My hot water tank runs out quick so if I let it warm up it’ll be cold by the time I get in.
I’m down to military showers, 8 minutes (heavy scrub independent of the time)
Letting it warm up means waiting until the water coming out of the faucet/shower head is warm instead of cold.
As my WW2 veteran grandfather used to say: “armpits and assholes”.
The Carlin version is armpits assholes crotch and teeth
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.
Does water service not come with a base volume in most places? Where I am, we have a base service fee of $20/m and that includes like the first 2000 gallons, and I struggle to even hit that most months. Jumping in a cold shower wouldn’t actually save me any money .
In the US, I’ve never seen that on any water bill in my life. It’s just dollars per gallon here.
How closely have you looked at your bill? This has been the case in at least 3 different places in the US for me.
Not insanely closely to be honest.
Yeah, we have a base amount of water here. 2 people never got over base, with 3 we sometimes go over and have to pay more.
Same here, lived in a few different states and usually never got out of the first “tier” pricing bracket (where this billing method was used), so my water bills were pretty much to the penny the same every month.
You’re also paying for your heater to heat that water. If you don’t use as much hot water, your electricity/gas bill should be slightly lower.
Is 8 minutes considered a fast shower?
Maybe if you have long hair lol. I’m way faster than 8 mins
this guy is just a Master’s candidate, the PhDs need even more help
I always knew I could let the shower warm up but it seemed wasteful and I found the cold invigorating so I did it that way until about 40. Something shifted and it was unpleasant instead of invigorating. Signs of getting old I guess.
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.
I used to enjoy the invigorating cold when I was younger. Then I stopped enjoying it.
Congrats on the ladder though
It’s like Reese and the monkfish.
Growing up we had a walk in shower, the way it was setup there was no way to reach in and not get hit by cold water. Especially a short kid with short arms, you were getting a full blast cold water trying to go “out” of the shower. The tap was the push-pull type and very difficult to modulate so limiting to low pressure trickle was basically a game of russian roulette. The best I could do was hug the wall and let it only get whatever corner of my body I wanted to sacrifice to temporary hypothermia that morning.
An alternative solve is to get a handheld shower head so you can point it away from you while it heats up.
Oh yeah, this was the solution later on. For like kid me? At the time I didn’t know you could even replace the showerhead… :(
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 friends house had a little spout near the floor in his stand up shower, so you could run the water and test the temperature with your toe. When it was good you pulled the stopper like in a bath and it came out of the shower head.
And all the cold water that has been sitting in the shower pipes since the last shower comes out, pushed by the warm water behind it.
This just seems like the wrong way around… Surely it’s better to build the shower so the water doesn’t go near the tap? Just have the tap off to the side?
Imagine having a sink where the tap was directly underneath the spout.
Putting the tap opposite the shower head could also work. The plumbing would be kind of wonky, though.
That’s an understatement. It would be such a huge pain the ass to plumb that.
Yeah that was definitely a take that forgets that valves are still a mechanical system and the knobs are where they are cause they open and close the flow of water there. I guess you could do electrical systems now but… That’s probably a bad idea for so many reasons.
Design > function
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?
This sonds like when that podcast dude realised you shit directly in the toilet and not in your hand first
Based on context clues, I’m inclined to believe that they have characters and he’s more or less the “fall guy” so she can be the “Bully.” It also just sounds like he was going for “toilet paper isn’t an impenetrable shield, and if there’s any smear left before you wipe, you’ve got poo particles on your hands” but pivoted to “this sounds like a really good bit if I can milk it.”
Wat?
Amazing. People are amazing.
I have allergy meds on me at all times, because sometimes I break out in hives for no reason.
One day, I’m sneezing like crazy from seasonal allergies, and my coworker asked if I tried any medicine. I suddenly realized allergy medicine works for allergies
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)
Nope, it’s cetirizine, the other one you mentioned doesn’t work, and Benadryl makes me sleepy. Looking at the bottle, it doesn’t even list rashes or anything - just seasonal allergies lol
Yeah it’s wild that they don’t really make it obvious that antihistamines works pretty much anywhere or any way for allergies.
I’m allergic to Benadryl which means if I ever I’m having an allergic reaction to something else I’m allergic to I can’t treat the hives with Benadryl, but Zyrtec, Allegra, Claritin, all are somewhat effective in treating it. But man cetirizine is definitely the best one.
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)_/¯
Reminds me of the guy that spent his entire life sitting on the toilet with the seat up because he was told “girls use it with the seat down and boys have the seat up”.
It wasn’t until he got comfortable enough with his partner that when she saw him and asked why he wasn’t sitting on the seat did it even occur to him that he could.
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.
That doesn’t match my personal experience at all.
Using the toilet with each other present has been a thing in every relationship I’ve been in. And no, at no point was that a kink of either one of us.
That’s the exact opposite as my experience.
I am gay and from Canada and I assume you are straight and from Germany?
Maybe it’s a regional thing, or a gay vs straight thing?Canadian here. It’s not regional. My wife and I use the bathroom while the other is present all the time.
I am straight, though, so I can’t comment on that theory.
Same. I know of no couple on my circle where using the toilet on each others presence is just plain normal.
so everyone always locks the door? even if one person needs something from the washroom they would always wait till the other person finishes?
I’m an idiot. I meant the exact opposite and have edited the sentence to make it clear.
Every single couple I know uses the toilet in front of each other.
Why?
Why not?
Yes.
Yes, unless it’s something small that the toilet user can slip under the door
Yes.
My kid would never tolerate the indignity of waiting until after I was done shitting to tell me a barely parseable half remembered factoid
My wife and I respect each other’s bathroom privacy because it’s simply something we don’t care to see, although she-like nearly all females I know- doesnt know how a door works and can’t close it. We now live in a place where we have separate bathrooms, and it’s awesome.
That’s because your bath and toilet are in the same room. They should be separate.
These people must not have parents 🤯
Or they have terrible parents.
reaching into the oven and screaming as he pulls out the cooking tray
Where did the sofa go?
Soda?
Autocorrect got me
One time I took a pot roast out of the oven and set it on the stove. I turned around to grab something and looked back and thought, no, that needs to be scooted up a bit, and proceeded to grab the handle of the pan that had been out of the oven for all of 4 seconds with my bare hand.
That hurt.
I’ve done that with a cast iron. I had to go to the hospital. Same exact thing.
Use mitt. Put on stove. Take off mitt.
3 seconds later,Need to adjust, forget mitt.
Grab handle fully. Palm, thumb, fingers. Aghhhhhh
Cry a little bit. Soak in water pitcher.
Drive to hospital with hand in pitcher.
I probably should have gone to urgent care.
I did not. I put some creme on it, screamed, and held on to cold sodas all night
Well I got some painkillers, and luckily don’t have addiction issues so they really helped
So I just always turn the oven mitt around after I set it on the stove and put it over the handle as a reminder that it’s hot
I have burned myself in so many random ways around the kitchen, but this is a nice visual reminder to everyone who might not know that this pan is probably pretty hot still
Oh my god I have to watch this tonight
There’s an episode of The Office where Pam and Jim are trying to make Dwight think he’s in The Matrix, so they keep arranging “glitches.” Pam trains a cat to walk past Dwight’s door and then around to repeat it. As they’re telling the camera about it, Jim says “Why didn’t we just get two black cats?” and Pam looks at him with the expression I imagine this guy had with his girlfriend.
And thats what we call gaslighting!
Very cool, very funny, very good behavior!
/s
That’s not what gaslighting means
Gaslighting is a colloquialism, loosely defined as manipulating someone into questioning their own perception of reality.
Sounds like making someone believe they are in the matrix fits this perfectly but I’m no englishmatologist
It’s about making someone question the validity of their perception of reality. It’s emotional abuse, not simply tricking or lying someone.
When I was a kid, my parents weren’t gaslighting me when they convinced me the tooth fairy was real by putting money under my pillow and taking the baby teeth. They weren’t making me feel like I couldn’t trust my perception of reality, or that my feelings were invalid.
(Real world example): My best friend as a teenager tried convincing me he wasn’t trying to seduce my girlfriend at the time. He convinced me that my expressions of discomfort with all the “accidental” touching was me being a prude, and when I told him I thought he had ulterior motives trying to hang out with her alone and swim in his pool so often he convinced me that I was being up-tight. Lo and behold, one day in a drug-fueled stupor he admitted to me that he loved her the whole time. Making me feel like I couldn’t trust my own feelings on the matter was gaslighting. Now I have trust issues.
You’re overthinking this a bit, the whole point of the matrix is that our reality is fake. Making someone believe they are in the matrix is to make them question their perception of reality. Making someone question their perception of reality is gaslighting.
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.
Yes they released it when they moved the series to peacock, I didn’t know either. Enjoy your surprise new office content
My previous place heated up very slowly, so I started saving the cold water in a bucket to water my plants because it felt like a waste
I use mine for my humidifiers
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.
My wife, to this day, shuts off the shower and then immediately steps out while water is still running off her soaking wet body, inevitably creating a puddle in the bathroom.
“Honey, why don’t you drip for like five seconds, or even grab the towel and give yourself a quick dab before you get out?”
The first time I told her this she just stared at me for a solid 20s while her brain rebooted. But then her “never admit anything ever under any circumstances” instinct kicked in and she responded “wow are you really policing my shower habits?”
So anyway, now she knows better, but still does it because marriage is about compromise, or something.
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me too
Excellent username! I needed a reminder that losing is Fun™️ this morning.
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
Bashing your partner is a really popular form of humor, unfortunately. The older sitcoms for example are full of it. It gets appreciated not because it’s great humor but because it’s a form of coping with the issues, for both the one making the joke and the ones laughing.
Sure, that’s exactly what your comment history seems to imply. You are not using it as an excuse at all (even if you are)
This comment has it all. This is Lemmy.
Ya know what? I was getting a bit frustrated by the reaction to this, but this genuinely brightened my night. I… don’t get people sometimes, but I do enjoy this place.
Yep, has a humorous tone for sure. Don’t worry, this guy doesn’t hate his wife.
If anything, this guy is describing a healthy relationship. You don’t have to have a discussion where you share your heart and feelings about every issue. That’s exhausting having to learn and grow all the time.
Imagine a friend that you joke around and are comfortable with. You would say “fuck you, I’ll drip wherever I want. You’re just mad because you have no drip.” That’s a healthy relationship.
That’s best friend energy alright. Or, perhaps, a loving sibling energy
Minus the witnessing eachother dry off after a shower.
Only in Kentucky and Alabama.
Lul damn that’s a good comeback at the end there.
At the same time, sometimes it’s good to say “yeah, your way might be better.” Of course, I’m single, so take my comment with a grain of salt.
Really shitty? This is mildly shitty at worst IMO.
Fair enough
someone can totally love their partner and still find some of the stuff they do infuriating.
also my oldest kid did this. it’s infuriating! (but i love him.)
It’s a good thing she’s not single, I would hate being in a relationship with your wife!
Thank you for your service, OP
Anyone whose first instinct is to get defensive when offered good faith advice… yeah keep em away from me
Yeah but this guy could be a controlling asshole who follows her around all day laying down “life hacks”.
We just don’t know.
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.
The good ol’ hand squeegee
I got ridiculed for doing this by my partner. I do it very quickly and vigorously, it just makes a ton of sense to me; I end up being dry faster and more efficiently than going straight to the towel.
Sometimes it’s okay to tell your partner to go fuck themselves.
Just give them a vibrator/fleshlight, same message but more constructive.
I just shake like a dog for a good 10 seconds.
I can use it several times before it needs a wash.
Look at this guy over here, washing his towels.
That’s how you fuck up your towel mushroom harvest.
This is it, my least favorite comment chain today
alt-text: relevant Dilbert
I’ve done this for years!
Why does your towel need to be washed more often if it gets wetter?
The water coming off your body is pretty clean (you just showered).
Things like to grow on wet stuff. Even if you’re clean, wet towels will start to grow things and get an odor. The quicker the towel gets dry the quicker it doesn’t grow stuff.
IMO it matters more how long it has been since you last washed it, not how wet it was. It also depends a lot more on the climate. A wet and humid client will be worse than a house with central heating in the winter, where things are notoriously dry.
“I am dumbass, quit soaking the bathroom.”
I squeegee my whole body with my hands before stepping out
I call it knife hands.
Me too. At least my head if not everything.
Me too! No pools of water on the floor, no wet towel after 1 shower.
I dry myself completely while still in the shower and it’s a mystery to me why not everybody is doing this.
Because sometimes I leave the towel hanging on the door hook :')
Ok? And?
🚿
She reminds me of my 3rd ex wife.
Oh shit, I do that too! Never occurred to me to stand there and drip for a minute. 😅
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.
Yes, because other people have bath mats…
- Hang towel over shower screen.
- Shower.
- Turn off water.
- Wipe water off body.
- Towel dry.
I do this out of habit
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.
My ex did the same, then wondered why her base boards nildewed.
I lived in a place I had to do the opposite. The heater was broken, but the tank was outside exposed to the sun. So to get as warm water as I could, I had to go in right away and get the best of it.
I didn’t realize I could dry off with a towel while still standing in the bathtub/shower until I was 26. Now my bathroom floor doesn’t get wet on a daily basis.
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.
Or just one that’s more of a rug than a small towel.
Huh, I tried so many of those over the years and always hated the way they feel. Then a few years back, I discovered mats that are more like towels you can throw on the ground but thicker. So much better. The clincher was that I never knew how to clean the mats, but the towel- like ones can go in the wash whenever towels are cleaned
If you put a duck board on the floor then you can put any towel you like on top of it as your mat.
They’re so pokey, though!
Preal men like scratchy mats. Puts hair on your feet.
I hate when I get hair on my feet
Rub on mat vigorously
No more mat!
That’s what bath mats are for…
No, they are for the last drops missed while toweling in the shower
After you’ve skimmed the water off, then towel dried inside the shower, the bathmat barely needs to get wet, especially if you step onto your towel when getting out.
That’s why I use ham
Ok, but why not leave all the water in the spot that actually has a drain for it?
Because your towel will get wet when drying your feet and such.
…lift up your feet.
No you don’t touch the towel to the shower floor, you do everything but that. Then you step into the mat mostly dry, not cold, not making a mess to finish.
I believe wet bathrooms have a drain in the middle of the bathroom. This is the way we should build all bathrooms.
Bathrooms should have a floor drain regardless of whether they are of the wet variety. I personally hate the concept of a wet bathroom and the behaviour it encourages. Stuff gets wet that shouldn’t, it just makes everything harder and expands the scope of cleaning while compromising “dry” tasks after someone else has used the shower if they partake in the undisciplined behaviour the design encourages. Also not a fan of all the functions being in one room.
I might be using the term wet bathroom wrong, I just mean the floor should have a drain (and be able to get wet obviously).
A friend of mine told me a story once about an intern that was tasked with writing a text. She delivered one page of text and was told to write more. She asked how. She didn’t know that you could write more than one page in Word.
What year was this?
Oh, way into the 2000s.
So, like, 2024? That’s how far they go as of now
No, I could se this… Fill up a full page and then it jumps to the next, blank page. If she can’t see that the first page exists, she may have thought she just erased all her work by typing one too many keys.
Source: I work in IT and pretty sure I’ve seen exactly this. Lot’s of flavors to the human experience, lemetellyou.
Even if that was the case was she too stupid to think of starting a new document?
