Um, I do it both times…
Yes, I’m very fastidious.
Also, I like to wash my hair in the nighttime.
One of the greatest things since I started shaving my head years ago is NOT having to take a shower in the morning. It basically means more sleepy time for me as I am a chronic “snooze” button pusher.
And if I happen to have sex with my lady after the shower; well, thats great too because I like having her scent on me all day.
And no, I promise, I’m not a psycho.
Well, of COURSE we are constantly sweating a small amount. Duh! My point was, I do not sweat at night to the degree that I am dirty enough by morning to require another shower for good personal hygiene.
Just as many of you morning showerers do not feel it is too disgusting to go to bed without a shower.
night shower due to pollen.
in the morning it is rinse off/ body scrub/conditioner time.
I wake up in the morning looking as if I’ve been homeless for a month. I’ll shower at night if I’ve done sweaty work during the day (like yard work), but have to shower every morning and wash my hair if I plan on looking like a human.
I’m barely recognizable as a sentient being before my morning shower. My human façade is not complete until I’ve ingested 2 cups of coffee. After that I can pass as one of you.
I don’t feel clean unless I wash my hair every day. Even though it may look fine, it just feels icky.
Ooooh, me too! Even if I miss one day, it feels oily and greasy. Mine even looks more flat and lifeless, too.
I take a bath followed by a quick rinse-off shower at night as part of my before bed routine. I try to get done early enough so I can let my hair air-dry [blow dryers=yecch!]. If I feel yucky in the morning or just CAN’T wake up, I’ll have a quick rinse. I just can’t sleep feeling grungy.
Two reasons. One, the practical: I have three feet of hair and I live in a place where, when I wake up in February, it is not unusual for the weatherman to tell me the high will be, say, “twelve”. If I showered in the morning, my entire head would be a block of ice before I got to work/class.
And two, I loathe getting up in the morning. My first words, most days, are the kinds of things you don’t repeat in polite company. If they are proper words in the first place. If I showered in the morning that’s half an hour of sleep I’d have to shift to nighttime, when I like being away, to early daytime, when I sometimes pray for the flu so I have a good excuse to go back to bed.
I do sometimes skip a shower at night and take one when I first get up, but usually if I do that it’s because I’m going to bed at four in the morning and getting up at noon, and not going anywhere farther than the kitchen afterwards.
Somewhere I ran across the phrase “Old men shower in the morning; young men shower at night.” The latter, I assume, to be squeaky-clean for sex, particularly if there is the possibility of oral attention.
I have extra-oily skin, and for many years called on businesses in small towns to sell them advertising (radio, then newspaper). There is no way I could go without a morning shower. Furthermore, I have sleep apnea and wear headgear, which leaves my thick, grey hair looking like a botched attempt at a haystack. I wash my oily face at night, and if I’ve been working in the yard or other activity that causes a sweat, I have to shower at night as well.
When I lived on the Caribbean coast of Colombia (not far from the equator) I showered up to five times a day: morning, before and after swimming at noon, often after siesta, and at night after biking. The night shower was the best because it was the only one with cold water, and I had no air-conditioning at home. Water is stored in tanks on the roof so during the day it’s always warm from sitting in the sun.
Here, I usually shower at night because I do not have hot water, but by night the pipes have heated up enough during the day that the shower is not unpleasently cold.
In hot season, I shower nearly continuously, my favorite hot season passtime being “take a shower and then stand in front of the fan and then take anouther shower.”
I can’t fall asleep unless I’m clean.