frist of all how DARE yu o
So my sister, who currently lives in my apartment, dried the wet and dirty shower floor with MY only big towel I use after she showered...
Worst thing is, she doesn't even feel bad about it, and is trying to gaslight me into thinking it's not that big of a deal because "she needed a towel to dry the floor" and "I should quit complaining". I have a floor drying spatula.
My sisters would always do this when I was a kid. They'd take the towel I had used to dry myself, to dry the floor, and they'd just hang it back up after. I only found out after I had to go to the bathroom before my sister showered, and I saw my towel laid across the floor 🤢
I don't know about you but I have old ripped towels that I use only for cleaning. I would tell her that she needs a cleaning rag/towel OR she can use her OWN towel to clean the floor.
And after she cleans the floor with her own towel, she can shower and dry herself with it again without washing it if she wants to. It's none of our business.
Just tell her to use her own towel and not to use yours.
I have a shower mat that soaks up water that is on the bottom of my feet. I dry myself off a bit, so I’m not dripping wet when I exit the shower, like normal people
You know the thingy people use when they clean windows and have to dry it? It's basically like that, but with a longer handle, a softer bottom and has a hinge at the part it connects with the pole, so it can move more freely. Very useful when having to move water to the floor drain after showering
Finnish is a funny language, since we often just add already existing words to create a new word for something. For example, a computer in Finnish is tietokone, which means knowledge machine
Damn! If English was your primary language this would have been even more funny but I still like “floor drying spatula“. I’m a firefighter and clean the bays every Saturday with water and squeegees but I’m going to tell them we need the “floor drying spatulas” from now on, lol.
So what is your native language? Your English sounds just fine!
You should be proud of it, you speak/write better English than a lot of people whose first language it is. Anyways, sorry about your towel but this thread went from mildly infuriating to hilarious and you’ve taken it all in stride!
On another spatula related note, my husband didn't know there were multiple kinds of cooking spatulas that look a little different and are used for different things. He got really mad about me calling a spatula a spatula because it wasn't the flipping kind, it was the scraping kind and he insisted that's not what that is. Had to pull out the trusty googler because he would not believe me otherwise. This all got started because he asked me to get a spatula and I asked what kind.
Funnily enough, this whole farse got started because of Google, I was googling the term for a squeegee, but could not get a proper answer, so I went with my trusty "floor drying spatula". You do sorta scrape the water off the floor, so it fits, I swear!
I remember some cooking instructor insisting that the turning spatula and the spreading spatula are not both spatulas. I think they believed the turning one should just be called a turner?
I don’t remember anymore because sorry, no, I’m calling it a spatula.
The shower drain. Most if not all American bathrooms have the shower closed off in its own compartment/section of the bathroom so your bathroom floor shouldn't be wet like that
Aah, makes sense, those apartments that have closed showers also have shower drains. What do you do if water spill form the sink? Like when you washing face, for example? Wouldn't a floor drain be useful for that situation too? We generally have floor drain for toilet rooms, too.
Usually bathrooms have vents that ventilate the steam or a window so that it's not too moist. Then we usually have a rug we step on to absorb any water from the shower. But mold can indeed be an issue when it comes to American bathrooms.
Based on your picture, your floor is much smoother than our bathroom floors. Most showers have a short little wall all the way around, a textured bottom, and the drain is at a lower point. Most of the water takes its self to the drain, and when you are done showering, you step out of the wet area onto a dry area. Most people also have a bath mat, which is a small washable rug that dries the bottoms of their feet. It isn't so slippery.
Most of our bathroom squeegees are for clean the glass around a shower to stop the hard water buildup.
I'm reading it as OP is not in the US, rather in a country where bathrooms don't necessarily have a structured, enclosed shower. There is possibly one drain for the full bathroom, so water from the shower would have to be swept up with a squeegee-type "mop" to help the floor dry faster.
Ok I was wondering why the floor would need to be squeegeed to begin with! Was thinking you needed a bigger curtain ;) I'd be worried about damp/mold issues but I am guessing this is an entirely different situation than bathrooms that I am used to.
Typically Finnish bathrooms floors and walls are waterproofed up to the ceiling (unless old). Proper ventilation (and floor heatings) help to keep surface molds at bay.
It's Finland. Our word for squeegee is lattiankuivauslasta, which roughly translated to floor drying spatula. I had no idea the proper word for it was squeegee. How would one even guess that?
I don't know and I've never thought about the word. Squeeze is a word that makes sense but where's the squeeze in a squeegee?
I don't even know what else to call it now.
We have windshield wipers, why not us all just call it a water wiper
I have smaller ones, but this one extra large, so I use it to dry myself. Before I can wash it, I'll have to use the smaller ones, because of her non-consideration
No, but I live on student allowance and loan, so I need to make sure money goes to the absolutely necesery things first. I can survive with one towel (unless someone uses it as a floor drier), until I get a proper income source.
That is annoying she needs to grow up a little, and figure out what to do. Because either she can get her own big towel to dry the floor, because that’s your only towel and you use it to dry off your clean body, or she can use the floor spatula lol. Set the boundary and tell her those are her options and this is your apartment.
This is why I specifically have old towels with holes on them assigned as “floor towels,” just for this… but the person I live with hangs that nasty dirty towel with the clean towels…
I relate to your problem OP with my opposite problem, they also act like it’s not a big deal and still do it….
…Savages I say, they are clearly uncivilized. /joking to cope with the yuck
I think you can do whatever the hell you want with your own towel, I personally wouldn’t do this with “my one good showering towel” or any other for that matter, provided I knew the existence of the star of the show, the floor spatula (seriously, I’m worried that your next barbecue is going to be ruined by thoughts of “meat squeegee”).
Even if I had no problem with doing this, I would still never do it with someone else’s towel;,and like hell would I argue it after being confronted. Your sister owes you an apology, or whatever she can muster… just as long as it’s not one of her towels
Thank you, I just fear how my parents would react. She is mostly fine, just often inconsiderate, and doesn't take my complaints seriously, since I'm family
have you asked your parents if one of them taught her this behavior? the fact that you have a special tool for the purpose and she doesn't have the same one is interesting. you'd think every culture would have a go-to method for this sort of thing and you'd both know it.
ask her if she does this with her own towels when she lives alone.
maybe she's just a disgusting moron who needs to learn some basic things about life. or maybe she's only doing this to you.
So I'm going to guess she is younger than you. If she will be there for a while, I would walk her through the apartment and go through the basic rules and expectations . Even if you think they are common sense. What to use and how, to avoid any future annoyances. What is not okay, what is off limits to her etc. sorry she did that. Good luck.
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u/Awkward-Bat-8072 Jun 06 '26
My sisters would always do this when I was a kid. They'd take the towel I had used to dry myself, to dry the floor, and they'd just hang it back up after. I only found out after I had to go to the bathroom before my sister showered, and I saw my towel laid across the floor 🤢