Weshalb das Handtuch? Am 25. Mai ist Towel Day – an dem Tag zeigen die Fans von Douglas Adams (Autor von so genialen Büchern wie „per Anhalter durch die Galaxis„)
Aber mal ehrlich, so ein Handtuch ist ober-super-praktisch und kann fast überall und für alles eingesetzt werden und dann ist noch das:
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have „lost.“ What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
