showers

Life has hit routine. Sleep by 10 – 10.30. Wake up alarm at 5.55 am then snooze a bit, then shut the alarm and sleep a bit. Get out of bed by 6.10. Brush, and then get Jispa up. Wakey wakey wakey… Spend at least 5 -10 minuets coercing her to get up. Coerce her? Let’s look up the dictionary – coerce - to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means. Yup, coerce is perfect. I use all means mentioned above as well as some more. Then get her to the bathroom and give her a bath. Its good fun to give her a bath every day. When we recently did the plumbing in the bathrooms, we kept a rain shower (pretty cool thing that) in one bathroom and I got my self a good replacement on the hand shower in the other. There was no way I was going to get an overhead shower in both the bath rooms. When I am giving Jispa a bath, the hand shower is perfect for use as a hose. It’s easier and much more fun for me. She practically wakes up in the shower. Then drying her, a big hug and its time for mommy to take over. Breakfast and out to the bus stop. Thanks to this I reach office at 8 am. A full 90 minutes before official time. It’s a good thing I got my RSS feeds and two newspapers to read.

While on the showers… the builders had given us really silly hand showers that sprayed water all over the bathroom. We had to do something to it. The catalyst for change was a lovely bath I had at my friend’s house under the overhead shower. It was pretty cool thing. So we decided to get one at our house as well. The shop I went into was a fittings store at Matunga. He sold stuff from Jaguar bath fittings. Not to be confused with its automobile namesake but a brand on to itself. Do you have rain showers? Sure – here is one. How much? Eight thousand rupees. WHAT ON EARTH? EIGHT THOUSAND BUCKS. DO YOU HAVE GOLD FALLING FROM IT? Do you have a smaller one? yes sir. Here is one for four thousand. YA SURE – THIS ONE HAS SILVER FALLING FROM IT.
I lost all hope in getting a shower done in my bathroom. Jasmine suggested we go to Dadar and see others. Sure enough. At Dadar we got another one (unbranded) for guess what – five hundred bucks. Jaguar charges a premium of 16 times. Yes you heard me right 16 times. I am sure the quality must be better but 16 times? That’s an unheard of margin. Wow. What a cool brand. That too in something as mundane as bathroom fittings where the stuff is at the essence of it, the same thing. My friend had bought the Jaguar one. Sure enough, he insisted that the quality was much better. I am sure the water drops must have been… rounder; ‘more rounder’ I guess. BUT 16 TIMES. I am happy with my drops beings a bit, a bit…. They could be square for all I care. 16 times. BAH!