Hellobee Boards

Login/Register

Help settle an argument between me and DH!

  • poll: What end do you enter/exit the shower?
    Front (closest to the shower head) : (52 votes)
    24 %
    Back (farthest from the shower head) : (158 votes)
    73 %
    Who has time to shower?! : (6 votes)
    3 %
  1. Ash

    honeydew / 7909 posts

    Back!

  2. Mrs. Lemon-Lime

    wonderful pea / 17279 posts

    Back, even though I wear a shower cap.

  3. Greentea

    pomelo / 5678 posts

    Mind blown!!! I have never considered not entering and exiting next to the shower head where all the action is.

  4. Mrs. Toad

    persimmon / 1095 posts

    Depends on what is next to the tub. At home, the back. At my parents, the front. Toilet is next to the tub in both bathrooms. I always turn on the water and get it comfortable prior to getting in. I also always wash my hair.

  5. erinpye

    pomegranate / 3706 posts

    Our shower has a door, but for showers in a tub, with a curtain, I've always gotten in from the back/ farthest away from the shower head, but gotten out from the reverse side/ closest to the shower head!

  6. IRunForFun

    pomelo / 5509 posts

    Back! For several reasons. Technically that's the only real option in the apartment we're in now because the toilet is next to the tub at the front where the shower head is, so to get in that way I'd have to go around the toilet. But even when I'm in bathrooms that aren't set up that way, I go in the back in case the water temperature isn't quite right - I don't want to get hit with the stream right away!

    ETA: Also our towel rack is on the wall that the back of the tub hits, so I need to be there anyway, otherwise I'd drip a few steps on the floor to reach my towel.

  7. 2PeasinaPod

    pomelo / 5524 posts

    We have a stand up shower, but we both enter/exit from the front. It's closest to where our towels are.

    I don't wash my hair every day...I have a little old lady shower cap!

    ETA: It's the way our shower door swings open, so we also don't have much of a choice!

  8. BadgerMom

    persimmon / 1385 posts

    I enter from the front. And now that I'm thinking about it, because I enter by the shower head, I always point the shower head towards the wall until I get in and know the water temp is good. This makes no sense!!! Why don't I just get in from the back?!?! Mind blown

    I think it stems from the fact that the bathroom I used growing up had a sliding door and the toilet sat right next to the tub, so it would have been really hard to get in any other way but by the shower head. Wow. I'm apparently a creature of habit...

  9. spaniellove

    honeydew / 7916 posts

    The front! Our shower is large enough that no matter which side I step in from I have to really reach in my arm to feel the water, so I like to leave the shower head side door open to adjust the temperature. When I step out, my towel is against that wall.

  10. Cherrybee

    papaya / 10570 posts

    I'm confused. I climb in at the mid point of the bath.....?

  11. mrsrain

    nectarine / 2115 posts

    Depends on the shower! In our master bath I exit at the back, but in our other bathroom I exit towards the front. I think it has more to do with where the toilet is... I exit on whichever is further from the toilet!

    ETA: When I get it, I always do so at the end furthest from the shower head.

  12. yoursilverlining

    eggplant / 11824 posts

    I'm equal opportunity - I get into the shower in the back, but get out up by the shower head.

  13. mrsjyw

    GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts

    We're in a shower stall so N/A, but typically I get in the back side away from the shower head!

  14. mediagirl

    hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts

    @Ra: so, who's right??

  15. lemondrop

    bananas / 9118 posts

    Back because 1) toilet is in the way at the front 2) I need to wade in to make sure the water temp is ok

  16. Ra

    honeydew / 7586 posts

    @mediagirl: Now we are disagreeing over the poll results! Haha. If you go by the poll, I'm right. However, he argues that if you go by the comments he is right because I have to squeeze by the toilet to get in through the back.

  17. Kimberlybee

    grapefruit / 4997 posts

    From the back...our towel holder is located at the back so that's where I always enter and exit.

  18. loveisstrange

    pineapple / 12526 posts

    Depends on the layout of the bathroom? At my parents when I was growing up, it was the back. At our house now, it's the front near the showerhead.

  19. stiletto_mom

    persimmon / 1183 posts

    Back because the toilet is by the head.

    BUT if I had an option? I'd probably take the middle. I'm the kind of gal that throws open the curtains like I'm a hot-shot prosecutor walking into a courtroom.

    The only incentive that would get me to exit/enter "head first" is if the towel rack was on that side.

  20. littleblessings

    pear / 1739 posts

    Our toilet is on the opposite side of the shower head so we have to get out by the shower head. At my old place it was the opposite. Now I barely get to shower with to full mobile toddlers

  21. StrawberryBee

    nectarine / 2530 posts

    Both! I enter at the back (to check temp first and keep my hair from getting wet if it's my 'other' day) and exit at the front (after I've turned of off the water). My towel is at the front.

  22. PinkElephant

    grapefruit / 4584 posts

    @ mrsbrewer: right?! I turn on the water once I'm in! It never occurred to me that this might be abnormal!

    I get in/out at the back - the head is right by the bathroom door so to enter/exit there would feel like leaving the bathroom itself. But this conversation just reminds me how much I loathe showers in tubs. I miss our old bathroms with separate showers!

  23. Anagram

    eggplant / 11716 posts

    I get in and out right in the middle, always.

  24. snowjewelz

    wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts

    I go out the back bc that's where the door is

    Otherwise I think it depends where the towel is!

  25. Mrs. Pen

    blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts

    Front!

    The back butts up to the toilet (no pun intended). And I don't turn the water on until I'm in the shower. In response to your other question - I don't actually shower everyday (usually every other), but I wash my hair every time I shower.

  26. irene

    nectarine / 2964 posts

    I think it depends on how your bathroom is laid out but if I had a choice I think I will get out in the front. I no longer have that problem because we remodeled our master bath and we now have the fanciest shower ever lol

  27. photojane

    cantaloupe / 6164 posts

    By the shower head. The toilet is on the opposite side, so it's not possible to get in on that side. I've always gotten in and out by the shower head though! I never really go on the other side of the shower. The shower head is where the action happens.

  28. Crystal

    grapefruit / 4028 posts

    Enter towards the back!

    It's easy in my current home because that's where the "open" space is (the head of the shower entrance is blocked by the toilet). But even growing up in my parents home, I would get in towards the back and have to climb in around the toilet to do so.

  29. ALV91711

    pomelo / 5621 posts

    The front. First I check the temperature and make any adjustments and get in. That is the only way I've ever done it.

  30. Mrs. High Heels

    blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts

    Front!

    But now that you mention it, at hotels I always enter through the back (I guess cuz the toilet is right by the front).

    I never turn on the shower until I actually enter the shower. I usually leave it running, then I pull that lever thingy to initiate the shower once I'm in, so the water splashing me has never been an issue.

Reply

You must login / Register to post

© copyright 2011-2014 Hellobee