frigidus maximus
Over the last few days, the hot water pump to our 1820s house has been failing; it's dead now. This morning, I was pleasantly jarred awake by an ice cold shower. I mean crazily jumping in and out of the water-stream cold, 'til my skin was numb enough to take the rush of soul destroying iciness full-on. Not to say that I don't enjoy the occasional ice-bath, but you really do have to be in the mood - or at least used to it, as I was for a time at boarding school - and not, as today, feeling all cosy and comfortable on what is the first chilly morning I've experienced in weeks. City-wide goose-bumps can be somewhat sexy though.
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Britain and good plumbing just don't go together. I live in a house that doesn't have any hot running water, other than in the shower, where you can get the right temperature, but only at the not-so-impressive speed of 'drip, drip, drip'.
However, while our showers may be feeble, at least they tend to be handheld - you should have seen the acrobatic positions I had to get into while taking a shower in America last summer!
My general impression is that it can vary tremendously in both countries, be it water pressure or the nature of the shower head. Up until now, things were pretty impressive, especially considering the fact that it is University owned property. Your situation must be a north/south divide thing :)p
Hardly anyone I know in .my showers. We all prefer pail baths, it's that hot.
Nothing like starting your day out with a cold shower. And doesn't that chill just stay with you *all* day? I tend to take a long time to warm up so being cold for the majority of my waking hours is something I dislike...a lot! Ugh.
Ditto that - poorest hand and foot circulation in the universe; it takes ages to warm up.
And K, you must hang with some funny people; even my kampung (for the unacquainted, a kampung is a local village) friends enjoyed having showers; the buckets were the domain of our water fights. Also useful for holding captured prawns, haruan and frogspawn.
In my kampung, I think the word 'shower' usually refers to rain. I dunno, it must be different for us Chinese then, cuz hardly anyone I know uses a shower. I kid you not. Most homes, like mine, don't even have one installed.
Well... I do have one installed, but it's in my parent's bedroom and not even she uses it.