Frenemies

The shower is a girl’s best friend.

Yeah, right. This thing didn't seem to want to cooperate. --> 

This is basically what turns the shower off and on. Now, at first glance, one might think the bottom turny-dial-button-thing controls the temperature and the one at the top regulates the force of the water. That’s what I thought too. But apparently, the shower didn’t agree:

Low and medium setting made no difference whatsoever. At least the bottom turny-button did change the water heat, but when the water had a comfortable temperature, the force would barely be enough to rinse soap off your hands – let alone shampoo out your hair. However, if I turned the heat down, the force increased. The only downside to this, was that when the water finally had an acceptable force, it was freezing cold.

But, alright, no need to panic just yet, right? Just turn the water back to where it was comfortably warm and turn the top turny-thing to high, no worries, don’t freak out.

Oh, if only it was that simple. Now the water was scalding hot. And it didn’t help no matter how much I turned the temperature-button. The water force did grow when turned back toward the blue area, but the temperature didn’t change one degree.

So to rinse out the shampoo from my hair, I was stuck with keeping the temperature-button on the edge of the blue dots, and switching the other turny-button from medium to high continuously.

Well, at the very least I did manage to clean up. Only time (and some more experimenting with the unstable shower) will show whether my annoyance is justified, or if this shower (like the food stores – which I found several of today) as some magical trick to it that only English people understand.