Me and MyPillow

When I was visiting my family a few weeks ago, my dad told me the story of his new pillow – how he saw an ad for the world's most comfortable pillow so he ordered one, then the FedEx man dropped off a very small box containing the pillow, which subsequently had to be fluffed in the dryer to reach its full potential, but it's a great pillow and my dad loves it. His version of the story went on for 10 minutes and was very funny. Dad should have been a blogger. Anyway, when Dad was done with his story, my sister said she had bought one of these pillows and loved it, then told some of her coworkers about the pillow and they bought one, and so on and so on, and now all of south Florida is sleeping on these wonder pillows, which cost $90 but come with a 60-day money-back guarantee and a 10-year warranty and if you wake up in the middle of the night because your neck hurts from your ordinary pillow, you can turn on your tv and catch the infomercial for MyPillow which will explain everything.

Who in their right mind pays 90 bucks for a stinkin' pillow? Call me a skeptic. Then my sister brought her pillow into the living room
and I test drove it.

I plumped it to the proper position and it stayed put. Hmm. Maybe I do need one of these. 

Mom seized upon the opportunity and said she knew what to send me for Christmas.

Christmas was yesterday.

I was expecting some sort of explosion when I cut the packing strap. 

How did they smush a big pillow into such a small box?

The pillow was encased in an air-tight exclusive MyPillow Travel Bag. I don't ever have to leave home without MyPillow 

because it will fit right in my suitcase. For $90, they should throw in a set of ginsu knives, too.

Despite the testimonials from my dad and my sister, I'm still highly suspicious of products 

that can only be bought if you call within the next 20 minutes. So is Smooch.

I've been to MyPillow's website. They sell pet pillows, too. Please don't tell Smooch.

I wrote this post Thursday night before I went to sleep for the first time on MyPillow. 

I'll post an update with the results when I wake up Friday morning.

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Friday morning update:
How am I supposed to know if I slept better? I was asleep.
I do know it was easier to watch tv in bed for the two and a half minutes before I fell asleep.
I'll have to extend the study period before I know if the occasional sore shoulder and creaky neck go away.