Hardwired

As I was in the shower this morning something happened...the water was streaming as normal but when i heard the intake from the pipe, signalling a change in water pressure, i quickyly moved out from under the water into the corner of my shower...it wasn't until afterwards that i realized something...i haven't made that move since i lived in dorm 3 years previous...

you see when i lived in dorm i learned quickly that when you hear that intake from the pipe it meant that somewhere in our two floors someone was flushing a toilet which meant you got hit by scalding water...which meant a quick move to the corner to escape the burn...

i hadn't made that move since i was in dorm three years ago...but at the first sign of the same old encounter i reacted as though it had happened yesterday...and quickly moved to the corner...

it's funny how some habits die so hard...i moved so quickly to avoid a burn that so far in my past had always been there after that sign...but today the sign was there and no burn...but i jumped out of the way none-the-less...to avoid it...