Don’t Be A Dirty Bird | Showering Enthusiast

Chicago Sun-Times:

Don’t know why Americans insist on saying ‘I’m going to the bathroom’ instead of ‘I’m going to the toilet,’” my adorable English friend Robin announced one evening. “Are you going to take a bath in there right now? I didn’t think so.”

In the United States, the bathroom is not regarded as anything remotely sexy. It most certainly is not a style center — most of the time people will throw up some $5 shower curtain with pictures of birds on it and call it a day. I always regarded bubble baths paired with wine as a blase, rich person thing to do — but these days it sounds like something an un-rich person would need even more…