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Which way do you stand in the shower?!

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Midnightjowel · 10/01/2025 01:57

So, I’ve spent my whole life facing ‘forwards’ as in, back to the mixer. And for some unknown reason today I flip it and stand facing the shower/ mixer and woah, a new world? Why did nobody tell me it’s about 2782929 times easier to wash my hair this way around 😂

got me thinking- what’s the normal way?!

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StarlightLady · 10/01/2025 03:07

I rotate under the shower head.

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Midnightjowel · 10/01/2025 02:36

paranoiaofpufflings · 10/01/2025 02:35

Radical twist - I have a "rainfall" shower and stand right underneath it!

Oooooh!! I have not reached these dizzying heights of adulthood yet. One day 😂🙏

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paranoiaofpufflings · 10/01/2025 02:35

Radical twist - I have a "rainfall" shower and stand right underneath it!

aurynne · 10/01/2025 02:30

I spin around depending on which part of me wants warm water on it

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Midnightjowel · 10/01/2025 02:29

Ginkypig · 10/01/2025 02:06

I had the same realisation just last year.

i still face forward but I now also turn around to a finish rinse of my hair.i find the back of my head gets more water/more direct water on it if I face the shower rather than have my back to it.

im just as surprised as you. Particularly the part where I had never thought to do it before!

Haha! Same here I thought the shower standing police were going to be after me!
funny though isn’t it all these things you do by routine every day and some are just because whichever caregiver happened to show /tell you how to do and you just never questioned it… 40 odd years later..!

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corvidconvo · 10/01/2025 02:24

I don't like the spray in my face, so I mostly have my back to it and especially when rinsing my hair. I do turn around, though, depending on what I'm washing or rinsing and which product I need to use next.

EBearhug · 10/01/2025 02:11

I move round to get different bits of me wet/rinsed.

fivebyfivebuffy · 10/01/2025 02:07

Back to the shower but I spin around to rinse my front!
Don't like getting water in my face

Ginkypig · 10/01/2025 02:06

I had the same realisation just last year.

i still face forward but I now also turn around to a finish rinse of my hair.i find the back of my head gets more water/more direct water on it if I face the shower rather than have my back to it.

im just as surprised as you. Particularly the part where I had never thought to do it before!