“The waterbed trend was similar to the fulfillment movement, in the sense that you paid for something that was supposed to bring you happiness, but you wound up with something less fulfilling, in this case motion sickness and water damage.”

—  Dave Barry

Source: Nonfiction, Dave Barry Turns 50 (1998), p. 142

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