The greatest invention in the history of mankind has got to be the household manifold water delivery system...

This miracle of modern technology assigns a dedicated piece of pipe to every tap and fixture in the home, thus eliminating the "Pummeling Spikes Of Ice" in the shower, when someone flushes a toilet elsewhere in the home.

If you've got a large family, chances are that even if you arise at 4:30 AM, and bolt directly from bed to shower, someone else will pick exactly the moment that you are lathering in suds to begin a load of laundry. You will spend the rest of your shower shivering and scraping icicles off of body parts that really should have their own source of heat to keep sufficient warmth.

How we as a civilization survived so long without the household manifold water delivery system boggles the mind. It even sounds poetic when you say it. Practical, and sublime.

As you might have suspected, we currently have a household manifold water delivery system in our home, and I have every belief that it has personally saved my life, even in this year so far.

In our old home, I would somehow always seem to have to use the "water closet" whenever my wife was trying to get ready for work. Specifically, as she was showering.

Now, even rats in a lab will learn to quit biting into cheese that has an electrical current attached to it, but do you suppose that I would learn not to flush a biffy when I hear the water running in a shower?? It is an amazing exhibition of patience for a woman to wait until her shower is completely over and done with, and hair perfectly styled to then search me out in the home, and thank me so much for altering the temperature of her water. That Nerf bat can still pack a sting, let me tell you...

Chow for now!!