Fire Water:
What’s that line of Pierce Brosnan’s in Dante’s Peak, ‘if you drop a frog in boiling water it’ll jump right out, but if you drop it in water, and slowly raise the temperature, it’ll stay there and boil to death’? Taken literally, that describes my winter shower habits to a tee!
When I get in the water temperature is just about luke warm, but then I start adding more hot water to the flow every few seconds. When that no longer has any effect, I gradually reduce the amount of cold water in the mix. By the time I step out, my skin is pinky-red all over.
Fortunately, I’m nowhere near as bad as people like my father. You know, the ones who shower/bath with water ready to boil an egg in, and come out a slight shade of tomato!
If you think about those days at the beach too - you know, sitting there on the beach roasting away under the sun’s rays - you gotta start asking yourself, why do we like trying to cook ourselves?!
