Good points, all! I shall cancel the CL order. (If I were buying the mattress from him too it would work out to be much cheaper, but NYC has a bedbug problem so used mattresses scare me.)

We just not a new mattress since our very old one was giving DW back trouble. One of the places we went to check prices was Nebraska Furniture Mart. It was the first time I went there and it was something. It's like an indoor shopping mall, but it's all a single store.

Anyhow we didn't get it there since the small store actually cost a little less. Also, they delivered it across town about six hours after we bought it.

I'm sad they changed the five, too, Connie. I liked the ones from before. But cherry is my OTLS as well.

I had a tour of Nebraska Furniture Mart as part of my grad school trip to meet Warren Buffet! It was kind of amazing, especially coming from NYC grad school land.... And the business itself is a good story -- I'm pretty sure it was founded by the matriarch of the family that still runs it.

I don't remember what the red ones taste like. I always go for the purple first in any offering, if there's no chocolate. I have a terrible need to keep my mouth busy at work. I don't ever buy candy at home, but I do dip into the shared bowls here when I walk by. If they're purple enough.

I thought the yellow might be lemon because it was so bitter. Even more unrelated to the purported source than the purple.

Driving up to it was something too, there were many entrances with signs indicating what was close to the entrance. It was akin to going to a KCI airport gate.

Since the KCI airport doesn't mean much to most people. At this airport you can essentially drive up to your gate when dropping someone off or picking them up.

I'm getting the bed and the mattress from Gothic Cabinet Craft - since they mostly sell platform beds, their single mattresses are cheaper than dedicated mattress stores (which have good deals on sets but not on mattresses alone). And they have a very clear how-much-do-stairs-cost policy.

I hate the red Life Savers. Bad experiences with cherry cough syrup as a toddler seems to have turned me off any cherry flavored hard candy.

edit for clarity....

Bad experiences with cherry cough syrup as a toddler seems to have turned me off any cherry flavored hard candy.

For me, it's congesprin and orange flavored stuff.

There's a regional candy manufacturer that does old-fashioned candy that gets sold in wooden barrel halves in local stores. They've got horehound and sassafras and root beer and licorice and a very nice wild cherry. I have to monitor my purchase of those very carefully.