Al's Water Bed
I have enjoyed sleeping in this water bed now for over 30 years.
I am now in the midst of the 3rd incident of a leak. Each time I am somewhat in a mental fog how to cope.
This is intolerable and needs to be resolved, but I not sure what the heck to do.
I am not sure how long this situation has existed.
When I went to bed last nite, I imagined I had cold feet - I now suspect that I had wet feet and was too sleepy to realize that was the case.
When I answered the phone this morning (FOP asking for a donation to help them buy toys for underprivileged kids this Christmas season) I realized I was wet, and upon examination, determined that all around the OUTSIDE of the waterbed, was dirty water that had seeped into the bedclothes
My mind was a blank on how to get the flow started to drain from water bed to drain to bathtub.
I sucked on the air end of the hose and damn near vomited.
Fortunately maintenance was working on the door bell for apartment complex so I asked them for help but situation now is that seepage was removed between bed and liner, a trickle has come out of the bed, and there is seepage again between bed and liner, and I need to be thinking about
when leave apartment - do I leave it pretending to drain or what
I was planning to
pay rent etc.
heading into work whenever & leave it in what condition when I am gone from apartment
The leak seems to be very slow compared to past memories of dripping to carpet below ... I run my hand over carpet and not finding damp spots, but I run my hand under the water bed and it is damp there, so I am going to leave it doing its trickle out, try to sleep on it tonite very carefully which will increase the rate of trickle out I hope, and check around town for Waterbed places for what kind of service available and pricing on replacement.
I have no idea where the leak is.
I figure I will need to hit the water bed stores and educate myself as to what the cost is to replace this vs. whether any of them are able to help me find the leak and repair it.
Paperwork that I have tells me it is better to repair the leak without draining the bed, but I have no idea where the leak is.
I also figure there is the sheer age of the thing.
These water beds cannot last to infinity
The local yellowpages say Waterbed is all one word, and lists 4 dealers in town for me to visit to see if they can fix this, and what the pricing is on replacing, and also review what kinds of features now available that were not part of state-of-art the last time I needed something. The reason I not have a REGULAR bed is because I am a BIG obese person, who has demolished several regular beds in past times
- Bedland at 521 South Green River (the river at my house is greyish brown)
- Bernie Moll in Mount Vernon
- Big Sur Waterbeds 1335 North Green River (I vaguely remember this place - I think they swam to a new location)
- www.CrazyLarrys.com at 5310 e Morgan
3:39:24 PM 
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