A Conversation for Towels

Towel psychology

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returningLisekit

It's absolutely true that knowledge of where your towel is is immensely comforting, and that the absence of knowledge of where your towel is is distressing and disorientating. I was 6,000 miles from home when I opened my luggaage and found that I had forgotten to pack a towel. This sucked in the immediate, pragmatic sense in that it made it hard for me to have a shower to get rid of the effects of 6,000 miles travel, but I was also really disconcerted until I could get to the shops the next day and buy myself a new one. The new one wasn't a very good one, and I didn't bother to bring it home with me. It served all the practical purposes of a towel, but it wasn't *my* towel, and I found that very troubling.

Never forget your towels, travellers.


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