Buckwheat Pillows

Hold On To Your Pillow

     Some weeks ago I wrote a post about our granddaughter, Shannon, complaining about headaches keeping her from sleeping, and my wife letting her use her buckwheat pillow to take a nap on our sofa. She had such a relaxing sleep that she asked my wife, Doris, if she could borrow the pillow, and Doris told her she could have it.

     As you may remember, her husband, Ed, asked Shannon if he could try it out. Shannon let him, and he was so enamored of it, that he kept asking Shannon if he could borrow it. Soon Shannon was complaining that Ed was wanting to borrow it a lot.

     Ed is a plumber, and we had a small leak in our plumbing, so Ed, Shannon, and their 3 children came over and he fixed our leak, and we all enjoyed a home cooked meal of roast beef, mashed potatoes, and all the “fixins”.

     After dinner we’re sitting around watching TV, and Shannon was obviously drowsy. She said she couldn’t sleep well last night as she had a headache. I said to her “You mean you had a headache even while you were sleeping on your buckwheat pillow“. I’m sorry I asked the question. She shot a look at Ed and said “I never get to sleep on it anymore. Ed kept asking me if he could have that buckwheat pillow to sleep on every night, and I just got tired of hearing him begging for it, and he sleeps on it every night now. I never get to sleep on it anymore”.

     Now they’re really a lovely couple, and usually get along great, but it was obvious to Doris and I that there was some degree of friction there, due to a pillow fight, so to speak. Well, we now know what our next gift to one of them needs to be, we just haven’t figured out which one. 

     So, I guess the moral of this story is, don’t give a buckwheat pillow to 1/2 of a married couple, unless you want to cause a marital problem. Fortunately, I think we discovered the error of our (I mean my wife’s) ways in time to correct it. Of course this lesson needs also to be applied to the individuals within a marriage. Don’t make the mistake of buying a buckwheat pillow only for yourself. Remember, a marriage is a partnership, and we don’t need friction in the bedroom. In a marriage, you buy buckwheat pillows in pairs.