No head towels, please

[threeplusfire]

Those 'turbie' twist towels for your head, to keep your wet hair out of the way.

Now, towels are useful. A nice fluffy, soft towel can be a great thing. Maybe when you first moved into a place all on your own, someone gave you a nice, practical gift of towels. But.. would you give someone a used towel as a gift? Is *one* towel, specifically one towel useful only for the head, an appropriate thank you gift? The reason I ask is because I stumbled across this gem while at work this evening:

I use my Turbie Twist in the shower as a shower cap and it is great! I have also been known to take two with me when I go visit and I usually leave one with my hostess. It's a great way to say thank you for having me in your home.

Just so you know, if you come stay at my house, please don't give me a used head towel. We're cool. If you really want me to have some towels, send me a gift card for my birthday. Or if you want to say thanks for letting me stay here, just buy me a cup of coffee.

Comments

[norda.livejournal.com]

Oh, my giddy aunt!

When I thought I was immune to all the nonsense ideas that crass commercialism could come up with... the used towel serves to boggle me anew.

Thank you for the giggle.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I'm glad to share the hilarity.

[kythryne.livejournal.com]

Setting aside the ewwww factor (which, yeah, please just bring me some cheap wine or something) of that... really, how hard is it to just twist a towel around your head?

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I think it depends on the towel - I've encountered oddly sized towels that were just slightly too short to make a decent head turban. If you had *lots* of hair, I could see buying special head towels or bigger towels.

Mike didn't know how to make a towel turban. :O I was boggled.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Or pie!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Pie is always a good choice.

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

See now, I have something kind of like that which is some material that just SUCKS the water from my head. It's awesome. Cuts the time I need with my hair dryer to almost nothing.

...but I would never LEAVE it for someone though I might give one as gift, if someone has hair they've complained about. but not as a thank you gift.

More a hey, with this you can sleep ten minutes more in the morning gift.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I like that - with this you get ten extra minute of sleep gifts! Brilliant.

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

I'm telling you, ten more minutes of sleep?

Best. Gift. Ever.

[k00kaburra.livejournal.com]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess (hope?) that the speaker only used one of the towels while visiting, and left a clean one for her hostess? Because I could *almost* see someone doing that.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I really hope your interpretation is correct. One never knows, reading these submitted reviews, just what people are thinking...

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

The more expensive microfiber version actually is very good for quick-drying long hair in the morning, but...leaving a used one as a houseguest gift? Ewwwwwwwww.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Any gift that becomes an immediate chore (laundry time!) is hardly a gift.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

I read that as bringing two , using one , and leaving the other unused one behind. Maybe I'm just sanitary in my old age.

Pie!!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Well, you are smarter than the average bear. Your Earth Logic may be too logical. :D

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Also : what would be cool is a head towel that has a print on it that looks like a headcrab when you are done wrapping it.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God.

I bet you could sell a lot of those. That thought, it terrifies me.

*Runs away to hide under a pie!*

[fox-c.livejournal.com]

ummm - I actually use them. Not the branded kind, but a knock off that a friend made for me. Then again if you have long hair the chances are that normal towels don't hold it all. . .

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I can definitely see having a towel with the elastic when one has such long hair as you do. The towels themselves I have no problem with - it's the idea that the review writer just left one (possibly used) towel behind...

[fox-c.livejournal.com]

See and there I would assume from the passage that the giftor brough one towel to use and one new one as a gift - otherwise why bring two? Depending on the host/ess, I can see that being a very nice gesture.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

That would be the much nicer route. I just couldn't help but picture someone leaving laundry behind. I think this was after reading some hundred odd reviews from the shopping networks, which are usually a strange mix.

[solstice-singer.livejournal.com]

Lol. I totally think I'll start leaving a single, used towel wherever I happen to be visiting.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Hahah it could become a new trend.