spellchecks and showers
by D.O.
Remember that list of 75 things I like? I think it was the most crowd-pleasing event on online diary for the masses since the Chinese Haircut piece. Well ever since I made that list public, I’ve been thinking of things that I like even more than those things, and I feel bad that they didn’t make the list. Problem is, I don’t exactly always have the chance to stop what I’m doing (normally taking a shower) and write these thoughts on anything. Things like how much I enjoy it when I click the spellcheck button and a box comes up saying “No Misspelled Words Found.”
Now this post is going to take a turn I wasn’t planning on at first: shower talk. Here we go.
I can’t stand showers with lousy water pressure. I’m all about conserving water, but I don’t think a trickling shower head is the answer. My current shower head emits 2.5 gallons per minute. I think that’s fair.
I can’t understand shower heads that are level with my chest. I haven’t come across many of these in my life, but I have a couple times, and it really baffles me. Who’s idea was it to put a shower head at a ten-year-old’s eye level?
The afore mentioned problem of epiphanies in the shower that somehow stay in the shower, not to be remembered again when I’m actually able to write them down. That kind of stuff always happens either in the shower or while I’m mowing the yard. Neither are good times to write.
Cloth shower curtains: Again I ask, who’s idea was that? Why would we make a shower curtain that absorbs water? It’s beyond me.
I think that’s all for Shower Talk. I sincerely hope that you won’t stop reading my blog now that you’ve experienced what may be the most unorganized, random post in the history of this site.
Comments
when you find out who’s idea it was to put midget showers in non-midget people’s houses…. let me know. i’d like to have a word with this person. everytime i got in the shower back in fort worth, i thought about this alleged wacko who thought i’d actually enjoy doing gymnastics just to wash my hair. i mean, honestly. i think that’s why i enjoyed going to friends’ houses… to shower and stand up straight at the same time. now… of course growing up in this type of shower, i grew into it slowly… not realizing until it was too late that this was not normal! college was great. great shower… for the most part… right hay? then i had to go and move to thailand…. the land of little people. i have a little person shower again. but, it doesn’t stop there. my car is little (i bump my head), shoes here are little (they barely fit me), food portions are little (probably a good thing), shirts are little (i now wear an XXL), driving lanes are so little they’re non-existant (i have to share with four motor bikes surrounding me), thai people are little (they call white people fat). it’s a fun land of little people. my dream: to one day have a big girl shower…. that would be fun.