The Shower From Hell

In our flat, the plumbing is pretty touchy. This means that you can't flush the toilet, use the kitchen sink etc if someone is in the shower. The result is that the person in the shower gets scalded with boiling hot water. Also, sometimes the water gets stuck. So, if you are trying to fill the kitchen sink to do the dishes, no water comes out. You then need to toddle off to the bathroom, turn on the bath taps and wait for water to come through there. Once that is done, you go back to the kitchen where the kitchen taps will now work fine.

Little quirks, but we can live with that.

So I am minding my own business in the shower, just in for a quick one, shower cap on etc.

It is one of those showers over the bath and the bath is quite high. So for me with short legs, it is like trying to get on a horse to actually get into the bath.

All of a sudden, the water is scalding hot. I push the shower head away, thinking nb must have filled the kettle. I then lean down to change the water temperature. Somehow, I then lose my footing and I land on my butt on the bath edge. My centre of gravity is cerntainly not where it should be, so I proceed to fall back first from the bath (from a great height), taking the shower curtain, rod and floor to ceiling shelving with me.

I land on the floor with a crash and a squeal. Amazingly enough, I am still clutching the bar of soap in my hand. And still have the shower cap on my head.

I didn't hurt myself too bad, but I have a nasty purple bruise down my right arm and another on my left arm.

Nerdboy goes on to tell me I could have ended up in traction and that it wouldn't have gone down too well if I had to contact my new employer advising that I can't start work as I am in head to toe plaster.

Our flatmate reckons that nb is just trying to protect his interests of being a kept man!