How long should a shower be?

[TwickenhamCyclist]

About 2 meters or you could bang your head

 

[stephec]

Had I not seen you were from Scotland I may have misinterpreted this

....err, you do mean "small" don't you?

Beat me to it, and saved me having to find a polite way of putting it.

 

[slowmotion]

Ten minutes tops. Any longer and I have to get out and fetch a chair.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

It's worth noting (to get a balanced result from your poll @Crackle) that here in Scotland we do not have water meters, the water bill is a flat yearly amount included in your council tax.

 

[Tim Hall]

The Mad Scientist (female, 10 years old, the size of a flea) takes the longest out of all of us. More than once I've suspected she's gone down t'plug'ole...

She ought to have been bathed in a jug.

 

[summerdays]

I like my showers to be a bit of get in and get on with it and at the end have an extra minute or two just letting the water cascade over me, unless I've got very cold and wet before I get in then I'm likely to have a longer shower. If needs be I can go from being dressed, shower and back to dressed in just over 5 mins, but I don't enjoy those showers.

Now if it's a bath then it's got to be a nice long soak!

I also look at the water temperature before I get in so I can see how much hot water I have - so summer showers are always much longer than winter ones particularly if it's been really sunny!

 

[Globalti]

[smug mode]

The 20-tube solar collector I installed on my roof has more than paid for itself by now and since mains water costs something ridiculous like £0.16 a ton, showers are extremely cheap and I stay in a good long time.

[/smug mode]

 

[coffeejo]

I don't think it's very British to have a shower. It's all too continental for me.

I heard that your family and neighbours offered to pay you to have more than one bath a year.

 

[ufkacbln]

We used to have a shower at work and a changing room for cyclists.

It was fine, and the half dozen of us who used it would nip in, do what was necessary, and back out again so the next would go in.

Then a new guy arived who would enter the shower at 07:30 and at 08:30 still be in there, depriving everyone else of its use.

He was totally oblivious to subtle hints, banging on the door and on one day all six of us singing "why are we waiting".

 

[ufkacbln]

The best shower heads are those that come in from the top, wide and designed to release equatorial rain drops. That can keep me in the shower for sometime.

I remember a camp site at Reedham Fery where the shower was like a staccato machine gun, almost painful in its intensity

I heard that your family and neighbours offered to pay you to have more than one bath a year.

Another site at Saxmundham, the shower hose was at about 5 feet and pointing towards the door. Hooks for your door and coin operated, with the coin slot on a central wall outside the shower.

That was when you realised that the shower was sufficiently horizontal that it soaked your clothes and towel

When we got back to the tent, we commented on this to the coule in the big static tent next door, to the reply..... "We've only been here ten days, so we haven't used them yet"

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I don't think it's very British to have a shower. It's all too continental for me.

If the good Lord had intended us to shower we'd have armpits that face upwards.

 

[psmiffy]

In my vast experience of living with various females of various ages, my theory is that the time spent in the shower is directly proportional to the length of their hair. All the males in my shower monitoring career have had short hair.

I thought you said you never got the bird box camera working

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Long enough to observe this...
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Are you supposed to wear long white socks in the shower then?

 

[yello]

All the males in my shower monitoring career have had short hair.

Is there anything else that you might like to share with us?

 

[theclaud]

Is there anything else that you might like to share with us?

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