Pillow Fights...
Alex is devious.
We have three types of pillows on our bed. We have two fiber filled pillows. These are not my favorite kind... I think that they're too firm and so I use them for filling my Shams. We have two feather filled pillows. I enjoy these because they are squishable, which allows you to mold them into any cozy shape you wish. These pillows get regular, white pillow cases. Unfortunately, the feathers in these pillows tend to wriggle their way out of the pillow and they stick in your face. That kind of sucks, so these pillows are "middle pillows". They go on top of the sham pillows for sleeping, but underneath the last set of pillows. The last set of pillows are down filled. They are wonderfully lovely pillows. They don't have any sharp feather "stems" that stick you in the face, but they are squishy and moldable and fluffly. They are awesome. These pillows get the softest pillowcases - they're blue - and they go on top of all of the other pillows for sleeping.
It's a system. A color coded system with one sham, one white pillow, and one blue pillow. A system that works. You've got your base pillows on the bottom for support (and to keep the other pillows from being sucked into the the void at the bottom of the headboard), you've got your one set of squishy pillows in the middle and another set on top for fluffiness. I've tried to explain the system to Alex, but he doesn't get it. I try and arrange his pillows for him so that he gets optimal benefit from the system, but he apparently thinks that I'm anal. He wants to go his own way... but then he gets sticky feather stems in his face and gets upset. He just doesn't appreciate the system.
One night, I climbed in bed and discovered that Alex had switched the color coded pillow cases so that I had one fiber pillow and two feather pillows. He had a fiber pillow and the two fluffly town pillows. That cad! I called him on it and he tried to deny it - but who else would switch the pillows? I switched the cases back so that we each had an equal distribution of fluffy pillows every night since then, it's been a race to get to bed to make sure that the pillows are distributed fairly.
Last night I finished brushing my teeth and walked into the bedroom. I noticed Alex laying in the bed, trying to look innocent. He'd switched the pillows again. I had two white pillows on my side of the bed, while he had two blue pillows. I threw one of the white pillows at him and grabbed a blue one from under his head, all the while scolding him on switching the pillows. He seemed to not resist too much. I layed down for a moment and realized why he was now laying next to me with a rediculous grin on his face... He'd not only switched the pillows, but he switched the pillow cases as well! The white pillow that he had placed on top of my pillow pile was actually one of the good down pillows with a white (feather pillow) pillow case on it. He'd anticipated that I'd get in bed, see the white pillow and immediately switch it for one of the blue pillows that he had under his head. He'd tricked me. Tricked me into giving him both of the good pillows. He is a devious fiend. Of course when I realized that he'd tricked me, I righted the pillows with all of the correct pillow cases and made sure that they were equally distributed. I told him that he was not clever and that he did not, in fact, know me that well.
Jerk. :)
I guess the answer to this whole pillow dillema is that we should just get more pillows... If we had no "bad" pillows on the bed, there'd be no cause for pillow fights. I'm lazy though. Or cheap. Or something. I guess I'd rather risk the nightly race to bed and wrestling for pillows than go out and buy more...
