The Worst Job in Dallas

Posted on September 26th, 2011 1:16pm by Tim Rogers
Filed under Local News

StatlerWhile having lunch at Main Street Garden today, I espied workers carrying old mattresses out of the Statler Hotel. Looks like the new owners are getting busy. Here’s the thing: that has to be the worst job ever. First, it’s warm today. No AC in the old building. Second, we’re talking hotel mattresses. Think about the last time you stayed in a hotel. What did you do atop your mattress? Multiply that by the number of guests the room has accommodated. Shine a black light on it, and that mattress would look like Jackson Pollock painting, if you catch my drift. Now imagine leaving that mattress in an abandoned building for a few years, with pigeons and homeless people roosting on the mattresses.

The men loading those mattresses onto that trailer? American heroes.

12 comments

  1. And we created more jobs in Texas! Go Perry!

    @ 1:20 pm on September 26, 2011

  2. Is it a coincidense that on the same day the statler is empty its old worn out mattresses that VVM is emptying out the sportatorium

    http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/sportatorium/2011/09/rip_sportatorium_my_top_10_fin.php

    on a side note, I open to being filled up

    @ 1:29 pm on September 26, 2011

  3. check out this series of videos from Dirty Jobs about a mattress recycler
    http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/dirty-jobs-mattress-recycler/

    @ 1:37 pm on September 26, 2011

  4. You hope they had a pest guy kill off the beasties before they dragged ‘em out into the light and set ‘em free in downtown Dallas. They’ll catch the DART bus for the new convention hotel in a New York minute.

    @ 1:42 pm on September 26, 2011

  5. grosssssssssss, tim.

    @ 1:46 pm on September 26, 2011

  6. I just ate lunch…those guys need to be in hazmat suits. Just like when I was a flight attendant for Southwest.

    @ 2:59 pm on September 26, 2011

  7. Real American Heroes,
    Mr. J–m-covered Mattress Load-er!

    @ 3:39 pm on September 26, 2011

  8. FYI, you misspelled a word on the second line. I think you meant ’spied’

    @ 8:21 am on September 27, 2011

  9. @proofread: Get ready to have your mind blown. Espy this.

    @ 8:48 am on September 27, 2011

  10. Oh, the stories that a DNA lab could tell with those mattresses…

    @ 10:56 am on September 27, 2011

  11. There is no way I’d ever click on that Dirty Jobs video — I’d probably never sleep in another hotel! And that’s just not practical…

    @ 1:12 pm on September 27, 2011

  12. What I want to know is: Where are those mattresses going? Will they be (perish the thought) recycled, or is the hotel committing mattresscide?

    @ 11:45 am on September 28, 2011

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