Culture Shock: The Hypnotoad

It's taken a lot to get used to the noise our new shower makes. They have a “masticator” in all of the shower drains here, and it goes off automatically at periodic intervals whenever water is draining. Essentially, it’s like a giant garbage disposal underneath the shower that flips on every minute or so. It sounds something like this:

GOOOOOOERRRRRRRRRRRRROWWW!!!

Actually, it sounds exactly like the “hypnotoad” from Futurama. So much so that Matt and I have taken to formally referring to the shower as "The Hypnotoad." As in, "Hey... I'm going to visit The Hypnotoad, and I'll be down for breakfast in a few minutes."

The Hypnotoad:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w94GQyLqfIM

It's certainly an invigorating noise. Really wakes you up in the morning. (And pretty much everyone else in the house, too. That thing is loud.)

What I find most strange is that although they've incorported garbage disposals into the showers here, almost no one in England has a garbage disposal in the kitchen sink. If they have the technology to incorporate garbage disposals within the showers, why don’t they put them in the sinks as well??

Puzzling, indeed.