Posted on 02/08/2014 5:07:52 PM PST by JoeProBono
SOCHI, Russia, A Minnesota businessman says he hopes to alleviate one of the many pains in the neck to surface at the Sochi Olympics -- a shortage of pillows for athletes.
Mike Lindell, founder and chief executive officer of My Pillow, said he had heard rumblings of the shortage and was even called by a Chicago radio station, asking if his company would intervene.
Lindell agreed and has readied a shipment of 3,000 pillows to be sent via FedEx to Sochi, the (Minneapolis) Star-Tribune reported Saturday.
The only problem -- he doesn't know where to send them.
Multiple shipping addresses have been offered and he's heard Russian officials are stopping shipments headed for the games.
The pillow shortage became public when Russian citizens were told by government officials they would take people's pillows and give them to athletes and international media staying at the Olympic village.
Complaints have poured in since people began arriving in Russia this week of shabby hotel accommodations, poor logistical planning and even a missing Olympic ring that malfunctioned during Friday's opening ceremony.
You carry your own pillow on international trips or anywhere else? Weird.
Obama gives the orders and our media obey.
Obama and his boot lickers are idiots!!
Invest in pillow manufacturers!
You don't?!!! yuk
Do you know how that hotel pillow was used by the previous occupants of the room? Pillows aren't just for sleeping. A changed pillow case only covers up dried bodily fluids in the pillow.
I'd guess you would think twice about renting used sneakers, why not a pillow?
You bet..Should be a interesting Olympic to say the least...
Brazil has one of the highest crime rates in the world...murder, gang violence, kidnapping, mugging, petty thief and of course rampant drug use and trafficking...
You’d think they’d have packed their own pillows so they’d have a good nights’ sleep.
I buy my clothes at the thrift store; they’re all used.
Homosexuals hardest hit!
Nothing to bite during sex...
My ex-wife did. She was allergic to feather pillows, and most of the small European hotels only had the down pillows. I spend few miserable nights traveling around Germany until we were able to find a shop that sold anti-allergic pillows.
You’re missing my point.
You can put on clean clothes over a dirty body.
A clean pillow case is put over a dirty pillow.
Clothes are washed and thus rendered clean. Same goes for pillow cases. The pillows are not cleaned, washed, disinfected. They are only covered with a clean pillow case which smells heavenly covering up a multitude of “stains”. The stains entered the pillow and permeated the foam or down which wasn’t cleaned. You’d want to rest your head on those?
Well that’s not weird; it’s rational. The other reason for doing it is O-C and highly eccentric.
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