Back in the day when I was peddling luxury goods to those who ought to have better taste, a nap in the men’s shoe storeroom was never out of the question whilst I was performing an impromptu “stocktake”. Pushing a stool against the door and leaning against it would ward off detection and quick post-disco nap of half an hour would see that I didn’t fall face first into a cabinet of overtly monogrammed leather goods. Genius!
Times have changed and the days of the three-day bender are well-and-truly far behind me, but it doesn’t mean that Mondays are any less difficult to manage. When Thursday became the new Friday, and Sunday the new Saturday, things started to get hectic again, with a bleary-eyed start to the week commonplace and always regrettable come 3pm. Enter the Wrap-A-Nap—part pillow, part blindfold, part earmuff—this simply ridiculous invention is just made for the inner trashbag in all of us. Available for $14.99 in an array of colours, you can look just like this guy, except without the flip-flops in the office thing, one hopes.
Published on 7 February 2011 by Agony Uncle