Gotta Dry That Man Right Outta My Hair

I need to verify something. Do women wear showercaps these days? Clarification: I'm talking about Caucasian women under 60. Because if we've learned anything from VH1 dating shows, we all know that you can't get a weave wet.

I ask because I do wear a showercap and my husband thinks I'm nuts.

I wear a showercap in the shower for many reasons:

1. I do not wash my hair everyday, but I do shower everyday


2. Drying my hair is a giant pain in the butt, so your theory that I can just get it wet and not wash it does not cut the mustard


3. Showercaps are free at most hotels


4. I enjoy looking like Toadstool while wet and naked

My husband is convinced that I am the only woman in the world (or at least that we know) who wears a showercap. But I don't understand how people can NOT wear them and keep their hair dry. It is a great mystery.

I once read in a magazine that some people tie their hair in a towel, turban-style, to keep their hair dry. I tried this once and ended up with a soaking wet towel. I live in Manhattan. I do not have the real estate in my bathroom to dry a soaking wet towel.

Maybe others have a shower that is set so low that they need to bend their knees to wash their face. I do not have a shower like this. Nor would I ever want one. A nice perk of being short is that my shower hits me square in the face and unclogs my sinuses.

I suppose if I could acquire a super power, it would not be the Alana (The 44oo)/Candace (Heroes) power of relocating to a vacation spot in my mind's eye, it would be the ability to keep my hair dry without embarrassment. Man, what an awful fantasy life I have.

Maybe the solution is to get a showercap so adorable that my husband wil be fooled into thinking that showercaps are awesome. Some designer pattern with skulls and/or neon houndstooth. That would rule.

Yes, I am accepting gifts.