Showers

In our dorms, there is a shower room on each floor with three showers in it. The shower rooms are not heated and it's minus temperatures outside. Also, each shower has a changing room area separated from the actual shower room by a curtain, but the changing room areas all have pools of water in them a centimetre deep.

If anyone has ever succeeded in taking their trousers off while standing in a pool of water without getting them wet, I commend you, Sir/Madam. It is an almost impossible task, hindered further by the freezing temperatures making you want to get them off as quickly as possible so you can turn the hot water on.

So, with the trousers hanging up on the door hook, sopping wet up to the knees, time to turn the water on. Except someone else is in the shower two cubicles down, and they keep turning their water off and on again, so the shower you just managed to get to a good temperature has a mini panic attack and decides it doesn't like working at full power or full temperature - for ten seconds, by which time you've turned the heat up and are now hit with a powerful spray of boiling hot water.

Okay, so you managed to shower. Back to the trousers dilemma. Do you risk trying to put them on while standing in the pool of water again (which, by the way, has become two centimetres deep)? Or do you run outside of the cubicle and pull them on as quickly as you can, hoping no-one comes in at the wrong moment?

Option two was a success. The shower has been successfully navigated. Tomorrow is another story...