davywavy | American Statistics [2]

According to the injuries list in the book of American statistics, every year 400,000 Americans are injured by "Beds, Bedding, and Coverings". These aren't trivial things; the almanac only lists injuries serious enough to occasion a trip to the hospital.
Now, when I go to the States, I tend to be leery of the fact that I'm twelve times more likely to be shot and five times more likely to be robbed or raped than I am at home. I look askance at the tommy-gun vending machines in schoolyards, wondering if it's such a great idea that escaped mental patients should have a constitutional right to own automatic weaponry. Danger, in the Americas, seems to surround me.
However, it's a real eye-opener to discover that every year one person in every 600 on the North American continent has to take a trip to the out-patients room after an incident involving their sheets and pillows.
When I'm in my hotel room there are rare occasions when I use my bed for the purpose it was intended for, but my behaviour may be modified by this piece of trivia. Had I known that my bed was not just apt to be dangerous but might even actively go for me, I might have been more circumspect in the past.
Reasoning that there is safety in numbers, from now on whenever I cross the Atlantic I'm going to be looking for people to share my bed. For safety reasons, obviously.

And that's my excuse.