Showers
April 4th 2008 08:10
For years my wife kept a shower chair she’d bought at a garage sale because she thought my mother might one day need it. My mother was fairly independent however, and had no need of some damfangled shower chair.
Nor have we ourselves have ever thought of using shower chairs; even now that my mother has died, the one
we kept for so long is eking out its remaining years in the glass house, where it serves as a stand for the clothes basket. No doubt it feels some ignominy in this, but at least it hasn’t gone to the great recycling place where most things that are no longer wanted around our house have gone.
I was talking to my son about recycling and climate change and saving water and electricity and such the other day and was quite surprised to find him fairly offhand about it all. This is interesting, as I have a vivid memory of being told off by him, when he was only a secondary school pupil, because I was allowing water to run freely while I brushed my teeth. Plainly the message got through to me long-term but only short-term for him!
At that time I had the idea that water was kind of indestructible; that there would always be water because it no sooner went down the drain and out into the ocean than it was back up in the sky and getting ready to pelt down on us again. But there was talk even then of it being limited in supply. I still find this rather hard to believe, but I’m a bit more careful about how I use it now, at least.
Nor have we ourselves have ever thought of using shower chairs; even now that my mother has died, the one
Amandanwpa's cat with shower chair
I was talking to my son about recycling and climate change and saving water and electricity and such the other day and was quite surprised to find him fairly offhand about it all. This is interesting, as I have a vivid memory of being told off by him, when he was only a secondary school pupil, because I was allowing water to run freely while I brushed my teeth. Plainly the message got through to me long-term but only short-term for him!
At that time I had the idea that water was kind of indestructible; that there would always be water because it no sooner went down the drain and out into the ocean than it was back up in the sky and getting ready to pelt down on us again. But there was talk even then of it being limited in supply. I still find this rather hard to believe, but I’m a bit more careful about how I use it now, at least.
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