Maybe You Don't Want to Visit

I’d like to talk for a minute about the shower in my bathroom. Here is a picture:

I guess shower, is a maybe a loose word for this contraption, which I think most people in my apartment do use as a shower, i.e. not a bath/shower combination. I don’t know them well enough yet to ask, but I’ve been planning out a line of questioning for a few days now. At first inspection, I thought, okay, you just stand up at the far end of the tub and use the shower attachment. I didn’t take height into account though. I’m too tall to stand up in this shower. What ends up happening is a complicated combination of squatting and kneeling. It’s a little painful.

While we’re at it, let’s talk about this sticker that’s on the inside lid of our toilet:

When I first saw it, I thought it was a joke that wasn’t really funny. In general though, our apartment and the apartment building are very serious. In fact, I don’t think there’s anything funny anywhere. Actual instructions, then? I guess it’s up for debate.

Let me just mention a sign that was posted over the door inside the bus back from Altenberg as tangential evidence. It read: "Vor dem Hinausstreten sind die Kleider zu ordnen." In other words: before getting out of the bus, make sure your clothes are orderly. There’s lots of advice being given out around here. There are hard-core rebels hiding out somewhere, I know it.