Dave Edwards and So, How’s your week going?
Abandoned Box Spring
6-12-24
It was there by the road…lonely, discarded…no longer desirable. It is a mattress box spring, sprawled behind an interstate guardrail. Why is it there, I pondered?
Three likely scenarios hit me. One, it was a casualty of an ill-strapped-down adventure in the back of an ill-equipped pickup truck. Once arriving at their destination, you couldn’t help but smirk at the now previous owners of the box spring wondering …where did we lose it?
Second, the owners know darn well where the box spring bounced to as they hoped it would fly off, hence the abandonment. And the recklessness…. Or, thirdly, the shame of improperly affixing said box spring to their overstuffed pickup was too much to bear, and the sheepish transporters looked each other in the eyes and said “don’t say a word about this to anyone”!
I’ll go with the 3rd scenario, but just barely. But, imagine the task of having to retrieve the once-desired box spring, which now has been shunned like a Bears fan in Green Bay. You just hope bed bugs are not involved.
Oh, the humanity.
