The worst sound that you can hear while you are in the shower is the sound of children fighting, because you know immediately that that means your shower is over. Yeah, you’re still in there trying to get clean and have two seconds of peace, but that shower is now a dead man walking. The first scream sets off the countdown timer. Three…two…one… And the bathroom door bursts open.
“Daddy! Daddy! Daddy! So-and-so did blah with the blah! Somebody hit somebody with the something!” And they don’t care that you are in the shower. Children have no respect for either boundaries or privacy. They have no concept of that, because they are kids, and they don’t get any of those things. Parents are always bursting into kids’ rooms and bathrooms and secret hideouts demanding that all fun cease immediately, so the kids learn from this example and start doing it to the grown ups.
And it’s always when you are washing your hair. They have some sort of sinister instinct about these things. Children will never argue as you are getting out of the shower. They will not pull back the shower curtain and start simultaneously shouting if you are just standing happily standing under the water. No, they will wait until your head is all soaped up, with shampoo running down your face into your eyes to engage the attack.
I’ve tried to change this, believe me. I wash my hair at different times, just to try to throw them off. Sometimes I jump in the shower, turn the water on, and start washing my hair right away! Doesn’t matter. Somehow they know. I can guarantee you this: if you have shampoo in your hair, you are going to see little heads peeking in on you, and they are probably upset about something.
Of course they’re not always fighting. Sometimes they like to interrupt your shower just for fun. Maybe they just miss you. After all, they haven’t seen you in over four minutes. Maybe they want to show you something. Perhaps they feel that you do not have enough toys in there with you, in which case they are happy to start throwing them in. But regardless of the reason, you should know that having kids means many years of half-showers and no privacy. I’m not sure when they will stop doing this, but hopefully by the time they are teenagers.