Length of Shower: Perhaps "amount of time" would be better rather than "length" of shower. --We have all heard the expression, “anal retentive" for a person who is very well organized and clean almost to a fault. The word "anal" in this phrase really has nothing to do with the anus at all. I know it comes from a person's potty training and blah blah blah that the experts say; but in reality it has little-to-nothing to do with a person's ass.
Well, I was thinking today about someone who would actually spend an unusually extensive amount of time cleaning their own backside. Would we call that person an “anal attentive?” If so, then we could call someone who brushes their teeth to excess an “orally attentive” person. And someone who spends a lot of time cleaning there fingers and toes a “digitally attentive” person. Going further we could call someone who washes their face and/or uses lotion and creams to excess a person who is “facially attentive” or perhaps create a new word altogether and call them “maskly attentive.” If all of those phrases are passable then we could use them in conversation to make excuses for the blemishes of our friends; like my bald friend Arthur, “Oh, don’t worry about him, he’s just a little ‘follically attentive’ if you know what I mean.”
I wonder if the above makes me come off a little “verbally attentive?” Nah, probably just makes me “jargonally abusive."
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