Water Bed Delivery Tale

When I first started my waterbed business, I was the only salesman during the day and the only water bed delivery and set up person was me, at night. I had no employees which saved a ton of money but I worked myself half to death. When you don’t have money to start a business the next best thing is sweat equity.

So to continue with the story, I sold a very nice hard sided waterbed with a big red rose headboard to a doctor’s wife. She paid extra for me to deliver it, set it up and fill it with water. The whole waterbed package.

I arrive at the house only to find that the good doctors bedroom is done in very high class triple white. I mean thick plush new white carpet, white walls and white furniture. I am really freaked out about this as I am going to try to set up a big old dirty waterbed by myself in the white room.

To say I was paranoid about setting this bed up would be an understatement. In a good day, installing a king size waterbed with 2 people is a job but doing it yourself is a challenge. Well, you already probably guessed what happened next. I cracked my knuckle and broke the skin while I was trying to set the waterbed frame. I started bleeding pretty good. I was too embarrassed to ask for a band aid plus I had no clue where the good doctors wife had gone.

I finished installing that waterbed and got the hell out of there. I left a couple of tiny samples of my DNA on that white carpet for sure.