# Do you enjoy taking a shower? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 22, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659 "2013-06-22T21:58:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/81 "2013-06-27T15:53:00Z")
I’m between “like” and “love.” My average, wake up in the morning, go in, get clean before work shower? I like it. It’s what wakes me up in the morning. Some people need that morning coffee/tea/cigarette, I need a blast of water in my face. Showers go to the “love” category in a couple instances. Post-workout showers and weekend showers? LOVE. Why’s that? One word (unless you don’t count hyphenated words as one-word, then it’s two words): Shower-beer. ---
**Author:** ![basset\_hound](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/basset_hound/32/1432_2.png) [@basset\_hound](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/basset_hound)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/82 "2013-06-27T17:04:07Z")
It’s just another mundane task that must be done. I have no positive or negative feelings about them unless I’m extremely dirty and therefore enjoy the noticeable change. Otherwise, no big deal one way or the other. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/83 "2013-06-28T00:50:05Z")
I’m lazy so I’d just as soon not. If I could take a magical clean pill instead I’d gladly do it. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/84 "2013-06-28T00:56:18Z")
I’m a terrible, terrible wasteful person that should be expecting a visit from the Planeteers any time now. When I had an apartment with a boiler that never ran out of hot water – and water was covered by the apartment – it was common for me to take 1-1.5 hour showers. I really like hot showers. It was sad when I had to move back to my mom’s house and I only get, like, 30 minutes. And by the tail end it’s barely lukewarm! The horror! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/85 "2013-06-28T05:40:43Z")
Used to enjoy them. Now I find them tedious. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/86 "2013-06-28T10:20:39Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Used to enjoy them. Now I find them tedious. Seconded. I’m living in a hotter country than I grew up in, and when you’re often getting to 3 or even 4 showers in a day…I challenge anyone to still get a buzz from it. Nevertheless I put “I have no feelings about it” because there are much worse chores. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/87 "2013-06-29T16:42:29Z")
LOVE being clean. HATE taking showers. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/88 "2013-06-29T18:36:12Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Or maybe you don’t hate them, you just take baths instead? > > Personally, I do not like showers. It’s because I can’t effing _see_ without my glasses, which have to come off to wash my face and hair, which means my footing is solely by feel and the sensation is quite precarious. I’d suggest blindfolding yourself and attempting to shower to get an idea, but I don’t anyone to hurt themself. > > Unfortunately, this stupid apartment I’m currently living in _does not have a bathtub_. Grrrr! So sometimes I wash everything BUT my face in the shower then wash my face in the sink where I can stand on a nice, secure dry carpet and not feel on the verge of falling on a slick, wet surface. But it’s a pain in the butt work around. May I suggest a shower chair? My dear late spousal-unit used one for the last 10 years of her life and never once stumbled or fell in the shower. We had grab-bars as well, of course. I am as myopic as you are, but I may have better balance. I also walk around here in the house at night in profound darkness, so I can make my way pretty well without visual cues. That reminds me that I need to take a shower (or is that ‘get a shower’) before I go to visit my friends this afternoon. 82°F (27.8°C) after a few hours of yard work will make this a delight. A needed delight as well. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/89 "2013-06-29T19:39:01Z")
Usually have no feelings about it, but love showers if I’m a mess. For example, I got caught in a ferocious t-storm on Thursday (nice summer we’re having here), and we’d long passed the point after which carrying an umbrella becomes a formality, so I just put it away, and slogged through the wind and rain. By the time I got home, my clothes and shoes were cold and wet and my hair was pasted to my face. Man, taking a long, hot shower after that and washing my hair felt GREAT! Also great followed a particularly sticky workout. ---
**Author:** ![polar\_bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@polar\_bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polar_bear)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/90 "2013-06-29T20:43:24Z")
It depends. Your normal morning shower means nothing to me; the hot shower after biking half an hour in freezing rain… awesome. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/91 "2013-06-29T20:56:44Z")
Living in the Tropics, there’s not much of a choice. You’re either sweaty and sticky or clean and dry. On average I shower thrice a day in the super-hot months (May/Oct) and at least twice the rest of the year. Not really a matter of “liking it or not” but rather a necessity. But mostly I feel great afterwards – at least for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/92 "2013-06-30T01:18:43Z")
Love it. It’s the mommy equivalent of a cigarette break, I think. Warm, relaxing, quiet, and I get to use my fancy, nice smelling stuff. I try to take one every day when my baby naps. ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/93 "2013-06-30T01:22:16Z")
Yep, about to hop in one right now… ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/94 "2013-06-30T01:37:51Z")
I like showers. They’re physically refreshing, and psychologically they make me feel like I’m washing my troubles away and starting “anew”. I shower at night before I go to bed. I never sleep very well when I wait till the morning, and plus I like waking up clean and ready to hit the day. I only like baths when I have bubble bath and I can vouch for the cleaniness of the tub. I don’t mind germies touching my feet while I shower. But I don’t want to stew in them. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/95 "2013-06-30T01:48:12Z")
Let me put it this way. When I was in college, I had a bad night at a party. Stumbled home, much the worse for substances and wear, and staggered into the shower. I woke up the next morning in the shower, which was still running hot. It was amazing. I shower twice a day in the summer - once before bed to get the daily sweat and ick off, and once in the morning before work so I can make my hair behave itself. I take super-hot showers even in the summer, because the heat helps my muscles relax, and my brain to wind down. I love being wet, I love the heat and steam, I love that everything I wash off goes OFF and AWAY instantly down the drain, I love the sensation of the falling water on my face and shoulders and back, I love the white noise of the water, I love that either you’re in there intimately with someone you love enough to let them wash your back and see you with your face all scrunched up with soap on it, or you’re alone in glorious seclusion with no distractions from your own thoughts… it’s just heavenly all around. I do sympathise with Broomstick tho - I’m not as nearsighted, but I’m pretty damn blind, and I do have a hella time showering in unfamiliar showers - don’t know where anything is, can’t figure out the taps because I can’t see them, the showercurtain ALWAYS ends up attacking me _shudder_ with nasty cold icky plastic ICK… yuck. So I understand the “meh” or “don’t like” comments. But with a perfect (or at least a really nice or personalized) shower… oh it’s just so amazingly nice. I do like a good soak, but for me, that is totally apart from the daily ‘getting clean’ idea. I love those Japanese soaking tubs, and our second renovation on our house is redoing our bathroom to have a walk-in multiple-person shower area, and a Japanese soaking tub with a wide edge for reading&soaking. Hell yes. I don’t think I was a fish or a dolphin, I think I was a _water molecule_ in a former life. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/96 "2013-06-30T04:07:59Z")
I’m also between like it and love it, though I chose “like it”, as long as it’s a shower stall and not a shower/tub combination. Because I’m short, I have problems getting into a shower/tub combo so I very much prefer just a shower, which is one reason I really like my current place. I love it particularly when I’m hot and sweaty. I also love it when I’m cold; I love standing there in the hot water warming up. Otherwise, I like it well enough. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659/97 "2013-06-30T13:26:30Z")
I certainly love feeling clean. It’s nice to be all clean and fresh after a shower. _The process itself_ is just a small chore, nothing else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-enjoy-taking-a-shower/661659.md?page=4)