JUST A SILICON-HEMMED PLASTIC STOOL

 You'd think taking a bath was a simple thing.

But now, since I couldn't put my whole strength into my left knee to support my weight, I'd have to think about...what are those things called, "shower chairs"? Wait; maybe the little plastic "ofuro isu" stool Kinya used would suffice. But I tried it once last week, and that one time was enough. That is so low, I was scared to try to get up, also if I tried and managed to tip the stool, it would slip and slide and send me crashing onto the hard, wet tile and hurt myself even worse!

No; that little "ofuro isu" just would not do!

But none of the stores nearby carried shower chairs. WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO who cannot bend their knees enough to use those little plastic stools, I wondered. Kinya showed me. He found "ofuro isu"'s that were almost twice the height of the normal stools. They seemed more stable and you can't see it as well in the photo, but the molding was slightly raised at the back to give back support. Silicon edging around the bottom was provided to prevent slipping.

Doubtless, a westerner would find even this raised stool too close to the floor, but to someone like me with shorter legs, it was fine. And altho' a shower chair's rubber no-slip leg caps and stability was a luxury, for most orientals with smaller bodies, the ofuro isu's silicon rim was sufficient, and for the cost difference, well, it didn't make sense not to get the plastic stool.

Kinya had walked all over creation looking for this, and he was tuckered out. When I told him I wanted it, he had me ask Keima to trot out and get it that night. Thanks so much, fellas! No wonder stores didn't carry shower chairs., I realized; they wouldn't sell!

(Instead, a cheap, plastic stool keeps recuperating/elderly/weak people from hurting themselves while bathing. Hm; you just never know WHAT will be of value, do you?)

"If one therefore, purge himself from these, he will be a vessel to honor, sanctified, and fit for the master's use, and prepared to every good work."   (2 Tim.2:21)