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[noahgibbs]

You remember the oddest things. This morning I was recalling a couple of them.

Years ago, a girl I was dating had long hair and so did I. We wound up spending a lot of shower time picking up hairs from each other as the water dislodged them, and putting them on the shower wall. This was mainly for the good of the drain (two long-haired people that shed often), but was also a neat, kind of comforting grooming ritual. Naturally we'd remove the hair from the tile wall after showering.

And several years ago, on the first houseboat trip I went on, there were spiders out on the water. Appparently they were ballooning spiders or some relative, because there were long, thin drifts of spiderweb floating free out over the water, not attached to anything, and the webs and spiders just floated by. It meant that sitting up top you got the occasional random spiderweb (and more rarely, a spider) settling on you that you had to remove, but it was also pretty neat. Sitting further back on the boat meant that the boat would catch most of them for you on the big shade on the front.

Houseboats are excellent.

Comments

[mg4h.livejournal.com]

I'm not the only long-haired person who does that, I see. I try to pull out all the loose hairs before I go in the shower, but there will always be some that fall out later, and I do stick them on the wall of the shower just like that. Odd.

I don't feel like such an oddball now. Thanks.
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[sheenaqotj.livejournal.com]

I thought sticking hair on the wall was pretty efficient when I first started doing it, on my own. But... I usually left it up there, which could be considered pretty disgusting.

My ex-bf Dave would try to find something that it spelled, and noticed "Help!" and "Sheena" in there at different times. He also claimed that there is enough of it in there to grow another Sheena, and there is much more there now that he's been gone. I think it must have scared the people who came to unplug my drain away :P