Shower Curtains
things that make you go
"yeueeechhhhhh"
There are very few things in this world that I can
say that I absolutely loathe.
Cheap
plastic shower curtains are one of
them.
I have stayed in a lot of hotel
rooms over the years and tonight I find myself in yet another. The room was
promoted as having been newly refurbished to the chain's latest standards.
Unfortunately this does not also apply to the bath. One of these days someone is
going to make the accountant that decides to only spend tuppence three farthings
on the shower actually attempt to use one. It is a basic physics principle that
when you put one of these hideous things inside the bath and then turn on the
shower the air pressure over the bath will lower and consequently the curtain
will be pulled into the bath and towards the occupant of the shower. Add to this
the really cheap and nasty material that it is made of and the curtain then
attempts to adhere itself to you.
No
matter how much you fight it and try to beat the shower curtain away it chases
after you, remorselessly trying to become your second
skin.
When I installed a shower over the
bath a year ago I bought a proper glass shower screen. There was no way that I
was going to impose a shower curtain on anybody that chose to get wet and naked
in my bathroom. This must have cost me all of £25, if you factor in how
many rooms there are in this hotel, and the entire chain, the cost of a simple
screen like that when bought in bulk would probably be close to single figures,
and installation was a total breeze. Even if you allow for an occupancy rate of
about 30% you could recoup the cost of installation in a little over a year by
charging about an extra £2 per room per night, probably even less. I for
one would be perfectly willing to pay an extra couple of quid a night to avoid
feeling that clammy hand on my backside whilst I'm trying to
shower.
There is a little note attached
to the bath reminding me to be careful when taking a shower and to avoid
slipping. Unlike other hotels they haven't provided me with one of those suction
mounted shower mats so whilst trying to avoid the embrace of the ever loving
shower curtain I managed to slip and slide all over the place, nearly doing
myself a mischief.
One final thing....
the person who installed the shower head must have been a munchkin. It was fixed
to the wall at a height somewhat level with my throat and only pointed
downwards. Try to wash your hair and either you have to lean forwards and get
water up your nose or you turn away from the shower head, squat down and
promptly get the mixer tap up your
rectum.
Tomorrow I get on the plane and
it is another hotel in the evening. Hopefully the hotel in Douglas is designed
taking extra limbs into account. Should be interesting.
Posted: 10:33 PM
