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LKF #3: When you’re showerin’, the whole room showers with you

February 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments

There’s a line from a Louis Armstrong song that goes something like this:

“When you’re showerin’
Oh, when you’re showerin’
The whole room showers with you”

Okay, so I may have taken some artistic liberties with the exact wording. Anyhow, in Indonesia the bathrooms are more like “wet rooms”. That’s especially true since we’ve installed a shower head in our bathroom. When we take a shower, there’s no curtain and no walls to keep the water from splashing onto the toilet and everything else in the bathroom. All the water just ends up on the floor and drains out. So the whole room showers with you. Little Known Fact #3.

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4 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Cindy // Feb 16, 2008 at 10:44 am

    Sounds like an easy way to clean the bathroom though - disinfect, then turn on the shower, then leave the bathroom. Hey, watch out for the bird flu Billy. I love you.

  • 2 Billy // Feb 23, 2008 at 11:04 am

    Don’t worry about bird flu :) That’s a concern but only among people who spend a lot of time around chicken farms.

  • 3 Amanda // Mar 2, 2008 at 3:13 am

    Y’know what? I thought of doing a post on this exact topic. I too installed a shower head but we don’t bother using it. Water pressure is so low that I just use that scooper thing like everybody else here.

  • 4 Billy // Mar 2, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    Oh yeah, that’s worth mentioning. Most folks here don’t have a shower head at all. They take a “mandi” instead, which means ladeling water over yourself in the bathroom. Refreshing!

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