do you put up bathroom towels no one is supposed to touch?

[yurbud]

A lot of people have towels in their bathroom neatly hung, color coordinated, and clealy never touched.

Do you do that?

Does anyone know how this tradition started?

Was their once a severe towel shortage that led people to create little shrines to towels?

Is their some bathroom cleanser that causes obsessive compulsive behavior?

[Quantess]

1. I appreciate your span of answers.

I'd like to add this tidbit:

Some towels are to be trusted, and other times you flick your washed, wet fingers in the sink and walk back to the party. :rofl:

[Indi Guy]

2. I put up towels with Cheney's face stenciled on them...

This insures the all my guests will wipe their butts when they're done.

[Quantess]

3. Seriously, that would be a great gag gift!

A bath towel with a stencil of Dick Cheney on it.

It would need to be a big enough towel to fit the giant stencil of his face.

Then call it the "ass towel"

:rofl:

[yurbud]

12. like the towels in rest room on continous loop

About as safe as the person of easy virtue at the party you're returning to

[krispos42]

16. we have that at work, but they are not continuous

you pull on the fabric towel to get a clean spot, then wipe your hands off, but the used towel goes back onto a take-up roll. So eventually you're done with the roll without ever having to re-use any of the towel.

Much cleaner than paper, and just as sanitary.

[yurbud]

35. most places, that looks like it's about a two foot long loop that just goes around and around

[krispos42]

37. Oh, I've seen those, too

In fact, I refused to use those at work until one day I realized they weren't reused! :-)

These go into a take-up spool, though. Always fresh. Works a lot better than paper towels, too.

[Breeze54]

4. I have both... one is decorative display and the rest are for human use!

;)

I don't put out my 'fancy' decorative towels unless it's a holiday or we're having guests.

They're embroidered hand towels to make the bathroom look nice

but there's always other regular towels available for general use.

I have decorative oven mitts too! :rofl: But I use the regular one's instead.

The others are just to make things look nice. ;)

[Giant Robot]

5. The Ex-Mrs Giant Robot had them

And I obviously have to point out she is the Ex-Mrs Giant Robot.

[harmonicon]

19. I have friends who broke up over bathroom towels

well, that was really just the last straw, but it was a massive on-going fight. He wouldn't hang up the towels neatly, because they were just for using for drying, and she had a very particular way she wanted them. She also had some incredibly strange bath-mat protocols.

[yurbud]

27. your friend should have wiped his ass with non-showing side of a towel, then neatly re-hung it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Of course not - doing so is rude to guests, and fills with the space with clutter.

I will never understand why people do such things.

[catmandu57]

7. I don't

but my wife does.

[stuntcat]

8. LOLOLOL

I vote 'wipe?' :rofl: :rofl:

We have white hand towels hung by the sink just for drying hands. They aren't special though, they're just white.

[yurbud]

13. reminds me of redneck palm pilot and toilet paper

A redneck palm pilot is the palm of his hand and a pencil tied to a string around his wrist.

The other hand is the TP.

[madinmaryland]

9. ZOMG!!1!! Bush has been here!

:scared:

[Left Is Write]

10. No.

[billyskank]

15. You are the Master of the terse reply.

:hi:

[Left Is Write]

22. I prefer the word concise.

:)

[DarkTirade]

29. I'd go with laconic.

Sounds fancier. But it's still a one-word description. :)

[Left Is Write]

30. Excellent.

[AlCzervik]

11. i do, "They're just for show!" but guests can use them. I also have a basket

of small towels on the vanity for drying your hands, those are for everybody but the towels on the towel bar--no touch unless you're a guest. Why? I have no idea, it's always been that way and it always will.

[amitten]

40. Well, no offense to you and your Show Toweler friends, but that

needs to change.

Towels is towels. They are there for me to wipe my wet fingers on. If you don't want 'em used, don't put 'em out!

[Solon]

14. What's a Bathroom? All I got is a slit trench and some leaves...

This time of year, it sucks, so cold. :scared:

[UncleSepp]

17. I have color coordinated, but no two the same, towels

They look nice enough, but the mismatched colors ensure you always know which towel is yours and somehow send the message "yes, it's OK to use these towels". I hate having anything sitting around not to be used.

[tigereye]

18. I always assumed they were to be used, and not for show

what's the point, otherwise?

Mine aren't fancy, and rarely color coordinated...

[CTyankee]

20. Ihave to admit I color coordinated them but they are there to be used and I launder them regularly.

Mostly, people will use the white one in the middle, not the two matching pale moss green ones on the sides (match the walls). Extra white ones are rolled and in a wire basket and I nestle in little guest soaps there for use at the sink when I use up one.

[bigwillq]

21. My mom does

She says they're "just for show"

I can't stand that. :mad:

[reyd reid reed]

23. I admit it...

I do. In two of the three bathrooms (the third bathroom is in the basement and that's the one that Bonehead, Buzzard-butt and Darrel and Alex use -- I'm afraid of that bathroom). I also have towels that can be used in both of those bathrooms.

They still use the 'for show' towels, though.

[NMDemDist2]

24. my stepmother has those fancy towels, even bath towels. When we went to visit the first time

she has these beautiful fancy embroidered towels in our bathroom.

I complimented them, then asked for 'real towels' for my husband.

We all laughed our asses off as she tried to defend using scratchy appliquéd towels on your butt

:rofl:

[Catbird]

25. Best of both worlds -- pretty and plain

I have a couple of pretty color-coordinated towels.

I also have a roll of plain paper towels. Everyone uses these.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

26. We don't have things in this house that you can't use.

Our mothers both pulled that shit, and I got beat more times than I can count for touching the pretty towels. Fuck that. We only put those out when my mom comes so I can yell at her.

[madrchsod]

28. only when company is coming over

[TrogL]

31. My mother did that - drove me batshit

Somehow you were supposed to know which of the four identical towels was the "for use" towel.

Most of them were hung in the shower so you had to take them out and put them somewhere where they wouldn't get damp or even moist from mist from the shower. You also had to find someplace to hang the "for use" towel while it was wet so it wouldn't contaminate the identical "good" towels.

[GalleryGod]

32. Ever hear D.L. Hughley's riff on this topic ?

[yurbud]

36. no, but if a guy has more hair than me, he should have the decency to comb it

or donate a patch of scalp to my head and I'll comb it.

[Scooter24]

33. Yes...

The towels hanging in all my bathrooms are decorative only except for a hand towel which hangs on an O-ring next to the sinks.

I keep my "for-use" towels in the bathroom closets.

[GirlinContempt]

34. We use decorative towels in the half bathroom on the main floor

and anyone can use them any time. They're washable.

[Nye Bevan]

38. "Show Towels" = STUPIDEST CONCEPT EVER!

A TOWEL that is HANGING IN THE BATHROOM *cannot* be used to DRY YOUR HANDS?

When my wife first explained this concept to me I was completely baffled... and still am.

I am no sexist but are there any single guys out there with "show towels"?

[amitten]

39. Yes...Show Towels boggle the mind and distort reality.

I was once scolded at a friends house for using her mother's "show towels".

Makes me want to invite a Show-Toweler to my house for dinner. Just as they reach for food, I'll cry out, "No, no! Don't touch the Show Salad! I'll get you some real salad out of the fridge!"

:wtf:

[DBoon]

41. We did in college

the towels we stuffed under our dorm room doors when we were smoking weed.

Noboady was supposed to touch those. ever.