Ok, that really is a rhetorical question; I really, really do not want any answer.
Why ask the question then you may ponder? Well, given the vast wasteland of television, I am frequently reduced to watching the Food Network and HGTV (I TIVO ® the more educational programs such as Wipeout). On HGTV, there are several shows where people are looking to buy a new home and we are taken on the tour of perspective purchases. More often than not, the bathroom(s) is too small for the potential buyers. Every time I hear that, I run into my own bathroom(s) to check the size. Mine are best described as tiny and small. There is no double sink, no Jacuzzi tub, no lounging area, not enough room for two people and a total distance of about eighteen inches between the tub and the sink. Watching these potential homebuyers evaluating bathrooms based on the view from the whirlpool, the granite counter tops, dual sinks and twenty person showers with more water pouring out of them then Niagara Falls makes me feel downright inadequate. How did my wife and four children ever manage with two very modest size bathrooms? Better still how did my parents and the three children manage in an apartment with one bathroom?
I am not sure of the attraction to have more than one person in a bathroom at one time although I am easily persuaded as to the benefits of a two-person shower. Americans truly have a distorted perspective when it comes to necessities, not only do they need bathrooms the size of my garage, they apparently need several of them which begs the question with so many bathrooms why are they concerned about having more than one person in there at the same time. Oh, I know, four of them are not en suite.
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