I give myself knife hands over my body before going for the towel. Towel stays significantly more dry and I can use it several times before it needs a wash.

I squeegee my whole body with my hands before stepping out

It's a good thing she's not single, I would hate being in a relationship with your wife!

I dry myself completely while still in the shower and it's a mystery to me why not everybody is doing this.

Am I the only one who lays a towel out on the floor in front of the shower? This thread has me thinking what I thought was standard practice might not be.

A (very smart and educated) girlfriend once told me it was so smart how I actually dry off my body with the towel instead of just wrap myself and wait for myself to dry naturally. We only have 4 limbs.

She reminds me of my 3rd ex wife.

G7gyvcfuh vgyufdgvggg ggy

"I am dumbass, quit soaking the bathroom."

Oh shit, I do that too! Never occurred to me to stand there and drip for a minute. 😅

I do this out of habit

That's a really shitty way to talk about your partner. Is this supposed to be funny or something? I'm neurodivergent and can't tell

So I may be incredibly high right now, but I've watched all of The Office at least 5 times now and this scene sounds entirely unfamiliar to me. Is it a deleted scene or something? Because that shit sounds hilarious and I'd love to see it.

And thats what we call gaslighting!

Very cool, very funny, very good behavior!

/s

Bested by an 8 year-old. What utter humiliation.

I'm a professor and require students to submit typed homework as either docx or pdf format - a student wrote their paper in Word, took a screenshot of it (including their desktop), then saved the screenshot in pdf format.

I wouldn't equate that to not realising you can let the shower warm up. Not even close.

The programmer in me died when I read #3

Don't correct the trainer and reap the benefits, I guess... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

The best thing about Excel is the look of hatred you get when using ctrl+; in front of someone who's been manually entering the date through their entire career.

The perfect bathmat is one of those brown fibre door mats, the kind people also use to get their car out of the snow. Always feels dry, never slips, and lasts for years.

That's what bath mats are for..

My boss will purposely screen shot text he writes so I have to rewrite it and not copy paste… not fun.

The tree of knowledge is enormous. We’re all bound to miss a thing or two. Most people might not ever come across a situation where they are missing that knowledge or they live their whole lives not realizing. Fuck I wonder how many things I haven’t realized yet?

I always wash with cold water, but that's just because I'm impatient. Unless I'm about to get intimate with my SO, then my hands gotta be warm.

I think it’s a little more nuanced. If it wasn’t a problem for you then I see no reason to question your intelligence, if it was a big problem and you didn’t see the obvious solution, then I’d be willing to agree with your reasons

These people must not have parents 🤯

It wasn’t until he got comfortable enough with his partner that when she saw him

Unless it's your kink, most people don't use the toilet in front of their spouse.

Edit: It sounds like a lot of straight people expel waste in front of their partners.

Every accusation is a projection.

Everybody's response to him that knows you can use warm/hot water, "Oh yeah. That's totally the worst part about washing dishes!"

some people have posted photos of showers in modern upscale hotels, walk-in showers that have a hole through the glass for you to stand safe & warm & dry outside, reach through the hole from the outside to turn on the water.

My aunt and uncle had a walk in where the controls were by the door instead of under the shower head. I always thought that was brilliant.

This would honestly be a reasonable enough excuse on why the OP was set in his ways from something like this. Once you're conditioned to something it takes a hold on you. How often does a person really question a habit they learned at a really early age?

Design > function

An alternative solve is to get a handheld shower head so you can point it away from you while it heats up.

This is a great tip actually, the water heater in my house is on the opposite end of both bathrooms but close to the kitchen/laundry so it takes forever to get hot water in the bathroom

I think I will start doing this.

I use mine for my humidifiers

Where did the sofa soda go?

Oh my god I have to watch this tonight

I can't do that. If I mess a word up the whole thing is dead.

Same for passwords. If I feel I missed a key, in deleting the whole thing and starting it over

I’m sorry what?

I used to have these small faux pas lead to tension and eventually the loss of relationships.

One day I was complaining to my zen teacher about one of these instances and he suggested I apologize for it.

He said “That’s called ‘make mistake, correct mistake’” (I think he made up the saying on the spot for me).

Now some twelve years later I’m still reminding myself that I can just correct my mistakes.

Thankful not to be a medieval monk and having to throw away the whole page / scroll when you make a mistake

What year was this?

Even if that was the case was she too stupid to think of starting a new document?

Nah, I almost spit out my coffee

Oh god wtf

NO!

Wat?

Amazing. People are amazing.

Well but in your defence, you probably don't just carry around something like cetirizine but something more rash/hive specific like Idk desloratadine, which would not be the first choice for seasonal allergies... I'd guess (also not an expert in allergy medicine but you get the gist I think)

I used to clear my nose (still do), sometimes it would start running after sneezing so I'd take a paper towel and clean up the snot. I then had to sneeze again and that caused more snot to appear.

It turns out that I can just use my mouth to inhale and not have to breathe in a bunch of tiny towel particles. Who woulda thought... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I punched shower sock boy into Duckduckgo and don't see much. Help?

I always wash my flip flops in the cold water while waiting for it to warm up. There's probably something productive that everyone can do with the cold water.

Not an entire shower, but I sometimes end with a cooler second rinse.

I go hot for the muscles, pores, and lungs. At the end I wind it down to freezing or as close as I can get, a bit at a time. Typically ends in some kind of barbarian spiritual catharsis involving grunting. Then I picture polar bear club and want to die.

I live in a tropical area, so baths and showers are always in cold water. Hot water is for small children and the sick or elderly.

This is apparently a huge culture shock to people coming from the colder parts of my country.

Everyday on the southern hemisphere, minus in winter.

It has some nice health benefits. Tricks your body into suvival mode.

Only time I intentionally took a cold shower was after a long bike ride, wearing formal clothing, in the middle of summer. It was freeing and very cold.

Cold shower after workout is great for preventing muscle soreness.

Sure, on some Arizona summer days.

The trick is to start at the end of your limbs and move slowly inward until you think you had enough, and definitely not so fast you start to pant: The calmer you are, giving time for the body to switch to the change, the more you'll be able to take, so take it slow. Also don't feel obliged to use only the cold tap, especially in winter that can be rather extreme. Just up to elbows and knees more often than not get you that nice metabolism boost and that's a perfect pre-coffee, OTOH some days are torso days and even others are head days.

Renters insurance isn't that expensive and worth having. If you rent and the place burns down, none of your stuff is covered by the landlord's insurance. Pretty sure you also can get personal liability coverage in case you get sued.

Oooh, this one's even trickier these days because some/rental companies will provide their own rental insurance as part of the lease, and give you no option but to pay for it, citing some obscure law or whatever. The trick though, is that rental insurance doesn't cover you, the rentee, but you don't know that unless you wade through the legalese yourself. Then they try to convince you that you don't need any other renters insurance, because you're already covered, which is of course a bold faced lie.

Not getting old as much as deciding that maybe it’s ok to let yourself enjoy things rather than be strict abt them. For me I was changing a lightbulb and decided that I was done standing dangerously on office chairs so I bought a nice collapsible step ladder.

Did you wonder why no one is mentioning Canadaians?

Just pretend you wrote it in Swiss German and you're good!

Gesamt oder gesammt? Kommt doch von Summe

Btw I also pronounce it umbedingt although I know better

Ah, don't worry. There are tons of those in the German language. Mine was "Firmament", I thought it was "Firnament". Yours is a bit worse ;)

Had an argument with my ex once (both speaking german as a third language) about the pronounciation of 'Umgebung', where she made it sound like "Um'g-bung" for some reason. Ended up asking a random train conductor to settle it.

Is 8 minutes considered a fast shower?

It can be a poverty thing too.

If you struggle to pay normal bills, letting it warm up makes the bill higher. So grow up poor, and you find out lots of habits of yours exist to save less than a dollar a day.

Letting it warm up means waiting until the water coming out of the faucet/shower head is warm instead of cold.

Depends on the tap

I had a very cold shower once until I realized you had to open it all the way to get hot water (no separate hot and cold taps). What a bizarre design.

You would need a circulation pump and a bypass valve on the sink in the bathroom or on the water heater. There still would be a very short period(time depends on pipe layout) of cold water unless you tear out the shower and put the bypass valve at the shower supply.

You wouldn't even need a plumber if you feel comfortable screwing lines together, but you might need an electrician if you can't add an outlet.

They cost under $400 to add, parts only.

Or you could spend $20 and get one of those shower head extensions so you could hold the shower head way from you until it gets warm.

Dribking in the shower?