A quick warning, there are curse words that are unbeaped in today's episode of the show.

If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org.

From WBZChicago, it's this American Life on my own class.

Why aren't you more mad?

I think I'm just too tired to be mad.

It's like when I think of it, I get exhausted, I get a little desperate.

I can feel like a little bit like, I feel a little bit like underwater.

This is my co-workers, Sean Cole, who's a producer here on the radio show.

And the thing that brought him to this state is a bed.

A bed he does not have.

He ordered it back in September when I moved to a new apartment.

This is where I've been sleeping.

Since I moved in on the floor on my old mattress, awaiting my new bed.

Just be clear, the mattress for the new bed arrived right away after he ordered it.

He's rolled up like a burrito near the window.

The issue is the bed frame and the headboard.

There's still AWOL, undelivered, absent, four months after ordering.

And I'm talking to Sean about this because today's program is about all kinds of different

sorts of run-arounds.

And he is in the middle of a sort of classic one, one lots of his experience.

For the record, the bed that he ordered is a queen-sized bed from the Casper online store.

As a podcast producer, he told me he felt like a living cliche ordering a product that

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