Why My New Mattress is 3423489 Times Better than an Aero Bed

This past weekend I accepted the delivery of my very own first real grown-up mattress. And box spring and bed frame. It's queen-sized and cushion firm and oh so wonderful. I've been living in the new apartment (also first, real, and grown-up) for two months now, but had been putting off the mattress shopping for one reason or another: but I'm busy! but I'm waiting for a sale! More like: but I'm convinced the minute I walk into the store they'll know I'm not a real grown-up and either a) take me for all I'm worth or b) laugh me out of the store. Hehe. Not pathetic at all.

But I finally sucked it up, went shopping, and ordered the mattress. And it came. And it was (is) glorious. I believe the gloriosity of the mattress is even more pronounced by the fact that for the last two months I had been sleeping on an Aero Bed (albeit a raised queen Aero Bed). The fact that I slept on said Aero Bed for an entire summer in college led me to believe that I would have no problem for a couple of months. Well, I'm getting old. My back was aching. Then it was hurting. I blamed it on exhaustion, then sitting all day at work, and when friends suggested it might be the air mattress, "No, it can't be!" I was proved wrong. After one night on the real mattress, my back felt so much better. 3423489 times better, to be precise.

The immediate moral of the story is that real mattresses are, like, way better than air mattresses. But the real lesson here is that mattress salespeople are not that scary, and the outcome is so worth it :)

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