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[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 311 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (31 children)

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.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 81 points 8 months ago (11 children)

I give myself knife hands over my body before going for the towel. Towel stays significantly more dry and I can use it several times before it needs a wash.

[–] WhoIsTheDrizzle@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I got ridiculed for doing this by my partner. I do it very quickly and vigorously, it just makes a ton of sense to me; I end up being dry faster and more efficiently than going straight to the towel.

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 74 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I squeegee my whole body with my hands before stepping out

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[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 37 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It's a good thing she's not single, I would hate being in a relationship with your wife!

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[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I dry myself completely while still in the shower and it's a mystery to me why not everybody is doing this.

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[–] Robert7301201 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] OrangeJoe@lemm.ee 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, because other people have bath mats...

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 150 points 8 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] Boy_of_Soy@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

Yes they released it when they moved the series to peacock, I didn't know either. Enjoy your surprise new office content

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[–] phlemmy@lemmy.ca 140 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 41 points 8 months ago

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

[–] StThicket@reddthat.com 120 points 8 months ago (10 children)

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

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

She was completely dumbfounded.

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 46 points 8 months ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 85 points 8 months ago (25 children)

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.

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 85 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] fetter@lemm.ee 44 points 8 months ago (5 children)

My boss will purposely screen shot text he writes so I have to rewrite it and not copy paste… not fun.

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 55 points 8 months ago (5 children)
[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

Or a new job with a boss that's not a wanker.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 83 points 8 months ago (9 children)

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.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 54 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The tree of knowledge is enormous. We’re all bound to miss a thing or two. Most people might not ever come across a situation where they are missing that knowledge or they live their whole lives not realizing. Fuck I wonder how many things I haven’t realized yet?

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[–] 48954246@lemmy.world 79 points 8 months ago (17 children)

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.

[–] Two2Tango@lemmy.ca 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

These people must not have parents 🤯

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[–] TengoDosVacas@lemmy.world 66 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

Every accusation is a projection.

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[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 64 points 8 months ago (13 children)

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.

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[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 62 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 58 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (11 children)

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

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 56 points 8 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 33 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I can't do that. If I mess a word up the whole thing is dead.

Same for passwords. If I feel I missed a key, in deleting the whole thing and starting it over

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[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 54 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 52 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Rand0mA@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

This sounds like when that podcast dude realised you shit directly in the toilet and not in your hand first

https://youtu.be/xZ-SlTaCFfQ

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[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] DreamDrifter@lemmynsfw.com 40 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I have allergy meds on me at all times, because sometimes I break out in hives for no reason.

One day, I'm sneezing like crazy from seasonal allergies, and my coworker asked if I tried any medicine. I suddenly realized allergy medicine works for allergies

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[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 29 points 8 months ago (24 children)

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

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[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] CbtB@lemmynsfw.com 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I always knew I could let the shower warm up but it seemed wasteful and I found the cold invigorating so I did it that way until about 40. Something shifted and it was unpleasant instead of invigorating. Signs of getting old I guess.

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