I've always had a problem with those two-knobbed showers: How do I decide whether I want the water to be more hot or less cold? That's a lot of thinking for 7 a.m. Once the hot-cold one-knob system was invented, it should have been the end of two knobs. Well, two-knobs lives on, and I just met its evil friend--the four-knob system. WHAT? Germany, your showers continue to baffle me. It gets worse:
• Hand-held shower head. So, of course it slowly moves away from you and towards the floor throughout the shower.
• Towel rack in the shower, and no nearby alternative.
• Soap ledge directly in the line of the water.
• Dangerous high-walled tub, with little truly flat surface inside.
• Random metal bits protruding from the wall. They seemed to have some kind of shower-related function that I could not identify. I tried hanging each of my shower-products on them and none fit. It remains a mystery.
• Not-so-great water pressure.
• And, those 4 knobs? Any sort of combination of hot and cold (knobs 1 and 2) meant alternating hot and cold water. No warm. Maybe next time I will try knobs 3 and 4.
• On the plus side, it had an excellent shower curtain.
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