losing sleep
TOP SHEETS MUST GO BY ELEANOR ROBERTSON
Top-sheet debate belongs to a subset of fraught conflicts regarding people’s unconscious daily habits. It’s in the same category as ‘should you store your glasses right-way-up or upside-down in the cupboard?’ and ‘are you supposed to actively wash your legs in the shower or is the dripped-down soap from your underarms good enough?’ The answer to these questions is stamped indelibly onto your brain from a young age, when you watched your parents do it one way or the other. The suggestion that anyone performs these practices differently than you do causes the defensive mechanisms in your mind to wake up screaming, like someone’s just poured a bucket of cold water over their heads. “Are you saying my parents were WRONG
