LOL...when I have been involved with things like camping or other extended activities where a shower is not possible, I can go without bathing for a period of time.
But I damn well find a creek or an ocean somewhere, where, even if freezing cold, I will immerse in it however briefly.
If that is not possible, I will at minimum, find a way to fully dunk my head, and always use a damp cloth for the rest of me.
I had the same response: “145 showers?”
When I was in the Navy, one of the things I especially despised was the “Navy Shower” where you are supposed to turn the water on very briefly, get wet, immediately turn the water off, soap up, turn the water back on, rinse off, then immediately turn the water off.
Granted, I absolutely and fully understand that the Grunts in the field don’t even get that, but it isn’t the point.
I swore, when I got out of the Navy, I was never again going to take a “Navy Shower”.
LOL, one of the retrospectively funny things about that was getting soaped up while the water was off, then hearing the start of the Bosun’s whistle signifying an unannounced General Quarters drill, where all the fresh water would get shut off immediately, first thing, no questions asked.
At the commencement of the Bosun’s whistle over the 1MC system, the response was universally a profane “S**T! S**T! S**T! S**T!” exclamation as you frantically tried to get the lathered soap off of your body before the water summarily stopped flowing!
And that was if you were lucky.
If you weren’t lucky, and someone in the engineering spaces had advance notice of the GQ Drill (as they occasionally did) they might well shut off the water before you heard the first note of the Bosun’s whistle!
On top of all this, they had people who were tasked with wandering through the heads during the change of shifts (12 hours on, 12 hours off) and if someone left the water running too long, they would bang on the side of the shower and yell at you to turn the water off.
Everyone hated those people.
So, when I got out of the Navy, I resolved to take showers as long as I could, until I ran the hot water tank dry (unless there were others in the house who needed hot water too, in which case I took a normal shower.) For decades, my normal shower has been a seven minute piping hot shower that turns my skin red, but if I need to wake up, or if my chronic back pain is flaring up, I can take a shower approaching 30 min.
When I first got out of the Navy and lived at home when I was commuting to college, my dad (a 30 year Navy vet) would sit in the kitchen early in the morning, drinking his third cup of coffee and smoking his fourth cigarette, and could shut the water to the shower upstairs off if he thought I was in there too long. And occasionally, depending on his mood...did!
I’ve never been in the navy, but did shower once at a pay-shower. I thought it would be nice to have hot water instead of a cold creek. Hated it. Trying to feed quarters into the machine just out of reach of the shower, getting caught as I had 1 more minute of rinsing to do and it turned off.
And then had to start it all over again with the initial minimum charge.