Spring Break and Showering

During Spring Break, college students shut down. Some will shut down by gearing up: they party, party, party, get drunk, and party more. I am not in this category. I couldn't find a good party if you told me to. If you said you'd pay me to go to one, I might be able to, but it would probably end up being some lame one anyway, or be drug busted in the end (I don't know what marijuana smells like. Oops. Sheltered home syndrome….). Another category is the "Saturday group", who treat the entire week as if it were a regular weekend. They sleep late every day, goof off, and just laze around. These can be considered a conservative faction of the last group: the non-showerers. Spring Break rolls around, and they don't shower. At all. They may get out of bed, and the girl variety of these might put on minimal make up. The nerd brand will read a few books. The grease from their aged sleep-sweaty fingers will mark the pages, like bookmarks, of whatever space-science books or Popular Mechanics they happen to be reading, as they lay across their beds or sit on the toilets down the hall. A Spring Break read can be easily identified by the wavy, once-sweaty-wet pages of their read; the memories of their non-bathing will be immediately revived as they look at their reads.

And then, the next break, be it even a Saturday, they will go on strike from the showers again.

Btw, this is all B.S. I made up the categories. However, the non-showering group does exist. I know some of these people. I know some people who avoid showering everyday (so socially unacceptable), and you know who they are at first whiff. But the phenomena of the Spring Breakers club––they're like the kids in the No Baths movie, except that they don't try to get dirty, and definitely not for a good cause. I won't say that they're lazy. I won't even try to claim that they try to go European/old-fashioned/hippy in their time off, that they like to stew in their own juices. They just are, fermenting body excretions and all.