eli5 Why do shower curtains always try to touch you while showering?
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HOW I FIXED THIS PROBLEM.
I had this problem at an old apartment. Every time I took a shower, the curtain would attack my legs. Not being one to just give up and let life suck, I thought I’d take a closer look at what was going on. In that shower, the shower curtain rod was removable. Turns out, some idiot installed it too far into the shower, letting the curtain hang straight down and allowing for a small air gap to turn into a large gap as air is pulled in at the bottom. Plus, there were no magnets to stick it to the tub with.
I unscrewed the shower curtain rod, and moved it further out away from the shower so that the curtain was on a slight diagonal. The weight of the curtain now was keeping it pinned to the sides of the tub, and the airflow wasn’t strong enough to move it.
[Crude sketch](https://imgur.com/a/Ld2LF2V)
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