Truck stop shower

Are you taking showers at the old run down truck stops? Modern truck stop are not so bad

 

In the old days,it was rare to find a private shower,or even a clean one.Most truckstop showers were community showers,like in the service. When it was busy,you'd be taking a shower with 10 other guys,keeping your wallet in your mouth in some locations,so your pants pockets didn't get picked.Always carried a pair of flip flops for the dirty shower floors.

 

The showers at Zimmers truckstop in Los Angeles were so bad even the Mexicans wouldn't use them.We were laid over there one weekend,and we found a poor old malnourished dog wandering around the parking lot.Fed him,but his coat and skin was awful,needed a bath.The showers there were upstairs from the fuel desk.We had someone distract the fuel girl clerk,and we carried this big dog upstairs,and put him in the shower,soaped him up real good with warm water.He loved it,and started howling to beat the band he was feeling so good,the whole truckstop could hear him!

 

Thats funny right there lol

 

I have tinactin foot spray I use after every shower. "Tough actin' Tinactin"

 

Got a half of a towel and half of it was bleached stained from one offering one complimentary with a fill up. I took it but was a very low moment for me.

 

The big chief truck stop in Joplin back in the day you hs
ad to share your shower with coach roaches as big as a mouse , I hated showering there

 

I think it was a regional thing. My dad hauled produce from California to the east, and I went with him in the '70s. At the truckstops through Amarillo, they had individual showers. When you got back east it was group showers and they smelled like sulfur!