Pool Shower Time

The hot water or gas ... or something in this house is broken. And it seems that it will cost a lot of money to fix it. That means no hot showers. But for the Japanese people, who have grown up in Japan where bathing in hot springs (With a bunch of other naked people -same gender of course) is normal and accepted, the problem is not too severe.

Except I have not grown up that way. In fact I don't remember ever having a problem not getting hot water. So this is new to me, and as I have a huge problem with my self confidence and standing naked in front of strangers my options are limited as to where I can take a hot shower until the problem is fixed.

That is where the Pool comes in. In this town we have a public pool/gym building for exercise and recreational purposes. And, like Canada, there are shower rooms with showers on timers. In my case we have to pull down a sort of lever and hot/warm water will come out of the shower head. You can control the temperature of the water but you cannot control how long the water will last. Since yesterday was the first time that I had to go to the pool for other reasons than to swim I could tell you that the max amount of time that the water came out of the shower head was 10 seconds. Now I am not complaining because I am thankful that I can still shower but it was annoying flailing around with shampoo all over me trying to blindly find that lever so I could rinse it off.

Walking into a change room with topless old ladies, no matter where I am in the world, will still make me feel awkward.