mem (12/20/82)
c In the shower, this morning, I was struck by a particularly heavy question (which is to say, the soap landed on my foot); and that led me to thinking about various other questions that occur to people daily but which seem too trivial to bother with. Anyway, I thought I might as well ask... Why is it that soap holders (in the bathtub, and those indentations around the edge of the sink) are made so that they don't actually hold soap but let it slide away (causing a lot of slamming of soap in an effort to make it stick) ? How do I keep the neighbors cats from leaving footprints all over my car at night? How can I send mail through harpo so that people won't think I'm a big *bleep* for not replying? Finally... why is it when I get a wrong number, the person who answers always sounds more interesting than the person I was trying to call... Mark Mallett
mark (12/22/82)
i can provide one answer (of a sort): i have a soap holder which does not throw the soap at my feet, does not hold a sticky mess of wet soap and does not dissolve the bar overnight. it consists of a magnet on a wall braket, and a matching metal disk, shaped like a bottle cap, which is pressed into the soap. the soap hangs from the magnet rather than sitting in a pool of water. i really hate soap dishes, and like this method a lot. (i have also tried a liquid soap dispenser, which has all the same advantages, but i somewhat prefer bar soap). these things are not easy to find (at least in toronto). i first saw one when a friend of my mother's brought her one from germany. some years later i heard that a store here was selling them. when i got there a salesperson dug some out of a basket full of facecloths! not a big item, i guess. mARK (no relation) bLOORE univ of toronto