# Swiddles Buys a Big Girl Bed! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2000, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swiddles-buys-a-big-girl-bed/26771 "2000-07-25T14:26:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swiddles-buys-a-big-girl-bed/26771/41 "2000-07-26T00:27:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tymp \* > \*\*A full will do nicely. That’s what I have. It works out just fine for two people and a cat to sleep in comfort. She’s a small cat, mind you, but she does like to sprawl across great expanses of mattress real estate. > \*\* A full is nowhere near big enough. A bed needs to be big enough for me and the other person to both be in it, but not touching. Ideally, I sleep with just a sheet and all the windows open (did that through Seattle winters all the time). I love being in bed with someone, but when I am actually trying to sleep it becomes annoyingly clear just how WARM a body is. Queen size minimum, king size better, floor size best. But for all know Swiddles is chaste, in which case a full will be more than enough. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swiddles-buys-a-big-girl-bed/26771/42 "2000-07-26T00:50:38Z")
Best damn purchase I ever made was my King Size Bed… I was looking to buy a Queen actually… but got a Screemin’ deal on a floor model King Size… (For the same price as the Queen-- just as comfortable, too). Since it was for more than one person, and we had been sleeping together on a full… (and we’re little people)… the King seemed awesome! I didn’t have a lot of money… My best advice… do everything but fall asleep on the beds in the store(which the sales guy told me isn’t uncommon 🙂 ). And be really picky. I mean, you’re gonna have to use it every night for years and years. Screeme ---
**Author:** ![pLt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb9ed0/32.png) [@pLt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pLt)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swiddles-buys-a-big-girl-bed/26771/43 "2000-07-26T01:51:07Z")
I am partial to my Queen Sized Water Bed ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swiddles-buys-a-big-girl-bed/26771/44 "2000-08-01T16:52:34Z")
So I bought the bed on Saturday. Half on plastic, half on real money. Sure, I can’t buy food this month, but I’ll have a bed! It gets delivered in all it’s comfy glory tomorrow night. So new question: what is the etiquitte in dealing with delivery men? Do I tip them? Do I offer them something to drink? I’m in the dark here. > [@](#): > > But for all know Swiddles is chaste, in which case a full will be more than enough. ::snort:: Swiddles the Chaste. Has a sort of pitiful ring to it, doesn’t it? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swiddles-buys-a-big-girl-bed/26771/45 "2000-08-01T17:49:54Z")
Man oh man was THAT a silly question… You just bought a brand new bed – still uninitiated. It’s being delivered by some unknown quantity of men. You have no money. Forgive me, but isnt’ the solution rather obvious? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swiddles-buys-a-big-girl-bed/26771/46 "2000-08-01T19:55:34Z")
Hey Southern, I think we need to deliver that bed! 😛 All we gotta do is give the delivery people a twenty, tell them we’re old friends of Swiddles, and want to surprise her by delivering it ourselves. Just pick me up on your way through Maryland, OK? I’ll help with the driving the rest of the way to Vermont… ---
**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swiddles-buys-a-big-girl-bed/26771/47 "2000-08-01T20:00:41Z")
Hey **Fire** , that’s fine with me. But there’s no point in bribing the delivery people. We’ll just tell them that Swiddles is a lousy tipper and that we are willing to fill in for them because we need to bring something back. In about 3 weeks. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swiddles-buys-a-big-girl-bed/26771/48 "2000-08-01T20:07:46Z")
Hell, I may not be Swiddles the Chaste, but the SwiddlePad ain’t a porno, either. Seriously, do you tip deliverymen? An informal Swiddle Poll shows 2 out of every 3 coworkers of Swiddles says “nay.” ---
**Author:** ![JoeyHemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@JoeyHemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyHemlock)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swiddles-buys-a-big-girl-bed/26771/49 "2000-08-01T20:34:40Z")
I say no to the tip. I only tip when I want good service in the future (restaurants, bars, prostitutes), or when service has been exceptional. By the time you need to replace the new bed, the deliverymen won’t work there anymore. And I’d also like to say that “Swiddles” is a great name. Next time I get a girlfriend, that’s gonna be my “cutesy” nickname for her. Oh, and you’re officially the first on my SMDB crush list, so congratulations. (And the prostitute thing was a joke.) ---
**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swiddles-buys-a-big-girl-bed/26771/50 "2000-08-01T20:35:39Z")
It’s kind of an “either/or” thing. Either you tip the deliveryman, or you accept HIS tip. :: ducks. WHAM… too late :: ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2000, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swiddles-buys-a-big-girl-bed/26771/51 "2000-08-02T02:00:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SwimmingRiddles \* > Seriously, do you tip deliverymen? An informal Swiddle Poll shows 2 out of every 3 coworkers of Swiddles says “nay.” Got a thread going about that very subject, over [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=32988). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swiddles-buys-a-big-girl-bed/26771.md?page=2)