This is a major Life Pro Tip

My wife, to this day, shuts off the shower and then immediately steps out while water is still running off her soaking wet body, inevitably creating a puddle in the bathroom.

"Honey, why don't you drip for like five seconds, or even grab the towel and give yourself a quick dab before you get out?"

The first time I told her this she just stared at me for a solid 20s while her brain rebooted. But then her "never admit anything ever under any circumstances" instinct kicked in and she responded "wow are you really policing my shower habits?"

So anyway, now she knows better, but still does it because marriage is about compromise, or something.

It's a good thing she's not single, I would hate being in a relationship with your wife!
- Thank you for your service, OP
- Anyone whose first instinct is to get defensive when offered good faith advice… yeah keep em away from me
I dry myself completely while still in the shower and it's a mystery to me why not everybody is doing this.
- Because sometimes I leave the towel hanging on the door hook :')
Am I the only one who lays a towel out on the floor in front of the shower? This thread has me thinking what I thought was standard practice might not be.
- Yes, because other people have bath mats...
- Hang towel over shower screen.
  Shower.
  Turn off water.
  Wipe water off body.
  Towel dry.
A (very smart and educated) girlfriend once told me it was so smart how I actually dry off my body with the towel instead of just wrap myself and wait for myself to dry naturally. We only have 4 limbs.
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- me too
She reminds me of my 3rd ex wife.
Oh shit, I do that too! Never occurred to me to stand there and drip for a minute. 😅
I do this out of habit

There's an episode of The Office where Pam and Jim are trying to make Dwight think he's in The Matrix, so they keep arranging "glitches." Pam trains a cat to walk past Dwight's door and then around to repeat it. As they're telling the camera about it, Jim says "Why didn't we just get two black cats?" and Pam looks at him with the expression I imagine this guy had with his girlfriend.

So I may be incredibly high right now, but I've watched all of The Office at least 5 times now and this scene sounds entirely unfamiliar to me. Is it a deleted scene or something? Because that shit sounds hilarious and I'd love to see it.
- Yes they released it when they moved the series to peacock, I didn't know either. Enjoy your surprise new office content
And thats what we call gaslighting!
Very cool, very funny, very good behavior!
/s
- That's not what gaslighting means

When I was about 8 years old my aunt told me she returned a belt to the store because the buckle wouldn't fit through the belt loops in her pants. I'll never forget the look on her face when I told her to put it through the other end first.

Bested by an 8 year-old. What utter humiliation.

My wife started a new job a few years ago, and during training she was shown how to create invoices.

Open the excel template
Fill inn the items, and the prices
Sum all posts USING THE DESKTOP CALCULATOR ...

She was completely dumbfounded.

I'm a professor and require students to submit typed homework as either docx or pdf format - a student wrote their paper in Word, took a screenshot of it (including their desktop), then saved the screenshot in pdf format.
- It was probably cuz you can't run plagiarism checks on it.
- I wouldn't be surprised someone else wrote it.
- I’ve seen pdfs with just a photo of a monitor showing an error message.
The programmer in me died when I read #3
- The compiler in me died when I read #4
I wouldn't equate that to not realising you can let the shower warm up. Not even close.
Don't correct the trainer and reap the benefits, I guess... ¯(ツ)_/¯
- Here's your arm:
The best thing about Excel is the look of hatred you get when using ctrl+; in front of someone who's been manually entering the date through their entire career.
- Ugh.
  At least my Excel efficiency just increased.
- As an engineer, I hate the way excel handle dates

I didn’t realize I could dry off with a towel while still standing in the bathtub/shower until I was 26. Now my bathroom floor doesn’t get wet on a daily basis.

The perfect bathmat is one of those brown fibre door mats, the kind people also use to get their car out of the snow. Always feels dry, never slips, and lasts for years.
- They're so pokey, though!
- Or just one that's more of a rug than a small towel.
- Huh, I tried so many of those over the years and always hated the way they feel. Then a few years back, I discovered mats that are more like towels you can throw on the ground but thicker. So much better. The clincher was that I never knew how to clean the mats, but the towel- like ones can go in the wash whenever towels are cleaned
- Moss is superior because it feels great on the feet and the water falling off you is a feature instead of a problem.
That's what bath mats are for..
- Ok, but why not leave all the water in the spot that actually has a drain for it?
- After you've skimmed the water off, then towel dried inside the shower, the bathmat barely needs to get wet, especially if you step onto your towel when getting out.

So, one day I'm hanging out with my friend, and he introduces me to his friend. Middle-aged guy, seems pretty nice, but he's having a shit day. Why? Because he had to copy something from an email, and he spent about an hour, flipping back and forth between two windows, copying the email into a Word document or something. I was dumbfounded, and I said "Why didn't you just copy-paste?" The guy stalks off with his head down, muttering under his breath.

My boss will purposely screen shot text he writes so I have to rewrite it and not copy paste… not fun.
- You need an OCR tool.
- Now you can use text capture to copy the text from a photo
- Text capture saves hours and hours
  I use Microsoft PowerToys for that and dozens of other QOL life hacks.
- That's when you just screen shot it again and paste the image in where you need it.

I was about 25 years old before I realized I could use warm water to wash my hands in the winter. I'm usually considered a very intelligent individual, but for some reason this never occurred to me. Maybe it's because I grew up poor and we tried to use as little hot water as possible, or maybe I'm just not as smart as people think I am.

I always wash with cold water, but that's just because I'm impatient. Unless I'm about to get intimate with my SO, then my hands gotta be warm.
- Y'all do know warm water cleans better than cold, no matter the weather, right?
I think it’s a little more nuanced. If it wasn’t a problem for you then I see no reason to question your intelligence, if it was a big problem and you didn’t see the obvious solution, then I’d be willing to agree with your reasons
- Yup, I wash my hands with cold water because waiting for the water to heat up takes as much time as actually washing my hands. I can handle 10-20s or whatever of cold water, but waiting 10s just feels wasteful for a quick hand wash.

Reminds me of the guy that spent his entire life sitting on the toilet with the seat up because he was told "girls use it with the seat down and boys have the seat up".

It wasn't until he got comfortable enough with his partner that when she saw him and asked why he wasn't sitting on the seat did it even occur to him that he could.

These people must not have parents 🤯
- Or they have terrible parents.
It wasn’t until he got comfortable enough with his partner that when she saw him
Unless it's your kink, most people don't use the toilet in front of their spouse.
Edit: It sounds like a lot of straight people expel waste in front of their partners.
- That doesn't match my personal experience at all.
  Using the toilet with each other present has been a thing in every relationship I've been in. And no, at no point was that a kink of either one of us.
- I was in your team before having kids. It has been a drastic change I had to adapt to :(

An acquaintance was always complaining about how cold the water was when washing dishes. He had never thought to turn on the hot water.

He and his wife were conservative talk show hosts in Indiana, specializing in talking about how stupid liberals are.

Every accusation is a projection.
Everybody's response to him that knows you can use warm/hot water, "Oh yeah. That's totally the worst part about washing dishes!"

Growing up we had a walk in shower, the way it was setup there was no way to reach in and not get hit by cold water. Especially a short kid with short arms, you were getting a full blast cold water trying to go "out" of the shower. The tap was the push-pull type and very difficult to modulate so limiting to low pressure trickle was basically a game of russian roulette. The best I could do was hug the wall and let it only get whatever corner of my body I wanted to sacrifice to temporary hypothermia that morning.

some people have posted photos of showers in modern upscale hotels, walk-in showers that have a hole through the glass for you to stand safe & warm & dry outside, reach through the hole from the outside to turn on the water.
- This just seems like the wrong way around... Surely it's better to build the shower so the water doesn't go near the tap? Just have the tap off to the side?
  Imagine having a sink where the tap was directly underneath the spout.
- My friends house had a little spout near the floor in his stand up shower, so you could run the water and test the temperature with your toe. When it was good you pulled the stopper like in a bath and it came out of the shower head.
My aunt and uncle had a walk in where the controls were by the door instead of under the shower head. I always thought that was brilliant.
Design > function
This would honestly be a reasonable enough excuse on why the OP was set in his ways from something like this. Once you're conditioned to something it takes a hold on you. How often does a person really question a habit they learned at a really early age?
An alternative solve is to get a handheld shower head so you can point it away from you while it heats up.
- Oh yeah, this was the solution later on. For like kid me? At the time I didn't know you could even replace the showerhead... :(

My previous place heated up very slowly, so I started saving the cold water in a bucket to water my plants because it felt like a waste

This is a great tip actually, the water heater in my house is on the opposite end of both bathrooms but close to the kitchen/laundry so it takes forever to get hot water in the bathroom
I think I will start doing this.
I use mine for my humidifiers

I remember in first or second grade when I realized that, when I made a mistake, I didn't have to erase the whole word and I could just erase the part I messed up.

I’m sorry what?
- Yeah you should try it next time, it's a game changer.
Thankful not to be a medieval monk and having to throw away the whole page / scroll when you make a mistake

reaching into the oven and screaming as he pulls out the cooking tray

Where did the ~~sofa~~ soda go?
- One time I took a pot roast out of the oven and set it on the stove. I turned around to grab something and looked back and thought, no, that needs to be scooted up a bit, and proceeded to grab the handle of the pan that had been out of the oven for all of 4 seconds with my bare hand.
  That hurt.
- Soda?

A friend of mine told me a story once about an intern that was tasked with writing a text. She delivered one page of text and was told to write more. She asked how. She didn't know that you could write more than one page in Word.

What year was this?
- No, I could se this... Fill up a full page and then it jumps to the next, blank page. If she can't see that the first page exists, she may have thought she just erased all her work by typing one too many keys.
  Source: I work in IT and pretty sure I've seen exactly this. Lot's of flavors to the human experience, lemetellyou.
- Oh, way into the 2000s.
Even if that was the case was she too stupid to think of starting a new document?

Someone on Reddit once said they didn't realize the white part of your finger nails are where it's unconnected to your skin, and they'd just clip wherever, and often bleed because they'd clip the skin.

I lived in a place I had to do the opposite. The heater was broken, but the tank was outside exposed to the sun. So to get as warm water as I could, I had to go in right away and get the best of it.

I punched shower sock boy into Duckduckgo and don't see much. Help?
- You punched Shower Sock Boy? Hasn't he been through enough?
I always wash my flip flops in the cold water while waiting for it to warm up. There's probably something productive that everyone can do with the cold water.

Has anyone here ever taken a cold shower on purpose? It's quite invigorating once one acclimate.

Not an entire shower, but I sometimes end with a cooler second rinse.
I go hot for the muscles, pores, and lungs. At the end I wind it down to freezing or as close as I can get, a bit at a time. Typically ends in some kind of barbarian spiritual catharsis involving grunting. Then I picture polar bear club and want to die.
- I like to do the same and put myself face first into the cold ass water and act like I'm some wild man standing under a freezing waterfall and gasping for breath.
  Try it sometime.
I live in a tropical area, so baths and showers are always in cold water. Hot water is for small children and the sick or elderly.
This is apparently a huge culture shock to people coming from the colder parts of my country.
It has some nice health benefits. Tricks your body into suvival mode.
- I have easier ways to provoke a fight or flight response from my brain, such as receiving a phone call from an unknown number, or having to schedule an appointment in advance
Everyday on the southern hemisphere, minus in winter.
Only time I intentionally took a cold shower was after a long bike ride, wearing formal clothing, in the middle of summer. It was freeing and very cold.
- Why the formal clothing?
  Didn't that make it hard to shower?
Sure, on some Arizona summer days.
Cold shower after workout is great for preventing muscle soreness.
The trick is to start at the end of your limbs and move slowly inward until you think you had enough, and definitely not so fast you start to pant: The calmer you are, giving time for the body to switch to the change, the more you'll be able to take, so take it slow. Also don't feel obliged to use only the cold tap, especially in winter that can be rather extreme. Just up to elbows and knees more often than not get you that nice metabolism boost and that's a perfect pre-coffee, OTOH some days are torso days and even others are head days.
- OTOH?
- Nah, just go all in for maximum impact. Bonus: showers take like 2 min.

My version of this was renter's insurance. I knew about home owners insurance, but somehow I assumed that in the case of an apartment the owner would already have insurance. When my oven caught fire I learned that I'd be responsible for it. I don't recall too much of the initial rental process as that was years ago, so I don't know if it were somewhere in the paperwork but I never recalled even being asked about it.

Renters insurance isn't that expensive and worth having. If you rent and the place burns down, none of your stuff is covered by the landlord's insurance. Pretty sure you also can get personal liability coverage in case you get sued.
- I never bothered with renter's insurance. I never had very valuable stuff, and certainly nothing I couldn't afford to replace.
  That was probably stupid, but I own now so I guess I got away with it.
Oooh, this one's even trickier these days because some/rental companies will provide their own rental insurance as part of the lease, and give you no option but to pay for it, citing some obscure law or whatever. The trick though, is that rental insurance doesn't cover you, the rentee, but you don't know that unless you wade through the legalese yourself. Then they try to convince you that you don't need any other renters insurance, because you're already covered, which is of course a bold faced lie.

It took me several years to realize that Canadians were from Canada. Specifically, I didn't connect the spoken words. I was fine with the written words.

- While traveling I convinced a lot of people that Canadia is the official name of the country, Canada is just commonly used because it's easier to say.
Did you wonder why no one is mentioning Canadaians?
- Took me three tries to pronounce this. Love it!
- Not really. I live in a part of the US where the topic of Canada doesn't come up often enough in conversation for me to have questioned it.

When I was 30 I learned that I had pronounced and spelled the German word "unbedingt" wrong my entire life. I thought it was "umbedigt" as in "um jeden Preis". I thought all others spelled and pronounced it wrong or spoke more elaborate than I.

Just pretend you wrote it in Swiss German and you're good!
Gesamt oder gesammt? Kommt doch von Summe
Btw I also pronounce it umbedingt although I know better
Had an argument with my ex once (both speaking german as a third language) about the pronounciation of 'Umgebung', where she made it sound like "Um'g-bung" for some reason. Ended up asking a random train conductor to settle it.
- Oom-gay-bung.
  Germans are gay for the environment.
Ah, don't worry. There are tons of those in the German language. Mine was "Firmament", I thought it was "Firnament". Yours is a bit worse ;)

My hot water tank runs out quick so if I let it warm up it'll be cold by the time I get in.

I'm down to military showers, 8 minutes (heavy scrub independent of the time)

Is 8 minutes considered a fast shower?
- Maybe if you have long hair lol. I'm way faster than 8 mins
It can be a poverty thing too.
If you struggle to pay normal bills, letting it warm up makes the bill higher. So grow up poor, and you find out lots of habits of yours exist to save less than a dollar a day.
- Does water service not come with a base volume in most places? Where I am, we have a base service fee of $20/m and that includes like the first 2000 gallons, and I struggle to even hit that most months. Jumping in a cold shower wouldn't actually save me any money .
As my WW2 veteran grandfather used to say: “armpits and assholes”.
- The Carlin version is armpits assholes crotch and teeth
  https://youtu.be/CgxDdsiXf8U
Letting it warm up means waiting until the water coming out of the faucet/shower head is warm instead of cold.

There was a post with something similar but with the water pressure being too high in the shower. Like, what? Just don't open it all the way then?!

Depends on the tap
I had a very cold shower once until I realized you had to open it all the way to get hot water (no separate hot and cold taps). What a bizarre design.

they actually sell these recirculating pumps to keep the hot water in the pipes

It’s like Reese and the monkfish.

https://youtu.be/B6zQ4E7iTWM?si=T0XZvPm-sBQcaUxb

Pretty mild, though an ex struggled with a standing light for years. It had one of those skinny, turntable hatched poles that you twisted. This one was rather tough to turn to the point that your fingers would slip. I remember looking at her struggling with it one day and asked, "Do you have any rubber bands?"

Same thing. She stopped, stared at me, and got flustered, "I...can't believe I never thought of that...".

There’s a german insult about people who take warm showers

- Du Warmduscher.

You could save water Short Cold showering is healthy

I also don't do it :(

Like how people constantly fill the dishwasher in a way that nothing gets clean and dirty puddles form in the cups.

Some people never played tetris as a kid

The major life protip is the people we met along the way. ;-)

I'd be willing to pay the plumber to put in a couple extra hours and put in a couple more pipe bends, if it meant not getting splashed with cold water every day.

Or you could spend $20 and get one of those shower head extensions so you could hold the shower head way from you until it gets warm.
You would need a circulation pump and a bypass valve on the sink in the bathroom or on the water heater. There still would be a very short period(time depends on pipe layout) of cold water unless you tear out the shower and put the bypass valve at the shower supply.
You wouldn't even need a plumber if you feel comfortable screwing lines together, but you might need an electrician if you can't add an outlet.
They cost under $400 to add, parts only.
- I'm not talking about instant hot water. I'm talking about having the tap not be directly in the firing line of the shower head.
  That way, when the tap is turned on, the initial burst of cold water goes all over the floor, instead of all over the person turning on the tap.

Cold showers warming up isn't an unpleasant experience, especially if you have a warm drink while it's warming or cold drink while it's hot.

Dribking in the shower?
- I definitely wait for the shower to warm up... But hell yeah drinking in the shower is great. I bring my morning coffee with me quite often. And something I'll get done working on something outside and crack a nice cold beer and head in the house and have a shower to clean up, bring my beer with me!