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January 11, 2006
Starfish Bathtub Water Level Alarm Thermometer
There'll be a lot going on in your bathtub space should you choose to add this device to your bathroom armamentarium.
From the website:
- Monitor Tub Level 'N Temp Starfish
Attach this colorful Starfish to the side of your bathtub and as soon as the water reaches his feet, he sets off a loud, clear chime.
Built–in thermometer displays water temperature.
Suction cup back.
5" diameter.
$19.99 here (batteries included).
I have no doubt that those with small children will soon tire of the incessant chiming and throw the thing against a wall to silence it forever.
Yeah, Shawn — I'm talking about you.
And one more thing — what's with the "he" when it comes to the gender of the Starfish?
As Dorothy Parker said when she was informed that Calvin Coolidge had died — "How could they tell?"
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Comments
Yeah, I definitely already have enough chiming in my house.
And I'm always in the bathtub when the water is running - that's part of the bathtime ritual, splashing the hot, hot, HOT water on my face with the washcloth. Then when it's full with hot water, I turn the cold completely off and put the steaming hot water on the towel. Afterwards, I lie in the tub with the towel over my eyes for exactly two songs. By then, the heat has left the towel anyways. (And this is the time, the only time in my day, that if anyone disturbs me during this six minutes, there will be hell to pay.)
My poor son gets the leftover water for his bath. I know. It's gross. Please don't report me to the child authorities. But there's no hot water left when I get through.
That's why I've always had to take baths at night - when I was younger and living at home with the parents, I always got in trouble for stealing all the hot water. It was the only way to shut them up. So I still take my bath at night and go to bed with my hair wet at 36 now.
There you have it...more than you ever wanted to know about me and my bathtub.
I suspect they are calling the starfish a "he" because it's blue. But this much I remember from my days of teaching freshman biology labs...you cannot tell whether a starfish is male or female from the outside of his or her body - unless you catch them spawning. They know, of course. But we humans only know after dissection.
Posted by: Shawn Lea | Jan 11, 2006 12:19:20 PM
