We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember snipped-for-privacy@care2.com saying something like:
I see what you're getting at, but the pattress has always been just the wooden plate and the term 'pattress box' refers only to the surface box that would screw onto it. Lazy diction has led to a generation simply calling them patresses, missing the 'box' off - this may be worse in some parts of the country than others. Best to stick with the proper, traditional terms - damnit, we need standards these days.