2007jun03. Mail.
what ever happened to waterbeds?
This is the best email I’ve received all year, obviously. Let’s ponder this. One of my friends had a waterbed in college; this was back when a waterbed was just one big sack o’ water, not like the multiple tube system another friend had bought into six years later. Now, I don’t know anyone with a waterbed, or even anyone who’s expressed a desire to own one. A popular search engine indicates that there are 317,000 “hits” for “waterbeds shop store” which means something, I’m sure. Its companion price comparison site has 3029 hits for “waterbed” which is also indicative of ... wait, what does that say?
Waterbed history began with a simple promise. Nothing between you and a good nights sleep but a mattress full of water. It was a trendy idea at first, it now has the credibility of medical support, and millions of satisfied owners. Modern technology has had a lot to do with it.
That reads like something the Chillow guy [1 2 3 4 5] would cook up. Anyway. I think they’re around, but perhaps you’ve moved out of the largest waterbed demographic, college students. I just made that up. Perhaps people just got tired of paying the heating bills and “topping off” or whatever one does with the water component of the bed. Perhaps people are stringing up hammocks in their bedrooms, or making nests or living in ball pits or treehouses or yurts or RVs or sleeping outside on the grass or taping themselves to trees high up so the bears can’t get them.
