If you’ve ever had long hair, and lived in a place with hard water, you would not be asking this question.
Winning hypothetical arguments
Spotted a fellow neurospicy
ENJOYING A RARE MOMENT OF FEELING GOOD.
I got a heat pump water heater damnit, let me enjoy the fruits of its efficient labor.
Disassociate
Basking in the hot water
Nothing bad can happen in the shower. It is the safest liminal space imaginable, and its pleasant to just be there. Im gonna linger for as long as i can
I wouldn’t call it a liminal space; a liminal space is a place that’s usually crowded but now became empty. Do others often see crowded showers?
I’ve always understood liminality as the intermediate between two states :shrug:
Crying
Waterfall meditation
Getting away from all you people that question why I take long showers of course.
Warm water feel good
I’m dissasociating for a bit leave me alone. Also I have exceedingly long and thick curly hair, takes forever to go through my process.
What, is it a fucking race?
A couple minutes while the water heats up to undress and brush tangles outta my hair.
A couple minutes to rub in shampoo, massage into the scalp, and rinse.
A couple minutes to rub in conditioner, brush it through my hair, massage into the scalp, and rinse.
A couple minutes to scrub my body with soap and rinse.
A couple minutes to enjoy the warmth of the water and make sure everything is fully rinsed off.
A couple minutes to rinse stray hairs and soap suds off the shower walls.
A couple minutes to dry off, maybe 4 or 5 if I really wanna get my hair dry.
A couple minutes re-brushing the tangles outta my hair.
A couple minutes putting oil in my beard/hair, then coming/styling my beard/mustache.
A couple minutes brushing my teeth.
A couple minutes putting clothes on.
At minimum it’s a 22-minute affair, but let’s round up to 30 because it’s the first thing in the morning and I’m not moving as fast as I could be yet. What’s the problem with any of the stuff on that list? What am I doing that’s too slow for the 10-minute showerers (whom I never question for taking 10 minute showers, btw)?
rub
scrub
Exactly. Of course I can make myself wet slather some soap on my body. That’s not washing, though. Washing means to scrub until squeaky clean. I have observed people go in the shower stinky and come out only slightly stinky. Why?
Then there’s things like remove hard skin from the feet, cut nails, shave.
Use a fascial scrub on the face.
After the shower applying facial cream and body lotion also takes a little time.
Finally: collect hair from drain, dry off water that sploshed around
It takes me 2 minutes to brush my teeth. Nearly 6 to floss.
I am not ashamed that it takes me 10 minutes to scrub, 5 minutes to shampoo, 5 minutes to condition, 5 minutes to face-shave, 10 minutes to rinse, and a few more minutes for using the artificial pumice stone.
how often are you shampooing for a full 5 minutes??
I don’t wear my watch in the shower, but given my hair length, comparing intuitively to the length of time it takes to floss (which was timed), probably most times. Though, rarely I will do a quick shower and not shampoo (or condition) my hair.
It takes longer than 10 minutes just to dry my hair properly
Takes some time to wash the silt of the times, from my soul.
Also, the whole fast pace / no rest / ultra productive mindset has been around for eons, basically the rich don’t believe the poors are entitled to any rest, relaxation or even just taking time with things, because that takes away from the money you’re making them, so therefore you’ll see that sentiment, seeded into culture, consistently, (I can’t for the life of me think of the current buzz words this early in the morning, and sans coffee). There’s always new buzzwords for it. Read any “I can do this faster than you” as them, the bourgeois, ordering you back to work.
