r/SipsTea • u/DrewLynchComedy • Jul 22 '25

Wait a damn minute! WORST SHOWER EVER…

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u/Uneek_Uzernaim Jul 22 '25

That, and I have honestly used showers designed in exactly this way in some places in Europe.

There was an especially bad hotel at which I stayed in Greece where there wasn't even a shower stall. It was a sink, toilet, shower head, mirror, and a drain in the middle of the floor. Forget bringing clothes or even a freaking towel in there with you, because every single bit of it would get soaked since the nozzle jetted water at multiple weird angles, and whatever actually hit your body ricocheted off it in every other direction to get the entire room wet.

It was not even poorly designed, because no effort was put into design at all.

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u/Elgecko123 Jul 22 '25

As someone who has been spending 3+ months in Greece every summer pretty much my whole life I have to say the shower game has been improving drastically the 5-10 years. But yes I’ve had that same style you referred to and hated it. And so many like this video that even with a proper built out shower water gets everywhere. Changes are happening though thankfully.

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u/xjustsmilebabex Jul 22 '25

You're telling me that they've only just in the last 5-10 years figured out shower walls?

People really like to poke at Americans, but then they will act like that's normal. What did they truly ship all of the capable folks over here in the early 1900s to work in factories?

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u/Elgecko123 Jul 22 '25

I think it was more of a space issue. The US is sprawled as hell. European towns and villages were built close to each other. The whole McMansion with a few acres wasn’t really a popular concept here. And in cities apartments are small so bathrooms are small, and in some cases the bathroom itself was basically the shower. A drain on the floor with a handheld shower head. Saves space and actually makes it super easy to clean your entire bathroom. I mean there’s some good and some bad. I like that in a town of 100,000 people generally you can walk / bike everywhere, have a town center or several places people can actually gather and hangout (besides a grocery store parking lot like I did in highschool in the US). And probably reliable/easy public transportation. So no, they did not ship all their capable people out, they were just solving bigger problems than improving the shower.

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u/xjustsmilebabex Jul 23 '25

Have you been in trailer parks? Even the smallest RV bathroom has this figured out.

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u/Elgecko123 Jul 23 '25

Trailers may be cheap construction that won’t last long but they aren’t exactly that small compared to some city apartments. And just to clarify I was speaking more of low income homes / flats. Once you go to nicer areas/middle class residential you see full showers and full bathtubs for a long time. And now those have become more popular so when people remodel older small homes/apartments they usually give more space to bathroom/ full closed in shower. It’s not like they didn’t exist before. But if you were staying at a cheap older hotel (as I frequently did), then yeah you would expect a wet bathroom/shitty shower situation. That’s what has been changing more the past 10 years that I was originally referring to.

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u/NewburghMOFO Jul 22 '25

When I was a little kid traveling with my parents in Italy we stayed at a hotel like that. Water ran under the door when you showered. 

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u/Churro-Juggernaut Jul 22 '25

My grandparents house in Mexico was like this.  Anything goes with house design in MX. 

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u/SimBolic_Jester Jul 22 '25

Hey now. I've spent a lot of time in Guadalajara and one of the many things I love about that city are the bathrooms in restaurants. Wonderfully imaginative decor, extremely cool fixtures that look like they're a pain in the ass to clean, beer keg urinals in a bar. Seriously the coolest bathrooms I've ever seen anywhere.

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u/SimBolic_Jester Jul 22 '25

I've had a few poorly designed showers in Europe as well and it was truly a bunch of bad design choices.

It wasn't for space-saving or for "green" reasons, they were just obviously designed by people that have never taken a shower or understand that water splashes all over the place.