My Favorite Innovation

My favorite innovation of the early 21st Century may come as something of a shock. It isn’t the iPad, and it doesn’t even have an electric chord attached. Certainly the high tech wonders all around us are amazing and have a great impact on our daily lives, but for me, the greatest innovation is curved shower curtain rods in hotels! How wonderful it is to be able to take a shower without touching the shower curtain, the curtain that countless other guest’s naked bodies have touched before, and that can’t be cleaned daily. Now, all of the hotels I have stayed at recently have a shower curtain rod that bows outward; the shower curtain is 6 inches further away than it used to be, and doesn’t touch the person in the shower. My guess is that the concept was invented by a woman, but I may be wrong, it just seems like the kind of idea that a woman would have come up with – if not the idea, the aversion to touching such a common surface. She should be nominated for a Nobel Prize.
April 7, 2010