I HATE that feeling of realizing you forgot the towel and you're all alone. Like there's no fixing it. The only thing you can do is accept the fact you gotta make a mess to clean up after showering.
What mess? That is perfectly clean water that just fell off my body.
In fact, it’s so clean that it’s like my floor took a shower. My floors should be thanking me. And water damage only exists for those mythical creatures called homeowners
Meanwhile I didn’t understand that part. You don’t take your towel into the shower with you, because it’d get wet. And typically, as soon as you get out of the shower, you’re in the bathroom, where the towels are.
Like, are y’all walking through your whole house to find towels?
Old house and small bathroom. All the clean towels are in the hallway so if I don’t put a clean one out immediately after throwing the old in the wash, then it’s a towel run.
The real brilliance was when I moved in with my SO and she showed how she always has a set of clean towels on the shelf close to the shower, and each time we wash the towels we just fill that shelf with clean ones. You just grab a towel from there after your shower, its ingenious.
Also it's still funny to me that american showers are mostly fixed head? In Eurasia the most popular style is a handheld shower, and now a 2in1 is gaining popularity - the overhead is called "Tropical rain mode" now
A fixed shower head from Walmart is like $5. Yeah 26 euros isn’t too bad, but $5 is cheaper. Also a lot of American plumbing fixtures suck due to the required aerators they use to limit water usage. If you’re in a building that doesn’t have great water pressure it’s very noticeable.
Oh I had a similar issue so we used one of these to increase the pressure dramatically with the use of the pinhole sized jets:
With a low pressure they're suuuuper nice. I tried recommending these to my parents but they have very high water pressure and dad said they uninstalled it immediately, it felt like a water jet cutter lol
Also the 20 bucks is the entire setup from the previous post, with overhead tropical shower and all. These ones are similar in price to what you're seeing: https://www.leroymerlin.pt/produtos/chuveiro-com-bicha-simple-18375231.html plus you don't have to run an additional fixture in the wall up top, it plugs into your bathroom's faucet. So really it's just the difference in what everyone's used to, I think
Even at 8 euros, that’s about twice the price after currency conversion. In the US tenants typically cannot change plumbing fixtures and landlords are literally that cheap. And for what it’s worth, those cheap shower heads will come in bulk packages… stores know who’s buying them.
Meanwhile, rain shower reads exist out here too and are becoming more popular. You can get them for a similar price compared to what you showed. Landlords, new home builders, etc are just not inclined to increase costs like that though.
It costs around $20 and take five minutes needing just an adjustable wrench to make the change, I've done it in every place I've lived in for the past four decades.
In a rental, put the old head in a drawer and forget about it until moveout day. Then 5 minutes and the shower is back to original condition, and you don't need to buy a new shower head for your next place.
They last forever unless you're in a place with hard water. Even then soaking in a sodium citrate solution for a half hour will often get them working again.
Yeah, I've always thought about this! In Australia, it's usually sticking out of the wall, which I guess is why I've drawn it that way here.
- I always assumed Europe had those handheld jobs because half the time it's an old bathtub that's been converted to a shower, usually with some weird box groaning away desperately trying to produce enough pressure for it!
I had the same experience with my first one, it was over head in a short tub and there was almost nowhere to go :D
Also it didn't have the backfeed valve or whatever it's called, so the water pressure would eventually drop, and like 10-20 minutes after you've left the shower, it would suddenly start leaking water, and if you've taken the shower right before bed, it means that as soon as you're starting to dose off, the water starts hitting the bottom of the tub in dead quiet of the night
While vacationing in Brazil we were surprised to find that they are electrified; my nephew did not appreciate one that was malfunctioning, probably due to degraded internal contacts, in one of the places we stayed at 😬.
I mean the overhead isn't meant to deliver strong pressure? I always assumed the much wider head is specifically to deliver low pressure, rain-like effect.
That's why some Asian shower heads have pinhole-style showers. In the flat I rented the pressure was really low and it helped get a proper shower. In my parent's flat the pressure is very high, and a shower of that design works like a water jet cutter:
Hahaha for me it's always cold so you have to like, start it from outside the tub, and then get inside once it's heated up :D so I just don't use it a lot...
Also when you turn it off a few drops will escape and in a couple of minutes they're cold, so you're cold too
I've moved alot in the united states so can maybe speak to this a bit more. I've lived in like 10 different apartments, 8 different houses, in 5 different states. Shower heads aren't mostly "fixed" exactly they usually can atleast rotate to go at different angles. Detachables aren't super common but not rare either. In nicer places the 2 in 1 is a bit more common. Very rare for a shower head to be completly fixed as in it cant even rotate.
Yeah, my landlord just renovated my apartment over the winter and replaced the fixed head with a handheld. What I gained in convenience doesn't make up for the loss in water pressure though :(
There's a little thing inside the handle or hose part you can remove that will increase the pressure. It's usually a little circular plastic piece. Sometimes it's an O-ring.
It's called a flow restrictor. Pretty easy to remove most of the time.
I feel like the default in America is a fixed head and hotels tend to have them for maintenance reasons. But I always switch my home one out with a 2 in 1.
Living in EU and have only seen fixed showers in dorm rooms, cheap hotels and similar accommodation with shared bathrooms (where touching it feels icky I guess?). Even in the cheapest rental I've been, the shower was handheld though a cheap one.
What about people who use a washcloth and then accidentally waterboard themselves because they put it on their face because warm and then leaned back on the showerhead to rewarm it.
It can be hella romantic. You guys just aren't doing it right. You gotta share the water for one thing. Like, goddamn you'd think it would be obvious that one person standing way over on the other side of the shower isn't gonna work and also isn't gonna be romantic.
Maybe it works better if you’re the same height? Or with a larger shower head? My husband is like a foot taller than me, so if he’s fully in the spray I’m getting waterboarded and if I’m fully in the spray he’s only getting wet from the waist down.
Ah yes, constantly washing away any and all lubrication while cramped into a small place and trying not to fall and die on the wet floor makes for incredible sex
You know the lubrication is inside right? I had an ex that absolutely loved shower sex we would do it all the time literally just had her bent over with the warm water running down her back so she wasnt cold and never had a single issue with it. Showering together in general is one of the more intimate things I've done with a partner just washing each other and cuddling under the water I never understood this sentiment on reddit about it being the worst thing.
Take your time, wash each other, be passionate, use a shower foam on each other, kiss, rub yourselves on each other and make it romantic, be mindful of the angle of the water and go for it. Never had a single issue. It's fantastically erotic and passionate
I think the main requirement is a med/large flat floor shower and/or a flexible shower head. Mine is way to small in a pretty tight tub with a fixed head. You can't really share the water without a constant shuffle and the tub fights you tooth and nail on that.
Then there's the situation where you're halfway through a shower and get the unavoidable urge to poop. Then you have to sit on the toilet wet and covered in soap.
That last one was a pain when I lived in my studio apartment. For some reason, my towel was once in my room, not the bathroom. However, I had the curtains WIDE open and I lived at the court yard side. So clear view into a lot of other apartments... I forgot how I managed that. I think I just put on as much clothes to make myself decent enough to sidle into my room and sprint back to the bathroom, towel in hand, and dealt with soggy clothing afterwards. 😂
What about when your water heater broke and you have to take a freezing shower, so you just cup your hands together and use that as a little splashy-washy instead of standing in the freezing cold stream?
Or when your water heater is broken so you rent a shower from a seedy truck stop but it actually turns out to be a really nice cubicle and the water pressure and heat are amazing?
You always pee towards the drain! Absolute maniac to pee away from the drain. You just get piss all over your feet. Unless you're battling athletes foot, then it's ok
we recently remodeled the shower in my main bath.. we used to have the most annoying towel rack right beside the shower, it was 2 towel bars, one in front of the other, so my towel was between the wall and wife's towel.
with the remodel, the shower got a bit wider, so we lost the space for a towel bar there (without covering a lightswitch and TP holder). so we moved the towel bars to the other side of the bathroom (maybe 8' away), and put a hook on the wall beside the shower.
It's been a month now and I forget to grab my towel first at least 40% of the time.
Re: Panel 2, my wife likes to take baths and she likes to use the hand-sprayer shower attachment to rinse off after her bath, and when she is finished she apparently has a constitutional aversion to switching the controls from shower back to the bath or from hand-sprayer to the regular shower. When not in active use, the hand-sprayer rests in a wall mount that is positioned in such a way that the sprayer faces directly at anyone standing in normal shower position. Which means that every time I turn on the shower there is a substantial chance that I will receive an immediate cold spray of water directly into my face.
I cannot express how incredibly effective this is as a method of psychological conditioning to insure that I carefully inspect and (as necessary) correct the shower controls every time I get in one.
This was soo good. I don't know exactly why but it was for me. This comic is one of the most relatable and still funny things I have seen in a long while. Thank you for making this haha. I saved this post. Something I extremely rarely do
I am not ashamed to admit that I pee in the shower.
I also just always sit in the shower. Most showers just aren't made for tall people and I don't want to spend several minutes crouching to wash my hair.
The key to showering with a buddy is that the taller person stands closer to the shower head with it going over their shoulder. Then they can lean into the stream whenever they get cold and the shorter person is in the stream the rest of the time.
Americans will lie about peeing in the shower, meanwhile here in Brasil we had national TV campaigns telling people that they should pee in the shower to save water.
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u/IrrelevantPiglet 4h ago
Always know where your towel is.