The Towel Lovers

A 5yo turned up today after taking his shower and had an important question-

"Appa, we always use the towel on clean body washed with fresh water. Why should we ever wash it then, isn't it always clean??"

I mumbled something along the lines of "erm..you know ..wet towels are.. well, bacteria and germs like to grown on wet towels, so we should wash and dry them in the sun!". He listened but seemed unconvinced.

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Some 20 years ago, in my bachelor apartment, my roommate tortured me with the same logic and I had to live with a large slumbering presence of a bluish-grey humid towel in the room, which could easily go unwashed for months, and looked like mushrooms could sprout out of it any moment!

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There exists this small but thought-provoking tribe of people scattered across the world, who refuse to wash their towels due to the above-mentioned rationale -

The Towel Lovers - who cannot stand a day's separation from their favourite towels and would not let them undergo a rigorous wash!