Right. I can’t believe how expensive new mattresses are. Rick and I were watching a commercial for financing, and he said, “If you’re still paying off a mattress after two years there’s something wrong!”
I had a girlfriend once, who was a very staunch Christian. A hailstorm hit our area. Insurance was paying out a lot of claims. I went by her house not long after, and saw she had a virtually brand new mattress sitting by the trash. I was really poor, and really, really needed one, in fact I’d been looking for one for quite a while, and she knew it, but she said I couldn’t have it. She said a window had broken in the hail storm, and scattered some glass on the (sheet covered) mattress.
She filed an insurance claim on it. When I got a bit upset that she wouldn’t let me have it, she indignantly informed me that insurance wouldn’t pay the claim if she didn’t throw it away.
When I questioned that, she allowed as how they wouldn’t know, actually, but it would be like lying, and as a Christian she won’t lie.
As I kind of looked at her, astounded, she quickly amended it to she wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if she gave me the mattress, knowing that a piece of glass could work it’s way out of the mattress and into someone’s eye.
Gotta love them Christians. They does take the high road.