To buy a single bed is to publicly admit you don’t have a sex life, and that you don’t envisage having one in the near or even distant future (beds last a long time these days, way beyond the guarantee date; it’s a matter of five, ten or even twenty years; this is a serious investment, which commits you in practical terms for the rest of your days; beds last on an average much longer than marriages, as is well-known). Even the purchase of a 140-centimetre bed makes you pass for a stingy and narrow petit-bourgeois; in the salesmen’s eyes the 160-centimetre bed is the only one really worth
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