WHAT’S WRONG WITH AMERICA, PART 87 (Three Towels to the Wind) — by Steve Nadis
I went to the Y to swim yesterday, arriving there at the same time as someone else I recognized from the pool. Upon checking in, he requested three towels. I believe he picked three because that’s the maximum allowed under his membership plan. (The maxmum allowed under my membership plan is zero.) Maybe I’m making too much of it, but I don’t know why a guy needs three large towels just to go in the swimming pool. I only need one, and it’s a pretty skimpy one at that. But this guy somehow feels he needs three, as do many other members, I’m sure, under the same membership plan. On the one hand, they’re not doing anything wrong: they’re just taking what comes to them with their membership. But three towels per person per visit means a lot of hot water is going down the drain to clean them, which means a lot of energy is consumed as well. Americans use more energy per capita than any other nation on Earth and this is one of the reasons why.
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Plus, have you tried buying a towel in a store, any store, lately? Brick & mortar or online, I don’t know when it happened, but somehow the standard size is now 30″ x 54″ and as my husband says, nobody needs that much towel. They’re HUGE, like a beach towel! I ended up ordering from a hotel supply place that still had semi-normal sizes (largely because of the laundry considerations you mention).
- Regular reader Carol
Good point, Carol. Do you want to supersize that towel? –Snake
oh shut up. I want 3 towels, I pay for 3 towels, I’ll use 3 towels. Why don’t you sacrifice your own, to make up for it?
I wish I could get the minute back that I just wasted reading about that. Too many towels? Do you really have so little going on in your life that you fret about a guy liking extra towels? I’m going to go throw away some unused paper in protest of that lame post now.
Sad to say I do have so little going on. Plus I’m always on the lookout for something new to complain about… –Snake
Its amazing that suddenly a planet that has survived meteor hits, volcanic eruption and plate tectonic crashes will now be thrown into chaos by a man who uses 3 towels. I wonder how many towels are used in Al Gore’s pool house daily. The funny thing is one day you gonna realize that this thing that has given you so much purpose in life is just a money making scam bigger than Iraq, haliburton and enron put together and while your golden boy cruises around in private jets and limos saying “do as i say not as i do” you concern yourself with this nonsense. so continue drying yourself off with hand towels and searching for eco-friendly hair gel and in the end you will have made absolutely no difference in what has always been an incredibly adaptive and resilient world.
You win Anon; you have rendered me speechless. Maybe 3 towels is not such a big deal after all. But 4 towels…, don’t get me started. –Snake
Is Sheryl Crow your girlfriend? You have a lot in common…
She might have had a shot at me earlier but I’m afraid that now I’m “taken”… –Snake