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February 03, 2025

THE HOTEL SHOWER PROBLEM

Something must be done.

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Dave, I have a simple solution to the hotel shower problem: I generously allow my wife to take her shower first.

It's a win-win.

PS - don't tell her.

This Saturday, I gave Mr. MOTW a chore: replace the cold water faucet stem in the master shower. We live in an older home and the tub and shower stems just wear out after about ten years.
There is one store on the other side of town that carries older plumbing parts. They are open Monday-Friday, which doesn't help when you need to repair something on the weekend. So when we find ourselves needing a part, we generally buy extra and store it in the garage for the day we need it.
So I confidently told Mr. MOTW that I knew we had a couple of stems. He looked at the bag from the garage and saw that I had helpfully labeled it,
"2017 Hall Faucet Stems" .. but this is the master faucet, he said.
I responded that when our home was built, the contractors would not have said, "Hey, you know what would be funny? Let's use a different Pfister faucet set between the bathrooms!"

Well, the joke's on me because that is exactly what they did. However, Mr. MOTW was able to make it work.

Save water, shower with a friend.

MOTW, I read it as "I gave Mr. MOTW a choice" and was wondering what his other option was. Then I saw, "a CHORE."

Well done.

User interface is important. You can tell if Microsoft is doing your hotel's plumbing when, on your next visit, one of those controls has been relocated to a dark corner of the vanity cabinet.

You need 3 total naked people to turn the levers at the same time.

It's like needing 2 people to turn their keys to launch nuclear missles.

I was in a hotel this past weekend and the shower only had one control. It was very functional. The shower head, on the other hand...

Tangent time!

When I was in the Marines, the unit I was with lived in a squad bay and we had communal showers. This particular barracks was, uh, ancient. Anyway, one of the showers was missing a shower head. People complain about low flow shower heads, but this solved all problems. We called it the hose. Water straight from the pipes to your body with no restrictions. The way it was meant to be.

It's simple: the top knob is flow, the middle is temperature (with a smaller knob for Celsius because the numbers are smaller), and the bottom is to flush.


Wasn’t this part of an episode of Dave’s World?

Dave, are you recycling?

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