A: The first one that I slept in was on a geography field trip. It was made of metal and it would squeak and shake badly every time somebody sat on it. And then there’s the inevitable time when you wake up and smack your head on either the ceiling or the bottom of the top bunk.Then I slept on a couple of wooden ones this summer when I went to Europe. Those didn’t shake, but they did creak a lot, one of them sounded like it was about to give way at any time.
The ladders on all of them were plain stupid. the rungs were positioned in some stupid way that meant you couldn’t climb them properly (not unless you wanted to either break them or fall off), that meant that you had to step on them in a way that kills your feet.
And also I’d be the sort of person who’d get up in the middle of the night to get a drink or go to the toilet, forget that I’m in a bunk, fall off and crash through the floor (I weigh 82-85 KG). Though it’s worse being at the bottom because you can’t sleep due to the fact that you’d be wondering when you’ll be crushed when the bed above buckles.
Q: How many death trap chairs have you owned?