Hot Water - a True Modern Convenience

I woke up this morning to no hot water. I found this out when I went to step into the shower, not a great way to start one's morning. Early morning surprises like that truthfully, don't sit well with me, in fact they tend to put me into a cranky frame of mind, and I ask myself, why me? My husband took his shower the evening before, and there was not an inkling that in less than 12 hours, our hot water would be no more. He got hot water, I got cranky.

I also got crapp-o hair. The water from the shower managed to wet the entire top of my head, while the back stayed completely dry. So I had to pull out the blow dryer, and dry the wet mess, which was not clean, but contained hair products from the day before which when wet tend to morph into a hard cement like substance and become clumpy when exposed to a blow dryer, all in all not a good look. So I fluffed, spritzed and shook, and looked in the mirror and called it quits.

I like hot water. I like the convenience of turning on the tap and blending the right amount of hot and cold to create the perfect water temp for my shower. When I was very young, before I went to school, we lived in Boston in what was called a "cold water flat". No running hot water. Every evening my mother would boil hot water on the stove, pour it into an unbelievably deep sink, and add cool water to create the temp she wanted to use to sink bathe all of us, I am one of five kids. We only had a bath in the bathtub once a week, and that was on Saturday nights. She bathed us in shifts. My older sister and I were always bathed together. I remember my mother boiling huge pots of water on the stove and schlepping them into the bathroom and carefully pouring them into the tub. No wonder a full bath was only done on Saturday nights. I cannot imagine doing that more than once a week.

I like modern conveniences. I like my dishwasher, I like Central Air Conditioning in my home, I like air conditioning in my car, I like my DVR, and I like my cell phone and PC. I cannot imagine living without any of them. I often wonder what my Grandmother (she passed away in 1978, and never had a telephone in her home) would think about how far we have come. I don't think she would quite grasp the concept of Skype. And did I mention that I like Hot Water?

What did I do about the lack of hot water, you ask? I called hubby once I got to work and let him deal with it.

Oh and as a minor postscript to my already crankiness of the day, when I logged onto my computer at work today, I was oh so happy to see that my it had been attacked by a Trojan virus.... I got to my office at 7:30, but I really began my workday day at about 10:00 today, that's how long it took to scan everything and destroy the little critter.

I am hoping that when I walk through the front door tonight, there is hot water to be found once again, and I'm thinking that pehaps an extra cold, delightful adult beverage might help with the crankiness of the day.