America is a highly civilized country, developed and giving comfortable living conditions to its citizens. But some features of the life of Americans make our compatriots wonder how they can live comfortably here. I also asked this question when I began to study the oddities of American life. Even the smallest details can vary greatly in our countries. What is good for the American is completely incomprehensible and uncomfortable for the Russian. One such inconvenience is the American shower.
Soul Features in America
The content of the article
- Soul Features in America
- How to do without an elongated soft hose?
- Other oddities of the American bathroom
The first of the inconveniences that a European or a Russian who has come to the United States is facing is a shower room. Everything here is very uncomfortable and deprived of comfort. Plumbing in this country is actually miserable, so it’s better to immediately prepare for the worst.
Several features of the standard shower in America can be distinguished at once:
- temperature and pressure adjustment (in most bathrooms in the USA there is one small lever that simultaneously adjusts and the pressure and temperature of the water flow, a person will not be able to take a hot shower and at the same time not splash around him a lot of splashes);
- stationary shower (short, rigidly fixed flyer that sticks out of the wall and is absolutely motionless, such the device of the soul leads to the fact that a person receives a stream of stagnant water directly in the face immediately after switching on );
- lack of a soft hose (in American plumbing there is no concept of an elongated flexible hose on which to attach shower head; in order to get a familiar shower, the guest of the country will have to take care of replacing the sanitary ware with the European model).
Important! In the bathrooms of most American homes there are many unusual things for us. Plumbing especially attracts the views and dissatisfaction of visiting citizens.
In addition, the bath is usually equipped with a small tap with a button. Using this button you can close the drain hole and draw water into the bathtub. But often the button just loosens, preventing the bath from filling, constantly missing water into the pipe.
How to do without an elongated soft hose?
The absence of a soft hose, which allows you to pick up the diffuser and use it in close proximity to the body during a shower, is completely absent in American showers. To get such a device, the Russians or Europeans have to change the plumbing in the shower, having previously bought such a hose.
It is noteworthy that the Americans themselves do not suffer from the lack of such an important detail of the bathroom. They are used to taking showers often and do not see this as a problem. Russians are used to using a bidet or a soft shower hose after going to the toilet, for example. The lack of it in the bathroom is a real problem.
To wash off the dirt, you have to wash in the shower completely, including the head. This is very inconvenient when you need to take a shower quickly and go on business again. In this case, to give the hair the proper look, you have to use a hairdryer and other devices,.
Important! The lack of a soft hose can be compensated by installing a bidet in the bathroom. But this is not accessible to everyone. In some bathrooms, a large amount of plumbing simply does not fit.
In addition, bidets and other appliances in America have not taken root. They are not popular and are rarely used in interiors. Usually they are installed by individual order, which is very expensive.
Other oddities of the American bathroom
Another feature of a bathroom in the USA is the separate position of the bath and shower. In many houses, the bathtub is located in a secluded corner or in the middle of the room, depending on the style of the interior, and in it you can find only a small tap that should fill the bathtub with water.
In one of the corners is a shower with a stationary shower. Both objects are located at a decent distance from each other, and there is no way to go from the bath to the shower and back without violating the cleanliness of the room. That is, a person who has sat in a foamy bath will pretty much inherit if he intends to go into the shower to wash off the soap.
Also, the toilet is usually located in the bathroom. This item is a unique item. In America, toilets are usually half full of water, and it constantly seems like it is about to overflow. In addition, the toilets are terribly noisy when draining water in them.
I can say for sure that a Russian person in a classic American bathroom will be very uncomfortable. Even such a seemingly unimportant detail as a door that opens inside the room can significantly complicate the life of a person from Russia in America.
