Rub-a-Dub-Dub . . .

. . . FOUR girls in a tub!

Uh-oh! Sounds potentially bad, but this isn't that kind of website!

When I went to school at Utah State University I shared a dorm room with four other girls. We got along pretty well, on the whole.

One evening, when I was tired but not ready for bed, I announced that I would be taking a bath before bedtime (since the five of us shared the bathroom, the announcement really was necessary). Stacey said that she wanted a bath before she went to bed, and since she had an earlier class than I did the next morning, she should go first. We bantered back and forth a little, and somehow it evolved into: "Wouldn't it be funny if we all got in the bathtub together?" So Stacey, Jessi, Regina and I put on our swimsuits, put our hair up, grabbed some bubble-bath and hopped in; Lisa said she'd forego the bath and take our pictures.

Stacey, Me, Regina and Jessi

Well we didn't have enough bubble bath to make a good, foamy tub full of bubbles, so we started pouring in our shampoo. Then the dish-soap. Finally I remembered a big, family-size box of generic-brand laundry detergent that I'd just gotten. So we poured some in and it foamed up very nicely. During the next two hours we used up all of the detergent, except for maybe about four to five cups.

After our goofy photo session was done we drained the tub and then all took turns showering off. Ironically Stacey and I, who wanted the baths in the first place, ended up being the last to shower--first Stacey and then me. (I ended up going to bed past midnight.)

Oh dear! We both got a rash, and then had dry, itchy skin for weeks!

Moral of the story: Never take a bath in laundry detergent.