Euphemisms

Staying in a hotel at Heathrow for a conference in the week, I noticed that the various products in the bathroom were rather strangely named.

Anyone guess what “‎Your smoothness” actually was? Shower gel.

“Your restitution”? Shampoo.

Even more strangely: “Your whim”- a shower cap.

But then I realised the logic behind the naming madness. For sometimes one might need to phone for additional products to be shipped to one’s room, and it is so much less embarrassing for a girl to have to ask for “Your penance” than for a cane with which to be beaten. (And no, perverts, there wasn’t anything in the bedside drawer for girls to use called “Your pleasure”!)

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