> Seeing as how we haven't done much else that day that is worth writing about, I'll mention everyone's favorite tourist game, "How Do You Work The Shower?"
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Boy, do I know that game well. Reeeeaaallly well. On my recent trip to Europe, we stayed in five different facilities - three Mariott hotels (in Amsterdam, London County Hall - right next to Beasty's work! - and London Heathrow), a bungalow in Holland, and a small canal boat in England. All of these places had different and distinctly weird showers.

The weirdest was the one on the canal boat, because you had to press all these buttons to operate pump things to get RID of the water once you were done with the shower.

I ended up accidentally half-freezing myself in the London County Hall one... not once but twice (if Beasty noticed a blue tinge to my skin when meeting me, I blame the shower) and almost did a boiling number at the bungalow. Hmm, nothing like turning the tap, realizing that you got the Dutch words for 'cold' and 'hot' mixed up, and having to jump out of the way as scalding hot water plummets from the stupid wide shower head! Especially when said hot water runs out in 30 seconds, leaving one forced to take The Cold Shower of DOOM.

Sosi"and you thought Monkeyman's shower commentary was scary..."qui