We appear to have a serious problem that I was not aware of until this morning. The following is a copy and paste from an article written by Laura Rowley of www. moneyandhappiness.com
A recent study found that showerheads are apparently a nightclub of sorts for bacteria — a warm, dark haven to party and multiply. An analysis of 50 showerheads from nine U.S. cities found about 30 percent contained high levels of a strain of bacteria that can cause lung infections when inhaled or swallowed. The levels were 100 times higher in showerheads than in typical household water, the researchers found.
Now what do we do?!!! We can no longer take showers! My first thought is that if you are married, and only if you are married, you could shower together. That would mean that two bodies were absorbing the load of danger instead of one. I think that means an individual body would only be getting half the dangerous exposure. Wait…is that right? Hum…maybe not. Well in that case we need to look for another solution.
We all have to take baths from now on. That’s the answer…maybe…I really don’t know though because as I think about it the first thing to enter the bath water is a pair of stink’n feet, followed closely by a, how should I put this…oh yes, a dirty derriere. Now we are going to wash the rest of our bodies, including our faces with water that has been you know where. Yes, but it will be soapy derriere water, that aught to count for something. Which by the way brings us to the rinse cycle. After the bath comes the rinse, and that means pouring or splashing that wonderful soapy rear end water over our “clean” bodies. Seems kinda hard to get soap off of a body with soapy water doesn’t it? So after the bath we should rinse off by using one of those hand held show…er…hea…no that won’t work it’s full of the bacteria that started this mess in the first place.
Ok,ok, I got it! The last time I was in Honduras we all bathed in the river. That takes care of the contaminated showerhead thingy while at the same time making it possible to rinse off with clean water. The soapy water has been taken down stream by the flow of the river. That only works of course providing there is no one bathing up stream from you, cause if someone is up stream you are rinsing in their soapy, dirty, derriere water, or should that be soapy, dirty derriere water, well whatever. So, if you find yourself having to bathe with a group of other folks you have to always make sure you are up stream from everyone else. If someone has died and made you boss you can simply tell the others in the group that you will be up stream. If you have not been empowered by being proclaimed boss then you just have to get in the water and out run everyone who is trying to get up stream further than you.
Now let me explain the other problem with this “let’s all go down to the river to bathe” thing. Bathing in the river whether in ones BVDs or necked is proof positive that all men are not created equal. That realization can be very damaging to ones self-esteem. I mean if you, like me, can be described as looking like a nine-months pregnant skin covered skeleton, you don’t want to be wet’n and wipe’n next to some two hundred pound chunk of sculptured steal. There is one other aspect of Honduras river bathing to be considered. When you head to the river you seem to draw a crowd. Every kid in the area gets word that the Americans are bathing in the river, and they all make their way done to join you. Suddenly that small group of four dirty dentist and their two filthy assistants has now become a community cleansing. Well, I guess that kills the river washing thingy becoming popular in the US, I mean kids and grown ups sharing a soaping is not a good thing.
Till next time,
Grump