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This guys job is to walk on a mattress. No, seriously. His name is Reuben Reynoso and he’s a professional mattress walker. This is apparently the important, final step in making a mattress. I am not joking.
If you watch the video of Reynoso walking above, you wouldn’t be crazy to think that anyone could do that job. Sure Reynoso looks like a well-built walking machine with powerful footwork and solid weight-to-body distribution but… it’s walking on a bed. There’s a science to it though! Well, sort of. Reynoso says:
“It’s work. It’s not for everybody. There is a right way and a wrong way to do it.”
So I guess it’s not exactly a science. But still, there’s a purpose. Reynoso needs to walk on a mattress to “expertly compress no fewer than 28 layers of fluffy cotton batting while seeking to detect tiny lumps or other imperfections.”
The mattresses aren’t your run of the mill springs either, they’re handmade at the McRoskey mattress factory in San Francisco and retail for about £1720-odd. The walking on the mattress needs to be precise to make the cotton batting perfectly compressed but still fluffy and most importantly without any lumps. What a gig. Read more about the mattress making and walking process here. [Arbroath via Neatorama]
My ideal job would be finding a way for me to obsess about technology, write about it, without having to do anything else to fund my writing. Oh…
I remember reading an article about beds and bedding. It was a piece offering a glimpse into a world few people see and basically consisted of mattresses costing tens of thousands of pounds and bedding costing thousands, if not more. ‘The rich’ reasoned that it was a worthwhile investment considering how much time they spend sleeping during their lives as well as how important the quality of sleep is given how much money they make in their waking lives.
Sort of made my ikea mattress and supermarket bedding look ridiculous.