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I find myself looking forward to the MSR almost as much as the VIP! Really enjoy the feature!

This is officially my favorite weekly feature on the site. It gets better every week, and I'm already looking forward to see what the market brings next week. Great job, MSR! +1

@ Wes - Congratulations on being the only other person I know that now has a falling down twice in the shower story.

When I was a teenager I was taking a shower in the back bathroom of my parents house. To get to that bathroom you have to travel through my mom's master bedroom. There was another communal bathroom, but it was in need of repair, so instead of my mother using the master and my father and I using the communal...we were all three using the same bathroom. I'm telling you this to illustrate that there was enough use in this one shower to indicate a build up of oily residue at its base. That means lots of people using it caused the oily build-up (we're not nasty people...well, my mom isn't and I'm saying this for her benefit...in case she somehow ever reads this obscure post...whatever). Anyway, as I'm showering I stick my foot in what I suppose was the oiliest spot and much like a cartoon I launched head first into the tub basin taking the shower curtain down with me. As I'm getting my barrings my mom starts banging on the door. "Are you okay in there?!?!" Me - "Yes. I'm fine. I slipped. It's cool." I get the curtain back up and I get back to washing and I think, "Now how did I manage to do that? Let's see. I put my foot here...whoa!" and I was down again. I'm picking my delirious naked arse up out of the tub basin and here comes my mom banging on the door, "What in God's name are you doing in there?!?!" Me - "Sorry. Fell down again, mom. I'm okay."