Tall Tales and Western Cowboy Stories
written by...... R. V. Jahns
"The Hot Tub" Just the other day I got another invitation from some friends to come over
and enjoy their new hot tub with them. I understand this means to sit in
hot water with them and enjoy a drink or beer or two and visit. Well, I turned them down just as I have all the millions of other people who have invited me to do the same. Millions of invitations might be a small exaggeration but I got the same look from them as I have all the others when I declined their invite. It seems people just can't understand why a man like me would ever turn down as invitation to sit in a hot tub. I will explain. I have been accused of being old fashion, and maybe in some things I might be just a little but when it comes to hot tubs, I am way ahead of my time .... or theirs' actually. I was using a hot tub many decades ago....................................................................................................................................................... The house I grew up in had no running water. Oh:, we had a pitcher pump at the kitchen sink, which was real nice so we weren't deprived of the modern conveniences of our time. The house I grew up in also had four kids, the oldest being me followed by three sisters. Come Saturday night was time for baths. Out came the Number 3 galvanized washtub to be set in front of the Home Comfort wood stove, which was fired up. A number of tea kettles and other assorted pots and pans all filled with water were set on top to heat. As soon as the water was hot the baths began. Now, I don't know if you've ever had the pleasure of one of these baths or not, but they were an experience, especially in the wintertime. As you are sitting there in the tub, the side of you closest to the stove is literally being roasted while the side away from the stove is freezing. So while one side of you is turning red the opposite side is growing goose bumps the size of marbles. You're shaking and baking at the same time. Can you imagine what this must do for you nervous system? You'd think that if one side of you was 110 degrees and the other side was 10 degrees below zero that on the average you'd be doing okay but it just isn't so .. One hard fast unchangeable rule was that the girls bathed first. During all the years of my complaining, not once would my mother allow me to bathe first. It wasn't just the idea of my sisters bathing first; it was the fact that I had to bathe in their dirty bath water. All during my tender formative years I was dehumanized every Saturday night by having to take my Saturday night bath in their dirty bath water. I swore to myself that if I ever got out of that situation I'd never again bathe in someone else's dirty water and I'm sticking to it. Now I realize that in some places and with some people you take a bath or shower before you get in the hot tub. Well, that's just fine except bath water is bath water whether it's the first go around or second...............................the end. ....written by R.V. Jahns.....
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