Originally Posted by Mike Rivers

I assume you're not asking just for a picture of a shower head. You can find one like the one I carry with me at Home Depot

No plumbers tape required. They generally don't leak when they're just a bit beyond finger-tight. Sometimes they're so corroded (or the hotel's maintenance department was afraid that someone would steal the shower head) that they're really difficult to remove. There have been two or three times when I've been defeated. Some require just a little twist to get them off, others take all the torque I can apply with the TSA-legal size channel-lock piers that I carry in my "bathroom stuff" bag.



If you'd like to see a picture of me in the shower with my personal shower head, you'll have to be better at searching the USA Today photo archive than I am. One evening while on a trip, I was reading the free copy of USA Today in my hotel room. In the Travel section, they asked travelers about things they do to make their hotel room feel more like home, so I e-mailed that I brought along my own shower head and a pair of pliers so I could change out the usually clogged shower head in the hotel bathroom. The next day, I received a reply asking if they could send out a photographer to take a picture of me and my shower head for a follow-up article. I was going to be there for a few more days (the Embassy Suites in Arcadia, CA) and we made arrangements to meet the next evening. After a free drink, we went up to my room to take a photo, and darn if they didn't publish it. I used to have a copy of the page in the newspaper but it seems to have slipped beneath the surface here.

If anyone wants to try to search for the photo, I'm pretty sure it was in the edition around or exactly April 1, most likely between 1996 and 1999.