A Tale of Two Beds

So... the beds here in Korea are super hard, because Koreans who don't sleep on beds sleep on mats on the floor. Our bed is like this - very firm. We bought a mattress pad, butit doesn't help much, so we started shopping for a mattress. For awhile we've wanted to buy a Tempurpedic-type, but not so expensive. I searched all over the internet and finally found one we wanted. And, it is shipped vacuum packed in a box so we figured we had a better chance of getting it to Korea than most beds which come shipped as a full mattress. We called the company, and they don't ship out of the US, so we decided since Will is going back to DC in September for a wedding, we could ship it to his parents and then Will could somehow get it to the airport and ship it cargo. Ok, so we hadn't figured that part out quite yet, at least not the details. But it was gonna work somehow! Will emailed his parents and mentioned that we were shipping a bed to them. This was about a week and a half ago.

In Maryland, a couple received a large box labeled 'mattress', but they hadn't ordered a mattress. They put the box in their house, but as it was very large, they kept thinking about what it could be, for almost a week. They called all their neighbors to find out who ordered a mattress which got delivered to the wrong address, and finally decided to ship it back to the company. They searched the whole box for the shipping label, so they could find who to return it to, and when they finally found the small label on the bottom, it was addressed to them, by name! So they said 'hmm! what a surprise! I wonder what nice person sent us a mattress!' and opened it up. Out of the box came a rolled up mattress, and they carried it upstairs. They took the mattress off their own bed and opened the bag on the newly-shipped mattress. It unrolled and became a 10" thick wonderful tempur-foam mattress. They thought, 'this is wonderful!' and slept on it that night, the best sleep they had in a long time.

Now, as I'm sure most readers are aware by now, these two mattresses are actually one mattress. The couple in the second story is Melvin and Peggy Jones - and in the morning they thought, 'hey-didn't William say something about a mattress?' and sent him an email. He replied and said, 'yes! and here is the email I sent awhile ago, don't you remember?' And they said 'oooo... umm... it's a great mattress, son.... i guess we'll have to get you another one!' So we called and all laughed about it, and warned them it was going on the blog.

I hope you enjoyed the story. I'm glad our mattress is wonderful, and hopefully we can figure out how to get it (the replacement mattress- not the original one which is already being enjoyed thoroughly)!