Monday, June 23, 2025 Issue #110

From Dubois County

Good afternoon, Reader,

For about two months now, we have been receiving replacement components for our bed.

We have a Sleep Number bed that we bought in 2004. Yes, our bed is more than 20 years old.

It was one of those significant financial decisions for us as a young couple, based on a thorough review of Amy's parents' experience with the Sleep Number bed and its longevity.

So, if you don't know, a Sleep Number bed is an inflatable bed that, through whatever technical magic this company employs, allows you to choose the softness of your mattress.

Anyway, apparently, the model year we bought had a defect. However, it only recently became a problem for us. Sleep Number supports their product thoroughly, and although they repeatedly reminded us of the age of our bed, they took care of the issue by sending us a completely new bed.

Piece by piece by piece by piece in giant boxes over the past two months, because they had to custom-make each part if our no longer in production bed.

Finally, this past Saturday, we received the final giant box at 7 p.m. and spent Sunday rebuilding this bed.

This was all accomplished through multiple calls to the company's help line, beginning from the time we noticed the issue.

Each time someone answers your call, they will say their name and then their sleep number. Smaller numbers are softer beds. Amy and I are usually 90 to 95, but not a single person answering the phone for the company ever had a number higher than 50.

Anything below 50 is about as solid as a partially inflated pool float.

People like soft beds. At my age and the regular soreness I experience, I don't understand how anyone can sleep with a four-inch foam mattress topper.

Maybe the pain I feel in soft beds is revenge for my misdeeds in the Navy.

At my first training station, we had a guy named Roach who had to sleep on the hard tile floor of the barracks due to his bad back. He was 28, and to our 18-year-old knuckleheaded brains, he was considered old.

Roach would put one of his mattress sheets on the floor and then lie down on top of it with the other sheet and blanket as his cover. He was a heavy sleeper, and one night while he slept, we decided to staple his sheets together -- a Roach hot pocket of sorts.

I don't remember how he got out, but we had a great time doing it.

These days, though, I sympathise with Roach.

Here's hoping my bed lasts another 20 years.

From Dubois County with love.

Matthew and Amy Crane

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