Crazy Mattress Storyby: Mitch Endick A major brand name mattress manufacturer sales rep told me this story and swore it was true and it happened to him. This sales rep's job was to travel the state and resolve consumer complaints. A store called him for help with a lady that was complaining that there was a snake in her mattress. She had the mattress in her home for about three months and discovered that it had a live snake sewn into it. She was scared half to death of the mattress. The store would not take the mattress back because they felt she was crazy. A little side note here. Mattress stores really can't take a mattress back that doesn't have a true manufacturers defect because due to state laws, they can't re-sell the mattress without a state used furniture permit and an outfit to spray the mattress with approved insecticide. So after much screaming from the consumer about her mattress with the snake in it and threats of going to the attorney general, the manufacturers rep decided to give the home a visit.
The major mattress manufacturer rep and a representative from the furniture store set out to look at the mattress with the mysterious snake living in it. When they got to the house they discovered a very scared little old lady. No amount of explaining to this woman that a snake could not possibly be alive in the mattress due to a lack of water would placate her so in desperation the rep produced a box knife and proceeded to cut the mattress open to prove once in for all that there was no snake. The rep cut a huge slit in the bed, ruining it, and examined the insides of the mattress. There was no snake. He motioned the lady closer, who was keeping her distance in fear of a mad reptile being set free at last. "Look no snake!" The lady turned pale and exclaimed "You set the snake loose in my house!" Sometimes it doesn't pay to get out of bed.
About the AuthorMitch Endick
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