How sad that a bathtime fail is even possible!! haha. So, I'm not normally much of a bath person anyway because I have pretty long legs and in a normal sized bathtub I can't actually relax comfortably. Also, I have not taken a bath in probably a year (at least!) and it was when I still lived at my parents house. Now, in the 7 1/2 months that my husband and I have lived in our apartment I have not once attempted to take a bath because it's the same sized tub as the one at my parents, and I could already see that I would not fit (comfortably). But tonight as I was relaxing after a long day at work I decided a bath sounded pretty nice.
A month or so ago I purchased some really cheap bubble bath from Big Lots. It was $3 for this huge pump bottle of Warm Vanilla Sugar scented bubble bath. So I decided to finally try it out!
Well, my husband had taken the drain-stopper (I think thats what you call it! lol) out of the drain. Like it's one of those ones you press down or twist up to open and close. And I guess a while ago he took it out because it wasn't letting the tub drain properly for normal showers. Well I tried to put it back in so I could take my bath. Long story short, I fought with it for about 5 minutes and couldn't get it to work! Ugh! So at this point I'm pretty frustrated and all I want to be able to do is relax in my bath! But I can't even get the stupid plug to work, so how am I going to be able to take a bath?!
So, I get the bright idea to try and use the drain-stopper that I use in the kitchen sink. I figured I'd just try it and if it wasn't going to work then forget it! no bath for me! So I put it over the drain (it didn't fit the way it does in the kitchen sink) and started the water, pumped in some bubble bath and let the tub start to fill up. It looked like it was working out pretty well.
Finally, I got in the tub and tried to figure out how to sit/lay somewhat comfortably... and it was not working at all. I really should get a bath pillow! I used to have one at my parents house, but I think I threw it away when I was moving. Not only that, I realized the water was getting cold pretty quick. Mind you, I was sitting in the water while I still had the water running to finish filling up, so it should not have started to cool off yet at all. So then I touched the water coming out of the faucet and turned the knob to make it hotter, and what the heck! The water kept getting COLDER! It was like I had run out of hot water or something! (no, I was not turning the knob the wrong way) And that doesn't happen with normal showers, so I really dont understand why that happened.
So I turned off the water and tried to relax a bit. Ugh, this wasn't working at all! Temperature was not right at all, I couldn't lay comfortably, my bubbles were dissapearing fast, and it didn't even smell that great. That's what I get for $3 bubble bath, huh! haha. I was like, ok forget it and I pulled the plug. I turned on the water again because I wanted to rinse off the bubbles, and what do you know, it starts coming out hot! So, I plugged the drain one last time and tried to let it fill up since the water was finally coming out hot. Well, I dont know what happened. I let it keep running, but it was like the tub was not filling up enough, probably because the drain-stopper did not fit the drain properly and water was probably draining a little bit at a time!
So much for that! Definate bathtime FAIL.
Shopping List: Bath pillow, Bubble Bath (a nice one!!), plug for tub!
Hopefully next time I can have a better bath.
Comment and tell me what your favorite bubble bath is, or tell me if you have any bathtime fail stories. haha.
peace!
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