A Bay Area Moment: green mattresses and a pierced tush
August 13th, 2008
Sometimes I wonder, what is this blog about? The Internet is rife with parenting blogs and sites. How is SFGate’s different? This site is about parenting in the Bay Area. It’s about raising kids in this amazing yet often quirky place that we call home.
To promote this theme, I’m introducing a new feature called “A Bay Area Moment.” From time to time, I’ll write about an experience that would only happen in the Bay Area–and then I hope you’ll share your moments. This feature offers us the opportunity to celebrate and laugh at ourselves.
My kids and I had a Bay Area moment over the weekend. Here goes:
On Saturday, we bought a mattress (thanks to a generous donation from grandma) for Dante’s twin bed frame. I, the paranoid mother, didn’t want a mattress treated with toxic flame retardant so I spent Friday night researching green options. We finally decided to make our purchase at Keetsa, a San Francisco-based company that uses nontoxic flame retardants, recycled materials, and sustainable ingredients.
I called the store the following morning.
“Hi, I need a mattress. Do you have a twin in stock?”
“Well yeah, but we’ve got the Folsom Street Fair going on over here and I might close shop.” (A little background: Keetsa is located at Ninth and Folsom. The Folsom Street Fair is an S&M festival.)
“If I hop in the car right now, will you stay open? I need a mattress today.”
“Yah, come on over.”
We pulled up to Keetsa, which sits next to the entrance of the fair. As we were getting out of the car, a huge naked man rode by on his bike.
“Mom, why does that guy have a sock on his penis?” Paris asked.
“Um, well, um…”
“And Mom, why does he have rings sticking through his bottom?”
Only in the Bay Area would you see a man with pierced butt cheeks on your way to buy a mattress treated with sustainably grown green tea.
Anyone else have a Bay Area moment to share?
