Thursday, March 20, 2014

Life on the Edge

Another joy of the fellowship interview season has been crashing at a variety of hotels, which brings about the inevitable process of figuring out all the quirks and idiosyncrasies of an unfamiliar shower. 

Here's the actual shower knob
from my latest hotel stopover:


Clean. Simple. Intuitive.
It lulls you into the belief that
the water temperature control will be like this:

In reality, it's like this:


Near-lethal shower knob, I solute you! Because life's too short to settle for boring predictable water temperatures.

3 comments:

  1. No, what would really be fun would be if, along with that nonsense, the hot and cold sides were reversed.

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  2. I'm trying to find a bright side here...how about this? Homing in on the teeny-tiny little Goldilocks zone of warm water is good practice for if/when you ever decide to rob a safe. Keep that skill in your back pocket*, MacGyver. :)

    *er, except for the fact that there are no pockets in the shower.

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  3. Been there. Done that. Only THAT shower had a movable comfort zone.

    At random times the sweet pocket would move over one way or the other.

    So for the last ten years i have not showered at all, but drawn water in a big mixing bowl and bathed out of it like a soldier bathes out of his steel helmet in the field.

    (Only soldiers no longer use steel helmets.)

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