So I was in my hostel in Reykjavik, and I decided to take a shower. The showers are all in common bathrooms off the hallway. The water in Reykjavik is heated almost completely using geothermal sources, so it is always quite toasty. Sometimes it smells faintly of sulfur, though.

The shower had the normal large mosquito-catchers perched around the inside, and one large, dead spider caught between the wall and the wall of the next shower, but experience had showed these to be harmless, so I was unworried. Like most European showers, space was extremely limited, with very little room to move about. It occurred to me that perhaps this was why European women didn't shave their legs... they couldn't reach them without being a contortionist.

The shower knobs were also a little tricky: a very slight turn could mean a big difference in shower temperature, and it didn't say which one was hot and which was cold, or which way you turn them to get yourself more of either. The shower head was of the type that came off its cradle so you could hold it like a paddle.

So it was that I turned a wrong knob. The water turned very hot and started to burn me. I quickly turned the cold knob. The wrong way. The water turned scalding. There was no where in the shower where I could move to escape the stream of water. I reached up and grabbed the shower head to turn it into the wall. Instead it fell off its cradle. It hit the ground and started spinning around wildly about its cord, scalding my legs on every pass. The pain was blinding! I had to escape! I opened the door to the shower and stepped out on the the floor. I slipped catastrophically and fell against the stall door. I finally came crashing to the ground. The shower head had turned so that it was spraying burning water in an arc right out the door of the shower and onto my body. I grabbed the shower head and pointed it back into the shower. I had cut my foot all the way down the top, and it was bleeding. Another cut was between my toes and one on the bottom of my foot, perfect for the floor of a hostel bathroom. As I lay on the floor, a mosquito came and landed on my fried, red, still burning and exposed leg.
I killed it.

THAT SHOWER SUCKED!!!

:O omg i never knew showers could be so dangerous!!!


i hope your foot gets better!!!!!!!!!!


and at least the mosquito didnt bite you
^-^
» Ruby-in-slippers on 2008-08-31 09:28:59

Ouch. That shower certainly needs to be fixed.
» Nuttz on 2008-08-31 11:02:43

-wince-
That sounds like a scene from a Ben Stiller movie. Don't get an infection!
» middaymoon on 2008-08-31 11:47:38

The mosquito was just present to add a bit of comedy to the experience. As he was killed, I guess it was a bad joke. :]

Hope the wound heals up quickly.
» yourcupoftea on 2008-08-31 12:38:22

Ouch! And I thought Barcelona was bad.
» jinyu on 2008-08-31 01:22:55

You should become an erotic novelist.

That was hot.

GET IT? GET IT? 'CAUSE THE SHOWER.. 'YA KNOW.. IT WAS A HOT SHOWER.. AND ..
» Dilated on 2008-08-31 01:45:14

That sounds like an epically bad shower. I hope you never have to endure that experience again.
» zachstabbedme on 2008-08-31 04:50:47

That reminds me of the rust water shower i had to deal with for a year and a half, that had sum of those characteristics...
» CPKviperpheonix on 2008-08-31 10:57:07

That could possibly win for 'worst indoor experience ever'. :S
» randomjunk on 2008-09-01 03:59:37

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