this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2025
168 points (95.7% liked)

Showerthoughts

38729 readers
771 users here now

A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I once missed a call from my mother on my cell phone because it was getting late...

I got in trouble due to the fact I didn't call her back.

The phone didn't have caller ID on it.. so I had no idea who had called. All it said one 1 missed call.

Cell phone tech has definitely been a process.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I got in trouble once because there was a small earthquake in Brooklyn that made everyone call each other so it clogged up the lines, this was before 5g so the congestion problems were way worse.

Mom at first thought I broke her phone lol.

Your comment reminded me of that incident lol

So every time after that, I'd bring up that incident when ever my parents falsely accuse of doing something wrong

[–] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

Haha that's a great excuse...

But mom! Earthquake!!!

That's so in line with the dog ate my homework, plausible but not probable.

Love it. Haha