Something went wrong in my brain tonight.
I came home from Tae Kwon Do and went to take a shower (don’t worry, this isn’t going to get weird).
So, where was I? Oh yes, well, my shower is a funny monster. Since it’s located upstairs, the hot water takes a long time to come up. I suppose since there is a pressurized column of room-temperature water going from my electric hot water heater in my basement all the way up to the second floor, it can take some time to get all of that through the pipes. Furthermore, the pipes are also room-temperature and they tend to suck the heat out of the hot water as it rises up. Once the pipes warm sufficiently (or perhaps when the rate the water is cooled stops stops becoming a factor in the heat moving through the pipe), I get warm water. Knowing it can take some time, I always turn the knob all the way to hot when I first get in. I naturally wouldn’t want any cold water to slow things down even further.
So, like the Memento guy, I forgot about all of this and started to shampoo. When the water begins to get warm, I normally stop shampooing and turn down the heat. However, tonight I did something different. When I felt the water warming up I knew I had to do something, so I went for more shampoo. Not sure why. Do you know what my reaction was as I began to burn? My, why did I put so much shampoo in my hair? “Oh yeh, the water, the water!” I finally came to my senses and turned down the heat.
Hopefully, that errant neural pathway was corrected as a result.
Posted by Nick Codignotto at April 6, 2004 09:20 PM | TrackBack