A hairy-assed man benefits by being able to pressure wash the cling-ons away.
Not that I would know anything about that.
I’ll also chime in as a 6’ 5" guy. . .like many others, I point the shower head so it’s as close to the back wall as possible, while still landing in the tub, exactly as Fuji described. Also, exactly as he described, I run the bath faucet to get the water to the right temperature, then pull the little button to divert the water to the shower head. I get in on the same side as the faucets, so when I turn on the shower, the curtain is pulled back to the back of the shower where the water is hitting, and none splashes out.
My girlfriend’s also fairly tall for a female (5’ 11" or so), and she doesn’t seem to mind the shower head placement. She does prefer to aim it downwards when she shaves her legs, though.
I don’t understand how anyone can adjust a standard shower head (protruding maybe 6-8 inches out of the wall) straight down without snuggling right up against the front wall, and being constantly poked in “sensitive areas” with the handles and faucet.
If you have to adjust before you get in the shower, obviously he has to do the same thing before he gets in the shower. He’s probably on some other message board right now complaining about your showerhead use is wrong.
I had an old girlfriend that used to end every shower by rubbing the soap over her ummm… netherregions. I’d hop in after her and grab the soap to wash my face but by this time it looked less like a bar of soap and more like a beaver pelt.
A mis-aimed shower head? I like your problem better.
It seems to me that it’s just common sense for anyone using a shower to check before turning it on to see where it’s postioned.
Even if you were to calmly discuss this with hubby and he agrees to point it down for you when he’s done, there will occasionally be the odd time when he’ll forget. Then you still have the shower-in-the-face experience.
I can understand a person being upset the first time being unexpectedly sprayed in the face (or sitting on a toilet with the seat up).
Anyone who would do this a second time is a slow learner.
(Ducking now from the flame throwers)
My response to the poll:
- Get into tub, close the curtain
- Turn on the faucet for the tub, adjust temperature
- While the water’s warming up, make sure the shower head is at the right angle - diagonally down across the tub (hits the far end of the tub, but not the wall)
- When the temp is right, push the button that changes it from tub to shower
I have yet to see a shower head I can stand under, so it has to be diagonal. Even better - we have the shower head with the removable head, so you can pick it up and point it where you want it.
Oreo, my wife and I have the identical situation but reversed. When I shower, I direct the head mostly downward so it’s falling entirely within the tub. When she showers, she aims it out at more of an angle so it’s hitting the far wall.
(A peculiarity of our shower: the pipe comes out of the wall at almost exactly the six-foot mark, so when it angles down, the showerhead is right about at my hairline. Totally aggravating; horrible design. We got one of those snakehead adjustment things and bent it back in an S so the shower head is juuuuust over the top of my head. So when my wife aims it up, she’s just trying not to have to bend her neck to get under the shower massage.)
Anyway, this means that when I go in for my morning shower, I have learned that I must bend the neck down before I do anything else, or the water will spatter off the far wall and go everywhere. I don’t complain. I don’t fume. I just do it, automatically, without another thought.
Of course, because I am the man and she is the woman, perhaps this solution will be inapplicable to your situation. 