As I mentioned earlier, last weekend we bought a new mattress for the guest room of the apartment. As you can see, the bed with the existing mattress was extremely low to the ground.
We figured that if we put another mattress on top of it, the bed would be a reasonable height.
The new mattress was supposed to be delivered last Friday. In the morning I received a message that it would arrive between 10:30 AM and 2:30 PM. I stayed in the apartment waiting for the delivery. 2:30 came and went. By 5:00 I called customer assistance, and the fellow assured me that it would arrive that day. By 8:00 PM, I figured they would not going to come, and I was annoyed, to say the least.. However, then I received another message that they would be there at 9:00 PM. Shortly after nine the delivery truck pulled up in front of the building. Two men carried the mattress up to the apartment. (Fortunately, they were able to fit it in the elevator.) They placed the new mattress on top of the existing one.
After they left, I looked at the bed and said to myself, "Now it's too high".
The old mattress is about seven inches high. The new one is about 14 inches high. If I get rid of the old mattress, and just use the new one, the additional seven inches should bring the bed up to a fairly reasonable height.
Here in Mexico City, we have junk dealers that come around in their trucks and buy old mattresses, refrigerators, etc. On an almost daily basis, you hear the sing-songy recording from the trucks... "Se compran colchones, tambores, refrigeradores, estufas, etc..." (We are buying mattresses, bedframes, refrigerators, stoves etc...) I guess next week, I am going to have to catch one of those trucks as it passes through the neighborhood, and have them take away the old mattress.
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