"Steven Watkins" wrote in message
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On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 15:35:38 -0000, GB wrote:

On 10/11/2018 15:33, Steven Watkins wrote:
Why do houses have a switch to turn the shower off, either a cord on the
ceiling or a switch in the hall?

Can't be for safety - if you're in the shower and get a shock, if you've
managed to get out to reach the switch, you've got away from it anyway.

Can't be to isolate to work on it, there's a fusebox for that.

Don't need to turn it off when you're finished showering, there's a
switch on the shower itself.

If I answer this, do you promise to **** off?

It's so somebody not in the shower can isolate it quickly before helping
the poor bugger who is being electrocuted.

And how many times has this ever actually happened?

Irrelevant.

And why are we therefore not forbidden to have showers when nobody else is
home?

Because that's not practical.

And why can't they make showers which are guaranteed not to electrocute
you?

They do.

And why can't the other person just switch the shower off on its own
switch?

Because, if the person in the shower has just
got electrocuted, they would be too, stupid.