Puerto Rican shower

muchmore · 2017-07-18T12:28:05+02:00

Is ot just me or.......Have you ever experienced (what I call) a Puerto Rican shower? It's one of those showers with the weird electrical something-or-another gadget hooked to the shower head (presumably a regulator) that limits water flow resulting in an infinitesimally small amount of water coming out......seemingly spitting at you resulting in barely enough bodily-liquidation to adequately lather-up and not nearly enough to rinse-off in a timely fashion? What's up with with that? Which Einstein decided to combine electricity and water..... in a shower of all places? Duh? A smart one. That's who. A guy that wanted to absolutely ensure low water usage. His design works only becaues he induced intense fear into the showering process eqation: F×S = A/T (F / fear factor × S/ Spitting Regulator = A /limited water availability in T/least amount of time) Result is an awesomely scary showering experience though and avwater-saving one. Each and every time I got in and turned on the "spitter" I was sure I was going to get zapped/electrocuted.... which for me resulted in an extremely hurried shower.....and less of them! I figured out that Puerto Rican plumber's are on to something.....in an obtusely profound way. The fear of electrocution is indeed a great water saving inducement! No one in their right mind wants to ever think of getting fried/zapped/charged-up while standing in water....(even if it is unlikely to occur and the flow is a thimble-full every 5 minutes). Lets think about it anyway. A remarkably sudden whole-body electrification ... ...instantly causing intense muscular contractability and rigidity; jerking vibratations head to toe........rapid undulations; explodsandglobules; angular snake-like Tessler-arcs shooting out of all appendages (great and small, long and short); agonizing sensations of hair standing on end ; eyes popping; intensely hot bluish-white light streaming and beaming from every body orifice??? No thank's Mr. Smart Puerto Rican plumber-man. I prefer to keep my shower electricity-free. Doesn't save much agua. But it sure makes for a better showering experience....and a much safer one as well.

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WarnerW Serial expat

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WarnerWSerial expat05 September 2017 02:44:25

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Gary wrote:
I could also buy a pump with a timer or use an external timer and run the pump only at daylight, thus saving roughly half of the electricity.

Or you could buy a solar-powered pump ;-)

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