Kepfram & Ellie's Travel Journal

This is a Costa Rican shower head. Recently I discovered they're also called "suicide showers" & I got a taste of why. So most buildings here don't have central water heaters, instead you have shower heads with an ELECTRIC heating element in them. I thought since everybody uses them that they'd obviously be designed safe in some fashion since I thought electricity & water didn't mix. I was wrong. I was in the shower last weekend trying to get the sand off from the beach (water pressue here is uniformly low, & by the way: I really like the beaches on the Pacific ocean, the sand is all powdery, not like on the Atlantic/Caribean coast where the sand is..., like sand) and I tried to hang my bathing suit from the pipe leading to the shower head. As I did this my hands touch the wires leading to the shower head. I felt a bit of a tingle. I thought to myself "Self, what was that?" & then I touched it again to confirm that I was being shocked by the shower wiring. Not my finest moment, but live & learn (hopefully).