It’s About Making Babies!

Sitting at a traffic light today, I noticed the white truck pull through the intersection from the crossing road. The letters on the cab door said something like ‘old n Mattre ‘, anyway it was incomplete. So I glanced a the trailer side. ‘Golden Mattress Co., Dallas, Texas’.

OK. That sounds legitimate. Ponca City has several furniture stores. The only one I have visited is Smith Furniture, but there are other places the truck could be going, or it could be headed through Ponca City to places further north.

Only, the name sounds wrong. Or, at least, it could be taken wrong. Like the Franticks ‘Dirty Words’ skit, groaning over the sports page, “Giants Squeeze Out Browns.” So, why would reading “Golden Mattress Co.” make me wonder if they ever get confused with companies that help parents with bedwetting kids ..

I recall buying my manufactured house from “Friendly Fleetwood Homes”. I still grit my teeth, about the problems they wouldn’t fix, like the microwave that died four months after delivery, the roof shingles that have been lifting since three months after delivery, or the chunk of siding that fell off and they wouldn’t discuss. ‘Warranty’. Right.

I asked for brick siding under the house. My insurance man claimed that would help, making the bare axles with tongue and wheels removed look less like a mobile home. They contracted with Shambles Construction. Now, it takes a bold person to name a *construction* company *shambles*. And he was at least as good at laying brick as I could have hoped. The almost-responsible company that poured the runners under the house, and planted the septic tank in the middle of the planned driveway, laid what they called a ‘footing’ for the brickwork. I had to agree with Mr. Shambles, I would have expected the ‘footing’ to be more than three inches deep, and be reasonably flat, not slope down over nine(9) inches from one end of the house to the other. But the brick skirting looks real good, except for the cracks at the corners where the footing fell away. Shambles Construction, Globe, OK. Highly recommended.

While ‘Golden’ is historically a sterling name – Golden Colorado, for gold fields, home of Coors beer. Gold standard, gold jewelry. Still, Golden Mattress — maybe starring in the next Wild Girls video?

The truck went on its way, the light changed, and the day went on. Except to wonder about
Golden Mattress Co.
1240 Titan Drive
Dallas, TX 75247

And their north-bound white delivery truck.