True Life Tuesday: I Survived Accidentally Using My Sister-in-Law’s ‘Show Towels’

I didn't even know what a 'show towel' was until I was already in trouble.

Perhaps it's because I am the youngest of four kids and spent most of my childhood just making sure there was a dry towel for me to use, but until this weekend I'd never encountered a "show towel."

In case, like me, you're unfamiliar with a show towel, according to Urban Dictionary, a show towel is pretty useless, but serves a purpose.

In my experience this means a Santa towel in my mom's downstairs bathroom around Christmas, but I didn't realize it also includes full length shower towels.

Saturday I ran a race with my sister-in-law and a few of our friends and then we went back to her and my brother's house. I was crazy sweaty and they said I could take a shower.

Then, I did. I went upstairs and as I was about to get in the shower, I realized I never asked for a towel. "That's ok," I thought, "there is a body towel right here next to the shower."

Fast forward a half an hour, and I hear from the stairwell, "MICHELLE, you used the show towel?!"

"Oh man... what's a show towel?" I thought. Apparently those towels have been hanging in that bathroom, untouched, for a year. Until I used them.

Whoops. I'm sorry, Erin, I didn't know what a show towel was! Now I do, and I will never take a shower anywhere without confirming I have non-show towels to use.

What about you... do you have show towels in your house? Are they full size? Only decorative? Did someone use your show towel? I need to know.