The Shower Curtain

Did you ever buy a shower curtain liner on sale thinking you got a fantastic deal, then got it home and out of the package to find it was the tissue paper version of a shower liner? We did. And we got the onslaught of the curtain with it.

First, it threatened to block all ability to wash. Then it crept up on us, grabbing a hold of our lower legs, then suddenly, unstoppably sucked itself to the entire lower two-thirds of our side. No matter what we did to keep its attack under control it was having none of it! Its rampage deterred our washing abilities as we wrestled it with one hand and tried to wash with the other hand. Eventually, we were victorious…in getting clean, not in overcoming the shower curtain.

Did you know the reason why a decent shower liner has weights or magnets is because if it doesn’t – which we discovered as truth with our adventures with the tissue paper shower liner – it plasters itself to your body? It is a constant tussle with plastic tissue paper.

We wrestled with that curtain just long enough (not more than a week!) to replace it. Now we will never forget to watch for “magnets” or “recycled glass weights” or something – and never buy a really cheaply priced liner again.

Thank God the other curtain was a cloth curtain... The things we learn the hard way. If only we would remember our important lessons as easily.