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How To Take A Shower

You can find anything on the internet. Well, almost anything. You can find out how sunless tanning cream works. You can find out if you have cancer. You can find out what bizarre holiday is being celebrated today (today is Eat What You Want Day, National Receptionist Day, and Twilight Zone Day) (Thanks, NegativeMode). The list goes on and on.

But something that seems to be conspicuously missing from the webosphere is a discussion of shower technique. All I could find were a very stupid and unfunny joke page about the differences between men and women showering (I highly recommend NOT clicking that link, and that is not reverse psychology. I only provide the link because I see doing so is something of a Blog Duty), conserving water in the shower, showering birds, showering babies, showering elderly hospital patients, and techniques for observing meteor showers. Nothing on how to take a good shower yourself.

Kramer had to go to the gym and watch people in the shower to improve on his technique, and that got him a black eye (he eventually gave up and just installed a garbage disposal in his shower so he could prepare dinner while he bathed). These days, we expect to be able to supplement our cultural shortcomings by going on the internet. Well, there doesn't seem to be anything out there.

I imagine all of us think that we have a pretty decent technique going on in the shower, and perhaps that's why we don't discuss it. But perhaps we need more discourse on this issue; perhaps we could all be taking more effective showers. Have you ever known someone who spends way longer (or shorter) in the shower than you do? Don't you wonder what they're doing in there that's different than you? Maybe not.

posted by PositiveMode @ 9:14 AM