non-euclidean geometry in the bedroom

[kaberett]

A couple of months ago I wound up seeing a tumblr post about The Burrito Method of getting a duvet into its cover[1], and promptly went !!! because I got myself a superking when I moved to London (a grown-up duvet for my first double bed!) and have Loathed changing its cover ever since.

The first time I experimented with it, I did it solo. The second time, I asked A if he would like to Share An Experience.

So we laid out the duvet cover, and we laid out the duvet, and we rolled it up, and I said "and now you invert the corners!" and wound up staring at my hands in confusion while I tried to remember exactly how the magic works. It was at this point that A started Voicing His Doubts about how this could Possibly Work.

Hold-on-give-me-a-moment I muttered, or something like that, and did the corner trick. A was still going "this geometry doesn't work. this doesn't work? this cannot work." as I started unrolling again.

A stunned silence Developed. Briefly. And Then Came The Denouncements Of This Witchcraft, followed by some more silence and a thousand-yard stare while he tried and failed to work out what in the name of fuck had just happened, geometrically speaking, and long story short-ish I'm not saying he's safeworded non-Euclidean etc but also...

[1] ugh okay edited to be a link from further down the reblog chain that does work, as opposed to the one that doesn't grump grump :-p

Comments

[fyreharper]

It’s one fewer syllable and rolls off the tongue more easily? (Source: grew up calling them comforter covers, then spent a lot of time with someone who calls them duvets/duvet covers and now it’s a toss-up which comes out verbally… but only for the cover; the comforter is still consistently a comforter because *why change??*)