Seems like you take the problem with you but also the solution.

Last winter we did not have warm water for almost a week in my place. I never thought of asking for a discount on the rent. Taking a cold shower is supposedly good for your skin, maybe sitting in a cold appartment is too?

Thank goodness, I live in Germany.

Juliane

You live in a dorm for catholic girls don't you?

During the week, yes. I travel to Frankfurt/Main for the weekend, though, were I live together with my boyfriend in a small flat near the station.
Nevertheless, there haven't been any problems with the heating in the dorm yet.

Déjà vu?

Somehow I got the feeling I already read this before. Maybe that's because I'm getting older (a year this very day). Been there, done that, read it, seen it... sigh...

anojo

somehow I also remember the "taking a bath instead of something else" part.

Coen

I suggest you use the search function.

Hitler supposedly liked his workplaces to be cold (12-13°C), I myself spent most of my hours in a non-heated room.. I find it difficult to find the right temperature. It gets too hot too easily. I'd rather have it too cold than too hot.

I do take a bath very often. The water, the warmth, the peacefullness. Sometimes I think I could live in a bath, but then again, I don't like fish-skin, so that's no deal. Oh, and I do like the stove very much. The fire, the smell, lovely. Wind and Earth don't do it for me. Water and Fire I crave.

Mr. Arnon, do you do research people's backgrounds?

Dens

Do you use foam bath? I only take a bath when the day's already weird and I want to make it worse. There's something quite dismal about naked bodies in bathtubs. But only if there's no foam.

Juliane

It depends. Sometimes I like foam, sometimes I don't. No matter what, I always put some "douchegel" in the bathtub. I don't wash myself in a bath (it doesn't work well I think and I use it mainly to relax) so the least I can do is make the water a bit detergent.

As a kid I used loads and loads of bathfoam. I made beards and shapes and vulcano's. Oh, the glory days, nowadays I just read a book or watch a movie.

I'm too neurotic to stay in a bathtub for a long time so reading a book in it is out of the question. Ans I think that a bath is quite useless when you only stay in it for a couple of minutes so I prefer to take a shower. Very hot and then, if I feel like it I turn the warm water off and shower for a minute or so under cold water. best way to get warm in a chilly environment. Baths I only take in hotelrooms with nice company and a glass of champagne.

Epidemy

I do share your pain, my building boiler died yesterday, my windows are paper thin, we try to live with our coats on and the kids are sick...

Arnon

Return to your attitude of decadence in the older days : go to a hotel.

Dens

Should I consider a background check for your sister?

I have swimming membranes between my fingers.

mieke

I'll stay and fight the cold. (Actually the heating got repaired.)

I think that holding back a proper expression of feelings in time results in their disproportionate release in a wrong moment. It is not different from compulssive dieting: if one deprives oneself of food for a long time the chance is that (in 95% of the caseses) at a certain moment one will eat far more than one's real hunger is. It always amounts to violence in both cases, and the violence already begin from the moment of holding back the proper expression of feelings (or the deprivation of whatever).

Dens

Perhaps the cold reminded Adolf of the trenches and his lost testicle.

Nicolas

Are you still in the cold?