Finally I am moving into a permanent home; a lovely little partially furnished flat in the city of London. I have just made up the bed and have noticed, much to my dismay, that this bed is TINY.
OK, to be fair, friends did try to warn me about this. I may even have noticed that something wasn’t quite right during the week I spent out viewing flats to rent. But I dismissed all concerns as abstract, arbitrary and something to deal with sometime in the future.
Well the future is here baby and I have to share this bed with my 6’2’’ partner. And I’m no shorty myself. We haven’t had to sleep this close together since university when we first started dating – when you actually want to be close all night. Why is this bed so small?? Because London is short of space? Because the UK is taking longer to modernise from the midgets of the past?
According to the Better Sleep Council in their article “Which Size Mattress is Best?”, sleeping in a double bed means that “each person has only as much sleeping space as a baby’s crib”!!!! What the? Further to this, they recommend that the “Full size [double bed] is only enough space for a single sleeper and only if under 5 feet 5 inches tall.” Perhaps they should add a warning to double beds – WARNING: This bed will force relationships into a make or break situation. Can you handle being this close ALL NIGHT?
Only time will tell whether my partner and I survive this small bed partnership; stay tuned.
louashton
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