Odd
I recently happened upon an odd website when I went looking for facts about hippos. Not only are they aggressive, overweight, given to unpredictable tantrums—but they are responsible for close to 3,000 deaths yearly.
The same site indicated that sleeping in a bed is not a benign activity, but one fraught with dire consequences. 1.8 million people visit hospital emergency rooms because of a fall from slumber to the floor. For 450 people the results are irreversible—death. I wonder if the statistics weren't quite as daunting when beds were lower. I am short and sometimes I feel that I am pole vaulting onto the mattress without the pole.
Russia has a problem with icicles. Falling ice daggers take the lives of 100 people a year.
If you take a nap in the proximity of an red ant hill in Africa and you're a heavy sleeper the ants may overtake you. Since some of the colonies count millions of denizens it's easy to see how the shock of so many crawling creatures may upset your equilibrium and send you into shock. However, only thirty people a year succumb to the ants.
What is one to do?
Thus far no hippos have been spotted in my neighborhood and my neighbors two cats spend their days hunting. The wild turkeys have not crossed the line.
If I eschew high beds and instead place a futon on the floor the distance between the top of the futon and the floor would not cause significant trauma. It's certainly something to ponder. In lieu of that solution I can move closer to the middle of the mattress and surround the bed with down pillows.
New England icicles can present a problem, but at the moment the heat precludes any rumination regarding icicles.
I've declared a moratorium on naps near ant hills.
I did discover that jelly fish are responsible for more deaths than sharks and falling coconuts take the lives of 150 people a year.
Cows cause about twenty deaths a year in the United States. And these are deliberate attacks, not errant deeds. Having grown up in the city I always thought that cows give you one impression , but there's another side to every cow.
So what does one do with all this information? Release it and move on—
Did you know that cliffs were safer than stairs. Oh what is one to do with all this knowledge?
The same site indicated that sleeping in a bed is not a benign activity, but one fraught with dire consequences. 1.8 million people visit hospital emergency rooms because of a fall from slumber to the floor. For 450 people the results are irreversible—death. I wonder if the statistics weren't quite as daunting when beds were lower. I am short and sometimes I feel that I am pole vaulting onto the mattress without the pole.
Russia has a problem with icicles. Falling ice daggers take the lives of 100 people a year.
If you take a nap in the proximity of an red ant hill in Africa and you're a heavy sleeper the ants may overtake you. Since some of the colonies count millions of denizens it's easy to see how the shock of so many crawling creatures may upset your equilibrium and send you into shock. However, only thirty people a year succumb to the ants.
What is one to do?
Thus far no hippos have been spotted in my neighborhood and my neighbors two cats spend their days hunting. The wild turkeys have not crossed the line.
If I eschew high beds and instead place a futon on the floor the distance between the top of the futon and the floor would not cause significant trauma. It's certainly something to ponder. In lieu of that solution I can move closer to the middle of the mattress and surround the bed with down pillows.
New England icicles can present a problem, but at the moment the heat precludes any rumination regarding icicles.
I've declared a moratorium on naps near ant hills.
I did discover that jelly fish are responsible for more deaths than sharks and falling coconuts take the lives of 150 people a year.
Cows cause about twenty deaths a year in the United States. And these are deliberate attacks, not errant deeds. Having grown up in the city I always thought that cows give you one impression , but there's another side to every cow.
So what does one do with all this information? Release it and move on—
Did you know that cliffs were safer than stairs. Oh what is one to do with all this knowledge?
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