Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for December 27, 2023

From NOT ALWAYS RIGHT: How To Start A Pillow Fight In Six Words Or Less

My family is taking a redeye flight across the country. The plane has a two-five-two seating configuration and I am sitting on the side with our older daughter while my wife sits directly behind us with our younger girl.

When I sit down, I look around for pillows and can’t find any, so I call a flight attendant.

Me: “Are there any more pillows available?”

Attendant: “I’m sorry, sir, but they are all given out.”

At this point, my spouse leans forward with her pillow and offers it.

Attendant: “This lady said you can have this one.”

Me: Without hesitation “That’s no lady; that’s my wife.”

Attendant: To my spouse “He’s been waiting forever to use that, hasn’t he?”

It took me several years to live that one down.

NOT my story.

Everyone needs to invest in a very comfortable mattress and the perfect pillow. We spend a third (approximately) of our lives sleeping so we need to be comfortable doing it and get the best sleep possible.

Only 25th? I can’t sleep. Our adjustable bed and the recliner are what enables me to sleep, since I can’t tolerate CPAP.

I used a “My Pillow” at my son’s house, and it was really bad. This was before Mike Lindell got political.

Oh, ouch, Aunty.

I don’t know WHEN Aunty Acid came back to GoComics, but I’m glad she did! I had to go to Arcamax to find her and got a really annoying virus on my PC – I kept getting a bunch of pop-ups on the bottom corner of my screen – all junk – and they all had Arcamax’s name on them! Glad I can come here again for Aunty!

I have always (well, 50 years) had to travel with my own pillow, because no place has one that doesn’t give me a headache. When I left one at my daughters house so I didn’t have to bring it every time, next visit found that someone in the house had taken it over. Had to make a quick trip to a store to buy a new one.

I feel her pain. I have a contour pillow that I’ve been using for years but the foam is starting to break down. I tried a different one for a month but it felt like my neck was breaking. I’m going to hang with my old one until it’s no longer usable.

Aunty, it’s not the pillow that is the problem, it is going to bed hammered and then falling out of bed that is the problem.

Aunty ol’ girl, that’s the feeling of gravity…

I went through all the pillows, contour and such, without any luck, until I remembered when I was a kid we had down pillows that are easy to contour to whatever you need. I sleep well now!

I can’t really relate, I’ve never experienced falling out of a 25th story window.

So…you feel like you died, then…

I’m a side sleeper, & I actually bought a couple of extra-firm pillows to use at my sis’s house when I stay there. For some reason, all her pillows are just fluff!

She looks like she fell out of a 25th floor window.

the natural state of rest in which your eyes are closed, your body is inactive, and your mind does not think………usually two out of three….so sleep not!!!!!!!

My neck and shoulders hurt from a very sound sleep. Ugh…

AMEN..HAPPENED JUST TODAY!!!

Pillows need to be replaced every year or two. If you are unsure, look up “dust mites.” Don’t forget drool, either. If your pillow or case are turning yellow, that is probably from drool in your sleep. The second item here came cheerfully from my housekeeper telling me about some things she has dealt with in her years of cleaning houses. Luckily, mine isn’t yellow. I do replace my pillows regularly. Laundering them gives you clean dead dust mites.