If you have ever owned a recreational vehicle, you will know that making a bed in one is an acrobatic feat worthy of a starring role in a Barnum and Bailey center ring. Many beds in recreational vehicles are accessible only from one side, leaving three other sides that usually butt right up against a wall of some type. Fortunately, the mattresses in recreational vehicles are often made from foam, rarely having a mattress with box springs. The flexibility afforded by foam lends itself to bending the mattress into a sandwich-size shape form that allows a fitted sheet to be applied to it, much like varnish over a table.
Rarely, unless you engage the services of a custom-bedding manufacturer, does any of the normal bedding components fit the mattresses shape exactly. Many of these recreational-vehicle mattresses have shapes more like amoebas than the standard, rectangular shape customarily associated with sleeping surfaces. These non-standard shapes do not lend themselves to easy bed-making. Rather, putting bedding on these oddly-shaped mattress is more akin to wrestling with an alligator than making a bed.
The first challenge is to determine what size bedding should go on circular, octagonal, or trapezoidal-shaped mattresses. One you have selected the correct size and have purchased said sized-lines, the next challenge is to make the center of the mattress match the center of the linens. After this has been determined, the sheets have to be put on the mattress, meaning that you may be working in an area the size of a bathtub, including the walls that are three inches away from your body as you wrangle the sheets, blankets and bedspreads onto the mattress.
Once this task is completed your feeling of accomplishment is diminished by the view of yourself in a mirror. Your brow is beaded with sweat, your hair is tangled and tousled and you are breathing heavily from excessive exertion. Anyone unfortunate enough to be near you as you tamed the beast has probably heard a string of blue words escape from your lips and may be in hiding, quaking while waiting for the storm to pass.
Recreational vehicles are not for the faint of heart. They will bring out the beast in a person every time.
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