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If you want to get a mattress the Dreams in Stevenage doesn't give a fuck about making sure you've tried it out four times or thought about what kind of base it goes on or really anything apart from wanting to sell you a mattress. They'll just ask how firm you want it to be, show you a really cheap one on sale and then a less cheap one (but cheap compared to the guy who doesn't want to sell his beloved sexy mattresses) and then you'll be out of there in 30 minutes.
It's much better to buy mattresses from people who have no sexual interest in them and to be honest not that much interest in them beyond the fact that it's there job to sell them. There was a bit of palaver over mattress protectors and mattress insurance. I don't really see the need to insure my mattresses and didn't want to do that, but the lady ended up giving us free mattress protectors and a couple of pillows we hadn't asked for and a 10% reduction and the insurance stayed on the bill and I couldn't be bothered to argue. And the joke will be on her if my mattresses spontaneously combust.
I liked the fact that even after we'd agreed to buy the mattresses she was giving us deals and free stuff and then charging us for stuff we didn't want, but that the reductions she'd given us would cover that anyway. This is how retail should be done. Almost as if nothing has any value and it's all just a stupid game.
And the main thing is we now have mattresses. Or at least will do. When they are delivered next week.
I had come to the mattress store straight from Park Run. It's the first one I've done since cancer treatment and I wasn't sure I'd get round. Partly because the last one I did, before treatment, I had to pull out at 1km as I was too tired. Thinking about it that might have been because of the cancer.
So I was very pleased to get round in a slow but steady 33 mins and 29 seconds. I'm no doctor but that suggests that I am not only cured but that the chemo has given me slightly weak super powers. I am now able to run slightly slower than the average 59 year old man. Which has few practical applications and is unlikely to lead to a film franchise.
But feels good to have done it. Phoebe's football matches start next Saturday so I think it will be unlikely I do many more Park Runs this year, but apparently you are also allowed to run on your own too.
The window repair kit didn't arrive yet, so I will have to wait until tomorrow to do a Rod Hull.
