National Pride And How It Relates To My Bed

Sarah warned me about the bed, so I wasn't expecting much.  And not much was exactly what I got.

A bit of Amazon product placement.

You might be thinking, "Ohhh...what a cute little mattress!"  But don't be fooled, it's filled with wood.  So I'm essentially sleeping on a piece of wood wrapped in cloth that's sitting atop another piece of wood.

But all joking aside, I'm starting to like it.  There are a handful of benefits to sleeping on a hard bed.  You can use the edges of it as storage for cell phone, wireless mouse, or bowls of soup.  Oh yeah, that's right.  Bowls of liquid.  Remember the commercials with the lady jumping on the Tempurpedic with a glass of wine sitting on the edge?

...rowdy alcoholics love Tempurpedic.

Well that's essentially what I have...but for different reasons.  The only difference is that NASA hasn't endorsed any wooden crates.

But how does this relate to national pride?  Well, just look at the print on my bed:

...I guess my toes do look kinda weird.

There are many things that the Chinese do very well, copyright infringement being one of them, and so is being prideful of their country. They hadn't even won the 2008 Olympic bid yet...and they were still printing off mattresses to commemorate their becoming a candidate.

I guess we celebrate things like getting to the semifinals or winning a primary...

 ...but the Republican party certainly didn't print off any McCain/Palin mattresses.