'Do you really want your wet towel touching your wet shower curtain?'

You know, I'd never really given it any thought until I came across this mutant shower curtain rod (above) this morning.

From the website:

Hang your wet bath towel over a rod that's not also hanging a mildewed shower curtain.

Do you really want your wet towel touching your wet shower curtain?

Thought not.

That's why this duo shower-curtain rod is made of two rods: one for your shower curtain, the other for hanging wet towels!

Mounts with tension over a standard 5' bathtub or use the screws included for a more permanent wall mounting.

I find it disturbing and frankly a bit insulting that the copywriter assumes that my shower curtain is mildewed.

As if.

Here is a good idea which died half–way to completion yet somehow made it to market in its current, half–baked incarnation.

Want to make some money?

So obvious once you think about it, really: use two bars but have the outer one connect to the first before it hits the wall.

That way it goes up the way regular shower rods do.

Want to make even more money?

Devise a clamp–on towel holder that fits any shower rod and installs without tools.

"We're in the money...."

The first pass version shown above is $49.99 here.