The Air Bed Tire Test
by Zube (zube@stat.colostate.edu) 
Created:  Sep 25, 2011
Updated:  Sep 25, 2011
http://www.stat.colostate.edu/~zube/air.txt

While shopping for a new bed, you might consider an air bed and
eventually decide that it is the answer to all your sleep prayers.

Take my advice.  Before you buy one and spend a ridiculous amount
of money on plastic, foam, rubber, air and a compressor, do the
following:

1) buy a new automobile tire
2) put the tire right next to your bed, taking care that you get a whiff 
   of the new tire smell with every breath
3) go to sleep

If you wake up in the morning feeling happy and well-rested, an
air bed might be for you.

On the other hand, if you wake up with a wicked headache and the
room is spinning from all the chemical fumes you've been inhaling for
the past eight hours, you might consider sticking to a normal bed.

While normal beds also release gases when they are new, they are
*nothing* like the toxic cloud that we inhaled yesterday.  My wife
got the worst of it and she is still suffering.  Even dumping it in
the cellar wasn't enough.  We had to wrap the bits up in plastic
and tape them shut to be able to function in our house again.
So much for that pile of cash.

So, please do the Air Bed Tire Test before you buy an air bed.
The money you save may be your own.