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Desert Showers

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I was in Las Vegas last week for a Web-related conference. I stayed at Caesar’s Palace in a rather modest hotel room whose only frill was a small television above the bathroom sink. The room had a pleasant view of the highway and the mountains. It was nice.

I had only two complaints.

The regular TV showed an annoying Windows task bar on my first day until I called down to the front desk to let them know. They must have called their I.T. staff quickly because it disappeared minutes later.

My other complaint was about the shower. I stepped in on my first morning there and turned the handle. Nothing. This was frustrating, I thought. I was late to the conference networking breakfast and didn’t have time to monkey with this. I turned it some more and managed to get a trickle. A ha! I kept turning it around three and then four times until enough of a stream of water appeared that I could at least wet down my hair.

“It’s the desert,” I thought. “They must have a Low Flow shower head installed to help conserve water.” I respected Caesar’s water conservation efforts, but I felt they had taken it a bit too far, in my humble opinion. I thought about calling the front desk again, but I didn’t want to be that hotel guest who is always calling and complaining. I decided to suck it up. I quickly dressed and went off to my conference.

That evening I was at a cocktail reception chatting up a group of Web people from a company called Klipsch.  They were discussing technical things that I knew little about. I didn’t want to give myself away as a non-hardcore-techie, so I turned it to a direction where I could participate more. I asked them what they thought of the Low Flow shower heads in the hotel.

“What are you talking about?” they asked. I explained my experience that morning with the shower. They looked puzzled for a moment and then said, “you do know that you have to pull the shower handle, right?”

For the rest of the conference they called me “shower guy”. 

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