The Perfect Shower

March 1, 2010
Monday, 7:02 P.M.
Home

Living in a basement apartment for the past five and a half years, I'd about given up on ever having a great shower again. No sooner would I get the water pressure and temperature just right than my landpeople upstairs would rinse out a pan, run the dishwasher, do the laundry, flush the toilet, water the lawn, wash the car, or any of a host of other water using activities they find to do from day to day. If, on the slim chance that it was only a few seconds of discomfort, then my phone would ring, it would be important and I would have to cut my evening ministrations short.

Then came tonight and all seems to have been right with the world because I stepped into that shower, set the water pressure and toasty warm temperature and there they stayed! My hair got thoroughly rinsed, all the shaving got done with not a nick, and I basked in the glory of standing under a perfect shower until I was ready, really ready to get out. Aaaah, heaven.