CURTAIN CALL
I have had a shower without the luxury of having curtains all around. I am not in favor of everyone going to that economical style unless one has suitably heated water precisely and plentifully supplied to the expertly-holed overhead bucket and no wind blowing. Such make-shift showers are cold at all times. I remember such inundations only as a military misery.
We have plastic shower curtains where we live at the present time. We have them because they were here when we bought the place ten or twelve years ago. I doubt if they would have been our choice had we been able to be selective when we moved in. Each is made up long sheets of plastic, perhaps, and quarter of an inch think, set upright in six-inch widths and made so they fold together at either end like an accordion's bellows.
The rascals can pinch, too, if given the chance to do so and one learns to get in and out with attentive movements and caution. They can be noisy, too, which is another reason they have been been marked for replacement for years. They ratchet along like a stick being dragged across a picket fence. They have proved to be very durable, however, , and the only fault with them, I think, is that one of the little plastic knobs which are used to drag it to the end has given up it's roots and departed to dowel heaven as of several years ago.
So, there has been no sense of urgency about getting rid of them. I do know, for a fact, however, that material has been purchased from which fabric shower curtains will be fashioned. One set will be blue, to match the ceramics of the tub-shower, the other green, to comply with the décor demanded by it's walk-in shower enclosure. That's the way we tell them apart when we have grandchildren in.
All that re-do, however, might take some time.We have curious situation in our household in regard to new fabrics. They arrive ,usually from a special sale of some sort, and once they get stashed away with other sewing supplies and materials.”Thereby hangeth the rub!” a tailoring-mind bard might say, because the latest acquisition may be hidden under a still newer one an older one which has been moved about a bit to make room.
I'm certain the pleated, plastic partitions will go, in time, but the new curtains are being held up in the Design Department somewhere, waiting, perhaps, for the juncture of the proper zodiac signs. In the meantime, we are stuck with the stickers because they do jam and the bottom edge now and then, or at the top - or both at the same time.
They are “Old-Fahioned-Mod", I'd say, if there is such a designation.
Come to think of it! Who was it who got shot in the shower years ago on ”Dynasty”? Our curtains are just right in case somebody wants to re-do that closing episode of a long-ago TV season.
A.L.M. January 9, 2003 [c515wds]
