"The other day," he says, "one of these politicians who likes to tell us how to live our lives was telling us we ought to save 10 gallons of water a day. That nite was at my daughter's and as we sat down to dinner she says to my grandson: `have you washed your hands?' Back he slides, and I figured if he has to wash his hands, maybe I'd better wash mine. So I went with him. Well, he swipes his hands through the water and starts wiping his hands off on the towel. But he leaves the water running. So I says to him: `why didn't you turn the water off?' and he replies: "cause Mom will hear it quit running and make me wash my hands again.' He turned it off as we walked out of the bathroom.
"Now," my friend went on, "if we would let little boys take baths less often, especially during football season, we'd have an abundance of water."
"What are you going to do about teenage boys?" I asked him. His answer was mmediate: "I'm going to put a 5-minute timer on the shower head. Either that or" .. he paused here and I thought he was going to say he might kill `em but what he said was "or add on another bathroom for their sister before somebody gets killed."
I'm not sure the politicians understand how complicated these water problems are, but I think the younger boys have a valid answer: Don't take so many baths.
This is Gordon Sawyer, and may the wind always be at your back.
http://accesswdun.com/article/2002/10/189082