Pro tip: if you’re going to shower at the gym make sure you have a towel BEFORE you get all wet

  • limer@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Just because:

    A towel, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

    Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

    Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1))

  • BootLoop@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Make sure you remember your lock combo before locking your belongings up when you take a shower. I came back to my locker and couldn’t open it once. No phone, no glasses, just flip flops in a towel. Not a fun experience. Thankfully I remembered the code before too embarrassingly long.

  • Mesophar@pawb.social
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    2 days ago

    Do you usually just walk back from the shower to your locker dripping water everywhere?

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    2 days ago

    I’ve done that before. It sucked cause it was also 14°F out. So I had to drive home in the cold while wet.

    • tyrant@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 days ago

      I don’t have Facebook though. And I was all wet. Seemed appropriate

        • ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 days ago

          Classically “Showerthoughts” were more along the lines of the Philosoraptor meme topics. I even found one that both fits this description and the literal comm name. However, people in this comm tend to take the concept super literally. Incidentally, a trend that seems to pervade most humor these days, too.

          • ripcord@lemmy.world
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            1 day ago

            That may be what reddit said they were, but this is not reddit. Most of the ones that people complain about fit the community description just fine.