Towels

... I can't remember the last time I washed my towel. I should probably go do that.

Damn you Eyes On. Making me productive!

Maybe 2-3 times.

Those of you who use your towel less than 3 times are just killing everything for no good reason.

:hippie:

When it begins to have the consistency of cardboard.

Yeah, three times is about right. Just using one once when essentially all your doing is drying your freshly clean self makes no sense. I don't have time to be washing seven smurfing towels a week. My weekly wash is big enough already as it is. At least my thongs don't take up much room.

I do more than just reuse my towel. I keep it with me at all times, especially when traveling.

You see, a towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value — you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble‐sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand‐to‐hand‐combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindbogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might have accidentally "lost.". What the strag will think is that any man that can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

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Originally Posted by Pike

I do more than just reuse my towel. I keep it with me at all times, especially when traveling.

You see, a towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value — you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble‐sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand‐to‐hand‐combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindbogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might have accidentally "lost.". What the strag will think is that any man that can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

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It can also be used as a make-shift cape.

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Originally Posted by Bubba

It can also be used as a make-shift cape.

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You sound like a real hoopy of a frood!

I might go 4 days, but once it starts to smell, it goes in the wash. But if it ever touches the floor wet, that's a trip to wash too.

I would like to live with Shiny, because she would make me take better care of myself.

For about three weeks, after which she will most certainly execute me.

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Originally Posted by Quin

I would like to live with Shiny, because she would make me take better care of myself.

For about three weeks, after which she will most certainly execute me.

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That's very optimistic of you, to think you'd last three weeks.

Well, I'd have locked myself in a cupboard for the first two, obviously.

I can't really dry myself with just one towel. The three feet of hair soaks up water like a sponge. :eep:

So instead I use three towels. One to dry myself in the shower, one to finish drying my body off, and a third one for the hair.

I changed my towel today because of this god damn thread I hope you're all happy.

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Originally Posted by Dat Matt

I changed my towel today because of this god damn thread I hope you're all happy.

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As a general rule, if the towel is soiled to the point of blackness, completely stiff, or covered in fungus, you should probably wash thoroughly with detergent, a cup of disenfectant and a prayer.

If the towel lets off an odor between the range of the rotting corpse of a decaying skunk and a landfill, call a hazmat team and prepare an incendiary device and a wooden stake.