Dumb shower puzzle
Posted on:: July 8th, 2005
For many of you the only puzzle will be why I didn’t realize this instantly. Anyway:
Our shower has a single lever that adjusts the hot and cold. Over the years I’ve noticed that my preferred temperature is at the 5 o’clock position during the winter but at 8 during the summer, i..e, I move the lever more toward cold during the summer. Since it seemed unlikely that our hot water heater was heating water hotter during the summer, I’ve assumed I just like a colder shower in the summer. Today I realized that that’s probably not the case.
What’s going on?