My city is in the middle of the worst drought in recorded history. My showers are typically under 2 minutes and I have to shower with a bucket to catch otherwise wasted water to use to flush the toilet. I also shut the water down when I am wet enough so I can scrub myself without having unneeded water flowing then start it back up to rinse.

Plus, water is damn expensive!

Who here really has the time to stand, think and waste in the shower?

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Well I live in a rainy part of the UK, and we basically had rain all month, so longer showers are probably more likely helping avoid the reservoir flooding over here

I guess the one upside to this situation is our water isn’t even metered, we just pay a flat rate every quarter

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a rainy part of the UK

Well that’s a bit redundant, isn’t it?

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Innit?

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Okay, fine, rainier part

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I live in the wettest region of south west australia nearby the historically coldest, wettest town in the state. We normally get 9 wet months a year but we’re are half way through the season and so far only had 1.5 wet months.

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Clime change deniers: this is fine

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Dam

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Nah that’s in the Netherlands

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Who here really has the time to stand, think and waste in the shower?

People not in a drought. It’s been quite wet here in Switzerland recently :-D

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Lucky you. The rising temperature has driven the low pressure systems south and they mostly seem to be bypassing the whole south of australia. I hope this doesn’t mean now we will start getting cyclones where we are at…

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I believe you’re looking for thoughtsaboutshowers.

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But… Thoughts about showers aren’t also shower thoughts?

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Only if they happen in the shower, and there’s no way you had time to think about all that during a drought.

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You caught me out, it was while I was dressing after my shower.

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I don’t use a shower, rather, I have a bucket (or two) of water and a dipper. I can ruminate and think about things while giving myself a thorough scrubbing, and not consume any water.

I can take as much time as I need (much to the irritation of people I live with) without consuming any more water.

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The Reassurance Bucket thoughts.

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It’s bucket time!

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And then he bucketed all over the place

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