Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 04, 2015

Is that an IBM Selectric on her desk? In 1985, even I had a word processor.

Yup.

Water beds, do they even make them anymore?

As I recall, waterbeds were very cold when first filled up and took ages to warm even when the heater was turned on. Not exactly an enticement for the lady.

Waterbeds were nice in the Winter the room was cold but the bet was 90 degrees.They were supposed to be good for your back , but as you get older you find you need firm support.Plus wasn’t much fun when it sprung a leak all over the carpet.

OK, if you fill it with warm water. But it still takes a long time.

I replaced my water mattress with a temperpedic last year when my wife was sick & had difficulty getting in & out. I had to go online to find parts &sheets for it.

I never liked water beds. They’re tough on the knees!

(Think about it…… I’ll wait.)

Waterbeds…I’ve had several. The last one was heated and had baffles to reduce slosh. Very cushy. Now I have select comfort. My husband loves it because it solved the knee problem. Ha!

not vex, his wife commenting. Always felt like a beached whale trying to turn over in them, and they needed a heater, were damp, probably encouraged mold growth, and knowing there was a sheet of vinyl between me and stagnant water was rest disturbing….i do not think sleeping on vinyl be it water or air filled is healthy. feels clammy and one can smell the plastic. also our dogs and cats slept with us….glad to get it out years ago.

… and you had to get dressed all over again.

We had a waterbed up until last year. Finally got rid of it. Too damn old to struggle out of it every morning. I do miss the heater in January, though.

Outdated strip, though celebrating singularity still seems nice. That is if it is what you want.

When I did geology field camp in 1968, even before water beds, we stored the camp water supply in a surplus WWII water bladder. It was strictly forbidden to lay on it (except for a get-it-out-of-your-system trial at the very beginning). The camp comics nicknamed it “Lola.”

I had a soft-side waterbed once. It was like a hollowed out mattress with the water bag where springs would have been. It used regular sheets and everything. Unfortunately, one winter the power went out for a couple weeks and it got so cold I was sleeping on the floor. I got rid of it after that. Just not safe when living out in the country.

Been sleeping on water beds since 1975. My current one is a soft side with baffles. Don’t think I can sleep on anything else.

Mike’s coffee cup seems to have jumped from his hand all the way over the file drawer and onto the desk between frames three and four. (“Seems” only because we can’t see his left hand in four.) Then again, in comics everything is two-dimensional, (see how far Mike’s right arm reaches over on the top) so maybe he just reached over and put it there.