004 With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

[speterman]

[Everyone, it is that time of night.]

Because I'm utter rubbish at actually following along with drama... So instead of doing.



Why do we wash towels when we dry off with them after getting clean?


..Seems a little redundant to me.

Comments

[seeringlight]

The same reason we clean clothes I suppose. While we use towels to dry ourselves, it is possible for them to get dirty.
It would also be counter intuitive to use a towel that is dirty.
So it would either mean waiting for our bodies to dry naturally or to dirty ourselves again right after cleaning oneself.

Have you taken to considering the meaning of life at odd hours?

[speterman]

If we're clean though theoretically they shouldn't get dirty.

Yeah, it's a good hobby of mine.

[seeringlight]

Theoretically. I don't think it is possible for us to ever be completely clean. It's also highly likely that the water itself is dirtier than us.
It could be that the towel itself is used to remove any remaining dead skin from our bodies. While, not inherently dirty to us, it still is undesirable to dry oneself with a towel that already has your dead skin on it.

Wouldn't sleeping be a wiser choice?

[speterman]

Probably. But I'm working on something, and if I sleep then I won't have time to work on it.

[seeringlight]

You can't just sleep and wake up early to finish it?
I hope you aren't insinuating that you haven't done any of your homework yet.

[speterman]

Most of it's done, but that's not what I'm working on, everything due is done.

How can you just go to sleep in the middle of working on something?

[seeringlight]

It depends on what I'm doing.
Usually I start early so this doesn't end up being a problem or I find a good time to stop working so it'll be easier to pick it back up in the morning.