Cold water

My old and now, for the week, current roommate came back Thursday night mostly blacked out. In the process of trying to remove something particularly nasty from him mattress, he forgot to turn off the faucet. The hot water probably ran for the first hour or so, then stopped.

We figured this out today. Yesterday’s shower was a terrifying experience. The end result was a patchy cleaning, an accelerated heart rate, and a feeling of, if not actually being, dirtiness. I’ve taken cold showers before, but only cold in the sense of the absence of heat.

When I was in the Bahamas and Jamaica doing mission work, we had no heated water, but the result was more slightly under room temperature. This was almost painful, and not something I plan to try again.