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ken, I have no idea why, but this post made me think back to the days of visiting my great grandparents (yes, I said great)…perhaps it was the question about remembering bathing before tubs and showers. Anyhow, bath night included pumping water (from an inside hand pump) into a huge pot, heating that pot on a wood stove, pouring the water into a smallish (oh so smallish — even for a kid) tub. I can remember the “feel” of my great grandparent bathroom, I can remember the smell (an even though they had a non-flush toilet with a pail that had to be carried out, for some reason it wasn’t a bad smell either…strange, that.) Anyway, thanks for inadvertently bringing back a memory that reminds me of some very special people and very special times…
Debbie
The coldest “bath” I ever took was doing a polar dip through a hole in the ice in celebration of my 50th birthday!
Debbie, WE used to do this all the time in Minnesota. What memories.
Ken
The coldest showers I have taken were on missions trips to the Philippines. The places I stayed did not hot water. Cold showers every day! I actually learned to like them!
Mark,
I love a cold shower
Ken
I love this article! Made me laugh right out loud! I don’t blame your wife and kids for bathing “clothed” after your experience! LOL!!! I am 70 now but when I was 3 to 6 years old we did not have electricity nor inside plumbing. We kids “bathed” outdoors naked, during gentle rainfalls; never thunder or lightning storms … and yes, we lived way out in the country with no one near us for miles. Other times we bathed in the river and got to ride the rapids.
Sharon,
Many river baths when I was a kid. I was also baptized in a river.
Ken
I can’t remember a cold bath but the coldest shower I remember taking was after I woke up in the morning drenched because of my first ever night sweat. Ahhh…that ice cold shower never felt better! 🙂
Wow! Your story took me back to days when we spent summers with our grandparents. With no indoor plumbing, taking a shower meant hooking a hose over a nail and bathing in absolutely freezing water coming straight from a very deep well. Our screams could probably be heard throughout the entire county. Thanks for bringing back the memories.
I used to attend a music festival called Cornerstone. The showers were nasty and you never felt clean. Coming home and getting in a real shower made me feel clean, new, and refreshed.
Hi Ken,
I have recently had a horrifying experience involving ice cold water. My dad had forgotten to order the gas so when we ran out, there were only cold showers to be taken…I was holding out for a few days until the gasman came but to no avail, I had to have a shower for my football team photos(AFL, different football to you 🙂 So I stepped into the water turned it on and felt like I had begun having an asthma attack, the water literally was ICE COLD. What I wanted to know is why the water from our fridge can’t be that cold and somehow my shower manages to whip up a liquid ice box for me…something seems wrong about this. Thanks again for your stories…
Jarrad
James,
Yeah but you knew you were alive.
Ken
Love the new “Life” lessons standing naked in an icy Mountain stream. You are such a good writer.
Thanks Wanda!
At my grandparents, it was a galvanized tub, filled with water heated on the woodstove. Luckily I was the eldest and got the water first!
Vesta,
YES! That is my memory as well. How horrible it was to be the last one in that tub. I also was the oldest so I got the water before it was contaminated by my sisters. I thought I was the only one who ever did this.
Ken
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Great article.