The good thing about growing older is that I can still remember things both from my youth and from my recent past. Not all people can do that. So is a blessing.
Twenty years ago I worked out with a personal trainer five days a week. We became friends of sort - you share life experiences when you are in close proximity 45 minutes each day five days a week. He lived a couple of blocks away from me in Key West. I knew the property. There were four or five one bedroom apartments. He told me his building had an outdoor shower and that he shaved his entire body every day. Every day. With hot water. With hot water!
He was a twenty-something former wrestler with a great build. He was obsessed with himself. This was a short time before selfies came into existence. Now everyone seems to be obsessed with themselves. But his shaving everyday seemed particularly vain. And costly to his landlord. I discussed the water usage with him. It did not concern him - it was the landlord's obligation to provide hot water.
A man I sold a house to a few years ago recently complained about his gay tenant. It is not that the tenant is gay, it is that the guy is a professional gay with OCD. The owner mistakenly permitted the tenant to use his pool when the owner is not home and to use his washer and dryer which are located outside (common in maybe half the homes in town), and to use his outdoor shower which is filled with orchids (not the shower in the above photo but similar). The customer said the tenant takes a shower before he goes to the Island House gym which has a steam room then takes another shower when he returns from the gym. The guy swims in the pool and takes another shower afterward. And so on. He also washes his towels and bedding constantly. The good thing is the tenant does not wear a lot of clothing.
It is illegal to discriminate in housing. But maybe it should not be to some people.
Ya'll know I am kidding about the maybe part.
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