Sometime in the mid 1980s my parents got me a bunk bed. (Photo of said bed is to the right with me and my cousin with an inflatable General Lee). In retrospect the bed provided good memories during my elementary age years. I slept on the bottom bunk mostly. I can remember watching Late Night with David Letterman on a Sony Watchman during the summer. I guess it had not dawned on me that I could have requested a television for my room like most other kids my age had at the time.
Eventually the bed was disassembled and put into storage. After many years of nonuse, the bed has been reassembled for my nephew to use. He’s 3 years old and oh so proud of his big boy bed. I don’t think he understands that it used to be his uncle’s bed. When you ask him who’s bed it is he shouts out “John’s Bed!”
In any case I’m glad it is being used again, giving my nephew good memories as it did for me.