Find someone who will install a Japanese bath in your house.
This turns the whole room into a waterproof shower stall in which a tub is optionally placed. So you can just walk into that room and stand wherever you please.
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2025
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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just stand wherever you please
stands on the wall
I don’t believe in gravity
Screw gravity!
*floats away\*
“Gravity is a law. And I obey the law.” - John Pinette
“I know this defies the law of gravity but see, I never studied law” -Bugs Bunny
I have one of those. Having water everywhere, especially when it's hard water, isn't as much fun as it sounds.
I feel like I'd be cold all the time. My shower is tiny but it gets nice and steamy-warm
These suck in winter. Drafty.
Put the exhaust fan on separate switch and don’t use it while you’re in there. That’s what I’ve been doing, most Japanese baths are wired that way.
Older Japanese construction can have a small window to the outside to help with ventilation. The only reason it would be drafty is if that window is open/won't seal properly or if the fan is pulling the heat out too quickly.
I need to buy and install some of those no-slip rubber mat pieces in and around my tub. A couple years ago I slipped and cracked the back of my head, and was fortunately okay, but those events can be life-altering, or fatal.
Do people generally not walk into their showers? How else are you getting in them.
You should be dancing in as per standard protocol.
You've activated a memory of John Leguizamo dancing in the bathtub and I'm not sure I wanted to remember that.
The Pest was a strange movie
Many showers are also a bathtub. Step over to get in.
Wait... What kind of shower do you have now? 🤨
What kind of shower isn't walk-in? 🤔
I'm guessing a step in where they have to step over the side of the bath tub
Call me a grumpy stubborn old hacker if you want, but no thanks I prefer printf shower.
Nothing convinced me of this platform being a tech-centric space as much as this comment
I crawl into mine through a doggy door
Get one. I have one and it is so awesome.
Could build a wheelchair ramp on the side of the tub so you can just roll on in
We just turned a closet into a big shower- almot 5' x 5'. Now we walk around and have conversations in there in the morning. Also, I've had two knee surgeries this fall and it's awesome to have the extra space for a temporary bench and for my honey to step in and take my crutches.
Once you have a walk-in shower, you'll never want to go back. Huge improvement over tubs.
Aren't all showers "walk-in"?
I assume OP’s shower is built into a tub. Which means they have to step up and over to get in.
Shower stalls are just “walk-in”, yeah. But not everyone has those.
Or it's one of those trays with high-ish sides.
Don't most american homes not have a bathroom with shower on the wall and a drain in the floor? What's the point of having a shower stall or a tub?
Here's mine:
The most common is a tub with shower head
Most American bathrooms you have a combo tub/shower. So you get the shower on the wall and use the drain in the tub. Since you have to step over the side of the tub to take a shower that's not what many people consider a "walk-in" shower. In higher-end, generally newer construction sometimes they'll have a separate walk-in shower and tub. Bathrooms with just a shower are somewhat uncommon. If you see a 3/4 bath listed in a house that's a bathroom with just a shower and no tub.
I've considered getting rid of my tub and just having a shower as I never use the tub part, but as I only have one "full" bathroom supposedly having a house with no tub hurts the resale value. I might do it anyway, but also what I have is working fine and I'm lazy.
Do people actually use the tub? I've only seen and used ones in hotels for the novelty of it. I wouldn't have use for one in my own home especially since I need to pay for the water.
No
Baths with shower heads are not shower stalls.
No one said stalls. And any motion involving taking a step is walking.
This joke is getting away too much analysis.
Nope.
Yup
This is like the first thought that goes through my head when getting in a shower too!
Sometimes its just that I really want a bench.