onto its edge, he leaned it against the wall and warned it to stay put, if it knew what was good for it’.
I thought this was such magical writing. It made me laugh. Luckily, our current mattress has handles which makes manoeuvring it a little easier.
I don’t have a photo of a mattress but here’s a sleeping child. It was a very hot night!25 people like this
26 responses
@rakski (112925)
• Philippines
17 Feb 23
I just currently transferred a mattress from my daughter's room to our room unfortunately I have to wait for hubby since my arms do not have enough power to move it more. I also had to tackle my son's mattress, I wonder why did I buy that, so heavy
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
17 Feb 23
Pretty has one of those memory foam mattresses. It isn't supposed to be flipped or turned.
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@JudyEv (325945)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Feb 23
@DaddyEvil That saves a lot of hassle.
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@RebeccasFarm (86772)
• United States
17 Feb 23
Yes mattresses definitely need handles. That is very good writing too Judy
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
17 Feb 23
Somebody was using their brain when they wrote that description of a mattress!
Last week Pretty and I flipped and turned my queen sized mattress... 
Let's just say Pretty was making up new words by the time we managed to get it done. I was giggling so hard and she was getting mad. 
The mattress almost won. 
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
17 Feb 23
@JudyEv My mattress has handles on it, too. But Pretty doesn't have the reach to grab more than one handle at a time. One handle isn't enough to keep control of a mattress.
I pulled my mattress halfway across my bed and Pretty told me to push the top of it over and she'd catch it... I pushed it over and it took her to the floor. I was giggling too hard to be able to pick it up so she could get out from under it. I think she was more mad at my giggling than at the mattress knocking her onto my thick carpeting. 
I pulled my mattress halfway across my bed and Pretty told me to push the top of it over and she'd catch it... I pushed it over and it took her to the floor. I was giggling too hard to be able to pick it up so she could get out from under it. I think she was more mad at my giggling than at the mattress knocking her onto my thick carpeting. 1 person likes this
@JudyEv (325945)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Feb 23
@DaddyEvil I would find it humiliating to be sat on by a mattress but worse if someone laughed at me!
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@arunima25 (85389)
• Bangalore, India
17 Feb 23
That made me laugh . The writer's sense of humour and his way with words is so evident.
Our master bedroom has a memory foam mattress and that is not supposed to be flipped.. and even moving it is tough with its size and weight..The mattresses in other rooms have been made on order and they have soft cotton in it. We can easily fold them whenever needed..
. The writer's sense of humour and his way with words is so evident.
Our master bedroom has a memory foam mattress and that is not supposed to be flipped.. and even moving it is tough with its size and weight..The mattresses in other rooms have been made on order and they have soft cotton in it. We can easily fold them whenever needed..4 people like this
@allknowing (130064)
• India
17 Feb 23
Never attempted it without help. They are unwieldy.
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
18 Feb 23
@JudyEv Our guest room has two single beds put together but no I have not attempted to do anything like that We have help and you know that
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@JamesHxstatic (29256)
• Eugene, Oregon
18 Feb 23
Right, mattresses are as unwieldy as can be. A friend recommended that book, and that was a funny scene you mentioned, but I was glad to be finished with it.
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@DianneN (247080)
• United States
17 Feb 23
Hubs can manage turning and flipping the mattresses with a little help from me. Our master bedroom at home has such a heavy mattress that it can only be rotated. Fortunately, it never needs turning.
Great book! I read it a couple of years ago.
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@just4him (306523)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
17 Feb 23
The book sounds really good. Great description about moving the mattress. You can see the action and the finger pointing at the mattress.
That picture really dates you. I take it that's your son with the nondisposable diapers with plastic pants. Cute picture.
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@shaggin (71662)
• United States
17 Feb 23
Oh gosh that’s a hoot isn’t it! My mattress is a full size and impossible for me to move on my own. There are no handles either but my childrens beds that are twins sizes have handles and are much easier to move around. I’m thinking maybe Felicia Kane is who you were chatting to about mattresses? Her bed broke and she had had such a hard time trying to move her mattress.
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@Tampa_girl7 (49056)
• United States
17 Feb 23
Thanks for making me smile. Love the photo.
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@RasmaSandra (73538)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 Feb 23
That is good and imaginative writing like making the mattress an animated object.
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@AliCanary (3045)
•
17 Feb 23
I like anthropomorphism, too, both with inanimate items and animals. It's usually good for a chuckle. Sounds like a fun book!
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