Showers

Every morning and afternoon (except for Fridays and Sundays), we offer showers to whomever wants them. We will do about 15 showers in the morning and about 25 in the afternoon. The guests can come into the building, which is much cooler, to wait. There are three individual showers and each guest that gets a number is allowed ten minutes to shower.

We provide them with everything here. We give them a towel to use, soap, shampoo, conditioner, toothbrush, toothpaste, razors, lotion, q-tips, deodorant, hair gel, body powder, or whatever else we have and they might want. There are three individual shower rooms, including one able to accommodate handicapped people

As the staff person monitoring showers, there are a couple of things to do. We cycle the guests through, making sure they don’t go beyond their allowed ten minutes. We mop out the showers in between each use. We keep the toiletries stocked in the shower rooms and in the little office we operate out of. We make sure that no one is doing anything illegal or disturbing in the waiting room. We also offer all the said toiletries to anyone who comes and asks, regardless of whether they have a number to take s shower.This all sounds fairly simple, and most of the time it is. Sometimes it is interesting trying to convince someone that they have used their allotted time in the shower and they need to get out. Sometimes people leave amazing messes in the showers. Afterwards, the fun part is scrubbing and cleaning the shower rooms. You can’t wonder sometimes if one person can shed that much hair from their body in ten minutes!