Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Getting into hot water

A young woman on local radio this morning began an anecdote with: “I was having a bath this morning. Some people here think that’s a bit weird, but the shower is out of action ….”

There was nothing in her tone to suggest that she was being accused of a crime against the planet, making her carbon footprint too big, just weird.

Well it was 5 o’clock in the morning, we learned.

But weird??

In my lifetime we have gone from thinking that being able to have a hot bath in a bathroom any time we liked as the height of luxury, to this.