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Take it to the Mattress

On the trip home from a family reunion last weekend I decided I would share some of my mad air mattress skills with my Aunt Julie and my cousin...
Like the time when I went to visit Philadelphia with my Mom after I had foot surgery. I was still wearing that awful boot thing and wasn't' supposed to walk on my foot without it (and yes, I did try to be obedient to that...when the doctor was looking). Well, we were staying in a hotel room the size of a postage stamp and my Mom always brings her 3 foot tall air mattress. The air mattress was shoved at the end of my bed and it cut off the walkway to the bathroom. So of course I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. I successfully made it over the corner of the air mattress and into the bathroom. But when I was trying to get back to my bed, I was on the wrong side and couldn't get over without stepping on my bad foot. My Mom, who was awake by then, suggested that I just sit on the end of the mattress and swing my foot around to the other side and then stand up. So, I did. I sat, well kind of fell, onto the end of the air mattress which reacted to the falling mass on the end of it by shooting me off the air mattress and lodging me precariously in the very small space between the bed and the wall - head down, feet up. Yeah, that was the most graceful thing I've ever done.
OR the time when we were on vacation as a family so I decided to sleep on the 3 foot tall air mattress. But the top of that mattress is particularly uncomfortable, so I put another, thinner air mattress on top of it to make it a little more bearable. I was almost asleep when I rolled over and the air mattress tipped...pinning me between the air mattress and the bed with my feet sticking straight up in the air...another graceful maneuver. Don't you all wish you had mad skills like me!?

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Tim "n" Tracy McMillan (TNT McMillan) said…
Haha...that's is graceful and awesome! I love how it's almost imposible to have a normal story when an air mattress is involved.
August 8, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Jessica said…
I suddenly want to go camping with you--just so I can stick you on an air mattress and see what happens. ;)
August 10, 2009 at 8:47 AM
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