Platform Bed Means Less Bruises
I’m a bed-hog. I steal all the covers and thrash around, all sprawled out and loving my bed. I’ve always been this way, even as a kid at sleepovers. No one wanted to sleep next to me because I would crash into them and not even wake up. It’s pretty hard to crash while you’re sleeping, but trust me, I can do it.
In fact, in my new dorm room, the bed was so tiny. It was a twin, and I started falling off it two to three nights a week from day one. It’s rough not having a good night’s sleep right before a test. It’s also kind of embarrassing to admit that at eighteen I still fall off the bed, but I do – well, did. Thanks to my new platform bed everything’s better. I can roll around all I want and stay right on the mattress. Plus, it’s so close to the ground that if I do fall, I don’t end up with bruises like I used to. It can be pretty embarrassing trying to explain those ones, so I usually say something cool like I was abducted by aliens or got attacked by a sumo wrestler.
The last time I fell off my bed it was pretty bad. See, I had stuff all over the ground that I hadn’t cleaned up yet. My forehead went SMACK on the corner of a textbook, so I had this big bruise that I had to explain with the aforementioned excuses. But eventually I always gave in and told the truth because I’m a bad liar.
So I told my parents that enough was enough, and after researching online, we decided to get me this wooden platform bed. My roommate complained the whole time we were assembling it that it would be too big, but she admitted that it was better than hearing me thud against the ground multiple times a night.
With my new platform bed, the mattress is actually so comfortable that I don’t toss and turn like I used to. I’m not saying I don’t move at all – my roommates still complain about that, plus the way the size of my platform bed takes up half the room – but it’s better than falling off all the time. Now I just need a cure for snoring, and my sleep will be perfected.