A Friar Walks into a Hardware Store...

**Standard** · 14th February 09, 09:49 PM

What an interesing meeting. Glad you had a good laugh today, it keeps the spirits up.

**Kerr the Walker** · 14th February 09, 10:40 PM

I must say, I was expecting a joke when I read the thread title.

What an excellent story!

**ccga3359** · 15th February 09, 09:38 AM

Originally Posted by Rex_Tremende

Well, if the hardware store was the setting for a punchline, the mattress store was more like a sitcom - a little awkward situation helped by a laugh track.

I have had my eye on some new bedroom furniture for a while. But I can't buy it until I figure out whether a queen-sized mattress will make it up my stairway, owing to the configuration of the architecture and other obstacles. So, I decided today to buy one and see.

Which meant actually trying them out.

And not until I did had I given any thought to the challenge of plopping oneself down on a mattress, getting up and sliding off in public without exposing myself to the sales staff who had nothing better to do than to watch me play the part of Goldilocks.

With much sweeping of the pleats, I think I emerged with my dignity intact.

Regards,
Rex.

Go king size Rex (as indeed your name implies). Dual boxspings, had a devil of a time getting the original twin upstairs, a queen would never have fit but the king and home delivery & set up? I never broke a sweat over my SoCo & 7.

**1MUNK3** · 15th February 09, 01:20 PM

Thanks for sharing that great story. I wish I could have been there to witness that. Fantastic, what are the chances of that happening ever again

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**Weasel Mender** · 15th February 09, 02:55 PM

1 day 2 winners, priceless

Weasel

**SFCRick** · 15th February 09, 03:09 PM

Good story

**Kiltman** · 15th February 09, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by Rex_Tremende

Well, if the hardware store was the setting for a punchline, the mattress store was more like a sitcom - a little awkward situation helped by a laugh track.

I have had my eye on some new bedroom furniture for a while. But I can't buy it until I figure out whether a queen-sized mattress will make it up my stairway, owing to the configuration of the architecture and other obstacles. So, I decided today to buy one and see.

Which meant actually trying them out.

And not until I did had I given any thought to the challenge of plopping oneself down on a mattress, getting up and sliding off in public without exposing myself to the sales staff who had nothing better to do than to watch me play the part of Goldilocks.

With much sweeping of the pleats, I think I emerged with my dignity intact.

Regards,
Rex.

Thanks Rex for the answer. My home has a similar problem its a 1909 Craftsman Sears house. We got the Queen size bed up by standing it on its end and removing the door. The room is small but the bed is wonderful.

**Rex_Tremende** · 15th February 09, 05:57 PM

Originally Posted by Kiltman

got the Queen size bed up by standing it on its end and removing the door.

I explained the situation to the salesman. He assures me that, given modern mattress construction techniques - seems they no longer have wire frames - the top mattress will squish enough to get through (while I worry whether it will take the plaster with it), but I have ordered the box springs split, and have no worries about that part.

Originally Posted by ccga3359

Go king size Rex (as indeed your name implies). Dual boxspings, had a devil of a time getting the original twin upstairs, a queen would never have fit but the king and home delivery & set up? I never broke a sweat over my SoCo & 7.

Yeah, I know it's an option. The previous owners had a king sized bed up here, but I don't want to sacrifice the floor space if I don't have to. My home may be my castle, but my castle is small.

Regards,
Rex.