It was a mistake from the beginning.Much like cute shoes that also remove skin and bone, I was sucked in by the attractiveness of a bathmat. A cheerful stripey thing that matched the bath, and which was cheap at K-Mart, so it didn't seem like much of a deeply shallow extravagance. It really didn't.
Now I don't know what kind of user testing these things went through, if any. I mean, it's not like a bathmat is some newfangled and complex space-age technology. It's rubber. It has suction cups. It sticks to things. That's its job.
But this bathmat, it likes to travel.
Oh yes, it initially seems happy where it is in the center of the tub. But then, during the course of a shower it gets... I don't know... restless. It starts feeling there are other parts of the bathroom that it hasn't seen yet. That it's wasting its time there in the center of the tub floor.
So it packs its bags and skedaddles.
Before I know it, it's half the way up the tub wall. Or trying to reach the shampoo. Or flattened over the drain. And there I am, up to my ankles in water, trying to drag it back to center again.
Of course THEN, it sticks really well. It fights me. It doesn't WANT to go back where it belongs. It's like some angry toddler having a fit in the center of the mall. I have to tell it I'm walking away and counting to ten. Then it loses some of its will and lets me guide it back into place.
The next shower, it's the age-old battle of "Woman Versus Bathmat" all over again.
So tell me, have you ever bought anything that seemed like a really good idea in theory, but turned out just to not work as you'd hoped?
I think knowing this would make me feel better. Because, you know, those relaxing showers have just gotten a little less relaxing.
Now where the heck is my rubber ducky?
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I hear they don't bathe over at Humor-blogs.
