September 03, 2003
Crisis!
We don’t have a proper shower, we just have a bath with a “shower tap mixer attachment." It looks kind of like this:
Just imagine that the tube goes up to the shower head. You just turn the taps on if you want a bath, and if you want a shower you push a rubber bung into the tap spout, and the water is diverted up into the shower.
When I got back from Wellington, my flatmate casually mentioned that the rubber bung had somehow been sucked down the plughole. Tommy doesn’t care because he only has baths anyway – but I care. Oh boy do I care. This is real serious. In fact, the health and safety of Wellingtonians could be jeopardised. Not having a shower has the same effect on me as beer had on a bunch of college students in Beer Bad. I turn sub human. I get real clumsy, and real grumpy, I smell real bad, I become incapable of communication beyond grunts and gestures, and I have limited understanding of… well, anything… Oh, and I have the worst bad hair days you can imagine. The last time I didn’t have a shower, this is what happened:
Getting a comb through that was not fun. Ever tried combing one of those steelos you use for doing the dishes? Yeah.
I think I might have to open the bottle of sauvignon that I’ve been saving. I could whittle down the cork and shove it into the spout.
Posted by Fionnaigh at September 3, 2003 01:16 AMThere's always the showers in the Rec centre or at the pool. (I know, not convenient, but still...)
Are there still showers in the toilets in the ANZ building? Were there ever or am I hallucinating? :-)
Posted by: iona at September 3, 2003 11:40 AM