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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Who Taught Boys to Shower....

Let me just start out with this disclaimer that this is NOT A SEXUAL POST.

Over the 25 years of experience in my life I have realized that boys shower stupid. I've witnessed this event many times in my life (and to spare everyone I'll just go ahead and put out there that this is all through my countless times of baby-sitting, and locker rooms on the swim team where most shower were taken with swimsuits on as to soap out the chlorine in the suit and not just some sort of steamy X-rated image you can all burn your retinas on- but occasionally those too)

As I was saying, boys shower stupid. Yeah sure they can get the basics down, but there are doing one VERY important thing wrong. Now.. again, I haven't taken too many showers with women but I'm gonna go ahead and just bet that 98% of women do this task correctly just based on gender..

Ok-- so i'm in the shower.. and i'm suds-ing up my hair (yay shampoo that smells like fruit!) and this is the easy part. Most everyone can manage this.. but then the hard part. RISING!
Can someone please tell me why there is a genetic difference in rinsing!? For me (and again i'm assuming 98% of all other women like myself.. tilt their head back and let the water reach JUUUUST to the brow and let all the soapy water run down their scalp, back, and eventually down to the drain.

Boys, do NOT do this. Somewhere along the lines, someone taught boys that they should tilt their head DOWN dace into the stream leaving an endless run of soapy burning water RIGHT INTO THEIR EYES! Then once this happens they reach out like some sort of crazy Frankenstein reaching for a towel to wipe their eyes. If they're brace they may just give a hard wipe to the eyes and then spend two minutes whining about "how it burns!"

So I'd seriously love some feedback. WHY DO THEY DO THIS?! I've literally been standing there watching this about to happen yelling NO DONT! JUST TILT YOUR HEAD BAAACK NOT FORWARD!!! and nothing. They just dont listen. It is just genetics? One father teachers his son to do this and so on and so forth!?

Can we remedy this unneccessary pain and stupidity?! Can we really together as women and mothers, girlfriends, and baby sitters and change the world!?

1 comment:

  1. I'm sure you've read it before, but this reminded me of a "difference in how men and women shower" email that cracked me up: http://www.snafu.com/Shower.html

    And yes, David totally does the "face into the water, let the suds run down your face" approach. I don't get it either.

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