Alternative pro tip: forget to go to the gym, have towel
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Do you usually just walk back from the shower to your locker dripping water everywhere?
My gym has separate little shower/changing rooms
Just because:
A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.
Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1))
There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.
A hoopy frood
Hey, you sass that hoopy limer?
Everybody beat me to it. So long!
...and thanks for all the fish 😜 🐬🐬🐬
The first useful thing we invented was the pointed stick.
Second was string.
Third the towel.
The towel hits a sweet spot. It's got development history. It's got archetypal grounding. It's the Zeus of inventions.
Make sure you remember your lock combo before locking your belongings up when you take a shower. I came back to my locker and couldn't open it once. No phone, no glasses, just flip flops in a towel. Not a fun experience. Thankfully I remembered the code before too embarrassingly long.
If the Internet has taught me anything, it's that a Masterlock can be easily opened with another Masterlock.
But you need the code to THAT masterlock to use it to open the first masterlock.
I've forgotton a towel when I went swimming before. Ended up using my shirt as a towel and dressing in just my sweater.
Yeah I ended up using gym t shirt that was fairly clean since I didn't do cardio. It all worked out in the end
You trained without a towel?
Yeah, I don't really sweat when I lift. If I'm doing cardio I'll bring a little sweat towel with me
I’ve done that before. It sucked cause it was also 14°F out. So I had to drive home in the cold while wet.
Did you drive naked?
No, but I did go in shorts and a t shirt. So I had to leave in those clothes too.
Maybe you could squeegee yourself on the funky floor tiles
Wanna go get hiiiiiiiigh?
This is a Facebook thought imo
I don't think 90% of the people who post on this comm have any idea how Showerthoughts works.
How does this one go against the community description...?
Classically "Showerthoughts" were more along the lines of the Philosoraptor meme topics. I even found one that both fits this description and the literal comm name. However, people in this comm tend to take the concept super literally. Incidentally, a trend that seems to pervade most humor these days, too.
That may be what reddit said they were, but this is not reddit. Most of the ones that people complain about fit the community description just fine.
I don't have Facebook though. And I was all wet. Seemed appropriate