Submitted 3 weeks ago by anchorite@community.nodebb.org to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
I ain't getting any younger.
I need to buy and install some of those no-slip rubber mat pieces in and around my tub. A couple years ago I slipped and cracked the back of my head, and was fortunately okay, but those events can be life-altering, or fatal.
Do people generally not walk into their showers? How else are you getting in them.
You should be dancing in as per standard protocol.
You’ve activated a memory of John Leguizamo dancing in the bathtub and I’m not sure I wanted to remember that.
The Pest was a strange movie
Many showers are also a bathtub. Step over to get in.
Wait… What kind of shower do you have now? 🤨
I’m guessing a step in where they have to step over the side of the bath tub
Call me a grumpy stubborn old hacker if you want, but no thanks I prefer printf shower.
I crawl into mine through a doggy door
Get one. I have one and it is so awesome.
Aren’t all showers “walk-in”?
I assume OP’s shower is built into a tub. Which means they have to step up and over to get in.
Shower stalls are just “walk-in”, yeah. But not everyone has those.
Or it’s one of those trays with high-ish sides.
Baths with shower heads are not shower stalls.
No one said stalls. And any motion involving taking a step is walking.
This joke is getting away too much analysis.
Could build a wheelchair ramp on the side of the tub so you can just roll on in
Once you have a walk-in shower, you’ll never want to go back. Huge improvement over tubs.
We just turned a closet into a big shower- almot 5’ x 5’. Now we walk around and have conversations in there in the morning. Also, I’ve had two knee surgeries this fall and it’s awesome to have the extra space for a temporary bench and for my honey to step in and take my crutches.
This is like the first thought that goes through my head when getting in a shower too!
Sometimes its just that I really want a bench.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Find someone who will install a Japanese bath in your house.
This turns the whole room into a waterproof shower stall in which a tub is optionally placed. So you can just walk into that room and stand wherever you please.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
stands on the wall
early_riser@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t believe in gravity
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
These suck in winter. Drafty.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Put the exhaust fan on separate switch and don’t use it while you’re in there. That’s what I’ve been doing, most Japanese baths are wired that way.
Older Japanese construction can have a small window to the outside to help with ventilation. The only reason it would be drafty is if that window is open/won’t seal properly or if the fan is pulling the heat out too quickly.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I have one of those. Having water everywhere, especially when it’s hard water, isn’t as much fun as it sounds.
200ok@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I feel like I’d be cold all the time. My shower is tiny but it gets nice and steamy-warm