Mattress Horror Story

[LOVELYRITA]

I was going on our weekly "goat run", going to a farm in the country with a friend of ours while she buys some goat milk...

And she told me this story a customer told her about a friend of his that happened several years ago.

He purchased a mattress at Sears and took it home and slept on it for several days. He felt something moving in his mattress a couple of days later. He called the store and when the men came to check out the problem, took the mattress outside of his home, opened it up to find snakes inside. It appears that when the filling for the mattress (from another country) had snake eggs. The heat from this man's body hatched them and that is why he felt "movement" in the mattress.

This is a true story....

what's the moral?

Buy a tempur pedic foam mattress.??

[CoconutFudge]

Oh. My. God. That made me want to sleep on the floor. I'd probably have a heart attack if something like that happened to me.

[hope]

That's horrible
But it could be worse.. Cockroaches.. *shudders*

[fourthousandholes]

Oh! That's what that is!

[mommybird]

How strange. I'm with hope. I HATE cockroaches !!! *shudders also*

[LOVELYRITA]

When she was first telling the story, I was expecting the rats in the mattress thing..but snakes...eeeekkksss...that's the stuff of nightmares.

[CoconutFudge]

I've pretty much got an enormous case of the heebie jeebies right now. Does anyone else feel like things are crawling all over them when they read about such things? One time, I watched a video of a camel spider.... I wanted to cry and I couldn't sleep that night. Bad choice!! I'm not one of those people that are fond of creepy crawlies.

[LOVELYRITA]

One thing that I was concerned about was going to bed that first night and having a nightmare about snakes in or under my bed....

...but what I didn't expect was an overweight cat ON my bed, on ME and meowing to be fed 5:30 AM!

Perhaps kitty kitty keeps the creepy crawlers away!

[CoconutFudge]

Oooh, maybe that's it! I should start sleeping with my dog in the bed! I don't know how protective she'd be, but I am sure that nothing could survive if she were to sit on it... she's rather... shall we say, PORTLY.

[LOVELYRITA]

Maybe that's the "secret" for anyone who is "portly", "gently rounded" .....the weight of the people on it would suffocate the "critters"...

....OR....there is one other possible way to be rid of those snakes.......

GAS THEM OUT......and you know what I mean...

eat lots of BEANS!!!!