Rule of 132 (Reports of it's death have been greatly exaggerated.)

Sunny days, sweeping the clouds away, on my way to where the air is sweet, can you tell me how to get, how to get to 'Rule of 132' Street! So it's now time for Matt. He could be paired with either Ken or Mimi, so I decided on the Madonna of the Digidestined, or Mimi. So the next pairing is Matt and Mimi. Enjoy a material girl performance from Mimi unlike any other!

DISCLAIMER: Digimon Adventure is not a property of Rave The Rich, and he makes nothing from doing this, either. Please do not flame.

(Chapter 54- Putting the Bed to Bed: Matt and Mimi)


Matt will admit to never believing in advertising. He and many others like him had good reason to do so. Any advertizer's main focus is to sell, sell, sell. This constant goading day in and day out from images that are force fed to him on the television screen, to billboards and pictures in the morning paper are enough to drive a man wild.

Reiterating; it is enough to drive a man wild. Women, however, are a completely different story. Take one night in particular with Matt and Mimi Ishida, a couple that has been married for almost one and one half years. Watch how they differ in terms of their beliefs in advertising, and how Matt's opinion on the matter doesn't really matter in the end.


"Hello," says a comforting voice from the television.

While Matt can only sulk while laying in the bed saying to himself 'Not this commercial again,' Mimi is all eyes and ears as she watches the woman sitting on the bed. A few words that mean very little to Matt are spoken and the commerical goes it intended length of sixty seconds before it goes to yet another advertisement.

After the commercial for a product known as the Sleep Number bed, Mimi quietly calls for her husband to which Matt asks "Yes, dear?"

"I want a Sleep Number bed," Mimi says silently but frankly.

Matt thinks to himself 'Oh Jesus', and then looks to his wife and tells her "Mimi...dearest? I don't see what's wrong with the bed that we have right now," and Matt emphasizes his point by pressing his fingers to the mattress. "See? It's our version of 'Old Reliable'. We've had some...memorable, dare I say legendary, hall of fame-like performances in this bed. Why would you want to hang up our...bed? Our bed, Mimi!"

Some seconds of silence pass, until Mimi looks down on the bed that Matt spoke so greatly about, until she finally says, or rather screams. "I want a Sleep Number bed, Matt!"


One week later, it came to the couple's door. 'It' is a King-sized Sleep Number bed, the type of bed that allows both partners to adjust the softness and firmness of each one's side of the bed with the higher numbers making the bed firmer and the lower numbers making the bed softer. Matt and Mimi cannot say enough good things about it, and are convincing all their friends and family to invest in one.

By the way, if you are wondering, Mimi has a number of 55, which is admittetly middle of the road in terms of softness and firmness, and Matt's sleep number is 25.

But nobody can blame him for this. Matt is quite the softie after all.


A/N: I'm back, folks! Re-energized and ready for the final 12 couples in this experimental project (on the Adventure side, of course. There's still a LOT more left to be accomplished).

The description for the Sleep Number bed should be self explanatory, but for anyone that would like to know more about it (this is not advertising, by the way) type in 'Sleep Number Bed' or something to that extent in your preferred search engine, and you will get your information.

As far as the couple of Matt and Mimi, they get the name of JackandDianeShipping, after the John Cougar Mellancamp song about 'two American kids growing up in the Heartland, and doing the best they can'. The song reminded me of them, you know?

Okay, drabble number 55 is next, and that means that there is no guesswork involved! Mimi and Joe is the next couple, and at the end of that drabble, find out Rave The Rich's dirty little secret about Joe. All I'll say is it ain't pretty. Until then, read, review and tell me what you think!