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Another pet peeve

So, here in my apartment the shower is fast working. Back home in Portland, when you pulled the little thingy to turn the shower on, it would take at least 5 seconds before water came out of the shower. But here, you turn the knob, and bang! water is coming out of that shower! Cold water. No matter what you do, cold water comes out of that thing instantly. Its awful, you wake up, strip down, and are freezing and then you get blasted with a stream of cold water.

I have actually figured out how to avoid it. I point the shower head down as far as I can, and then when I turn the knob, I move as quickly as I can to the back of the tub. But when you forget! Man! Its awful.

It just occurred to me that I could just start the shower running before I get into in. But for some reason I have just never liked that. I hate the sound of a shower running with out a person in it.

Anyway, I guess the point is that slow plumbing is nice!

29 April 2007 05:12am UTC • 559 views • 21 comments

Tagged with petpeeve, plumbing, showers

21 comments

Peon Peetie

29 April 2007 05:34pm UTC
back in the day, our shower would take at least 4 minutes to warm up. and 4 minutes is the perfect amount of time to take care of other business. thus, i got into the habit of pooping while waiting for the shower to warm up. since then, i've always used the morning for the three 'sh-es': shave, poop and shower.
Robert

29 April 2007 05:49pm UTC
I always get the temperature of the water adjusted before getting in.
flychipmunk

29 April 2007 08:51pm UTC
Yeah...I let the water warm up too, but I always feel weird about it b/c I'm wasting water. I turn the water off multiple times during my showers (when I'm putting shampoo/conditioner in; when I'm scrubbing my body; when I shave; basically anytime the water isn't actually being used to rinse something off). But...cold showers are actually better for you than hot ones...the cold sends blood to your organs instead of drawing it out to the surface where if you have any aches or pains increasing blood flow will increase inflammation and pain. Also...hot showers make you more sluggish. One of my assignments for hydrotherapy was to make the last 2-4 minutes of my showers cold for a week and note how it affected me. You should try it!
Dread Pirate Benjamin

29 April 2007 09:30pm UTC
How cold are we talking about here? Like completely turning off the hot?
flychipmunk

30 April 2007 12:09am UTC
Well, I usually start off w/ warm and gradually get to either no hot water or where the hot is just a little bit on. Drastic changes are always difficult so I try to avoid them as much as possible.
Dread Pirate Benjamin

30 April 2007 03:13am UTC
Now, if I don't shower more than like a couple times a week, should I actually do this for seven showers, or still just a week? Or should I shower more often? :)
flychipmunk

30 April 2007 04:13pm UTC
That made me laugh...I would say do it for seven showers. No need to shower more often...I've never noticed that you stink (except when you were passing gas and unsuccessfully tried to contain it under a blanket).
Dread Pirate Benjamin

30 April 2007 09:34pm UTC

I don't know what you are talking about. I don't think I have ever farted.

And this website is just full of things to try in the shower!
flychipmunk

1 May 2007 04:29pm UTC
so...I tried the shower in the dark thing. I liked it. I've always liked wandering around in the dark. I hit my right elbow on the wall and shower knob about 4 times. Also, I was a little frustrated b/c I couldn't see the hair on my hand and it was really hard to get it off. Here is my dilemma: I always check the shower for spiders and centipedes before I get in...am I allowed to do this and then turn out the light? Well, that is what I did...also, do you take your clothes off in the dark as well...and after exiting the shower do you turn the light on or continue to get ready in the dark? I felt like showering in the dark kind of put me in a meditative state b/c I had to become more aware of my whole body and objects around me. Oh...and about farting...my friend Mel used to claim to never fart, but I caught her on my tape recorder. You can't actually hear the fart, but you can hear Hol's response and she is like a fart detector; she also had the magical farting floor. Sorry my comments don't have anything to do w/ the topic of slow plumbing...
Boatswain The Fool

1 May 2007 10:49pm UTC

An unrelated series of thoughts in an unordered list (impossibilities times two!) :
- About two years ago, I started trying to shower without using hot water during the summer. During the winter, I'm afraid to do it because rumor has it that things are cold enough as it is. But, I suppose I might try a cold winter shower, if someone were to so incline me. I find the cold summer showers a lot of fun, even if they are extremely scary right before I get in and start thinking, "With one twist of a nob, my life could soon become about ten times less shivery." In case you were wondering why I am talking at such length about myself, it is because I like wasting your time, and I have a huge ego.
- I keep forgetting to shower in the dark. I hear that it makes you smarter, though I've forgotten where I heard that... Also, to answer flychipmunk: I tried to do as much as possible in the dark. At one point, I would start in my room, fully clothed and holding the clothes into which I wanted to change, then close my eyes, walk into the shower, undress, shower, redress, and walk back to the same position in my room. Eventually, in theory, one could spread this back even more, so that you could close your eyes on the way home, then walk inside, spend an hour listening to TV, play around on the Internet (or whatever it is you can hear), then go into your room, choose clothes, go into the shower, get undressed, shower, get dressed, go back into your room, trip over your computer (or a spider), lie there until the morning, and open your eyes only once you have left the house again. This, this is the only way to become a Real Super Genius. (Aside: for centipedes and spiders, there are other solutions.
- "There are other solutions" was supposed to point to a product called the 'spider and centipede detector,' that beeps whenever you're around a spider or centipede, but apparently, that has not been invented yet.
- Benjamin: I think that the reason that you are confused about flychipmunk's farting accusation is that most of us breathe out of our noses, not our butts.
Dread Pirate Benjamin

2 May 2007 01:34am UTC

Flychipmunk: if you ever stray from the topic of conversation again I will... *Benjamin storms off muttering to himself*

Oh speaking of which, is anyway excited about all the trilogies being wrapped up this summer?
Dread Pirate Benjamin

2 May 2007 01:38am UTC
That was supposed it be "is anyone way excited" I can see how you could have gotten confused. I was muttering.
Boatswain The Fool

2 May 2007 02:19am UTC
My way is super excited. Of course, you might not put much stock in its opinion, since, according to popular opinion, the alternative to it is a highway...
The Anonymous Poppy

3 May 2007 10:58pm UTC
Interestingly enough, you don't seem all that excited about one of the trilogies being wrapped up, Benji. Personally, I was excited about PotC:AWE, until I saw a preview. Now I'm really ramping up for disappointment. What do you all think about movies that weren't really meant to have sequels, but get them anyway?
Dread Pirate Benjamin

5 May 2007 05:58am UTC
I am still pretty excited about them usually. Mostly what gets me excited about a movie is who is in it. And so if I liked the first one then usually the sequels have the same people. And I am excited about Spiderman 3, I just am going to try and wait till it comes out on video or to the dollar theatre. I am just trying to think of it as having a much later release date!
Peon Peetie

5 May 2007 03:27pm UTC
one of my favorite movies is the sequel to the lowest grossing movie to ever have a sequel. i don't think they were planning on making it. great movie though
Boots

6 May 2007 03:10pm UTC
Boatswain, your dream of a spider/centipede detector? Thoroughly impractical. It would be buzzing/yelping/arrring all the time, since you are no more than three feet away from a spider at all times.
Boatswain The Fool

6 May 2007 10:12pm UTC
Sure, but a kid can always dream, can't he? Also, the wealthier spiders will all probably invest in anti-detector helmets anyway...
Boots

6 May 2007 10:37pm UTC
..and the wealthiest will get the matching shoes (I hear they go for 8 pence a piece).
flychipmunk

15 May 2007 12:21am UTC
Dread Pirate Benjamin, how did the cold showers go?
Dread Pirate Benjamin

15 May 2007 01:22am UTC
I will be answering that very question tonight!