Why is there a shower in the kitchen?!

This is not a question that anybody wants to have to ask, but it was the one that my friends Anne and Ron were faced with when they set out to renovate a dilapidated warehouse.

There seems to be no logical explanation for it; but there in the corner of the kitchen, tiled in tight white squares, stood a shower cubicle - and a large one at that.

I volunteered my brainpower to solving the mystery - why would you put a shower in the kitchen? Here's what I came up with:

1. As an ice-breaker. "Hi I'm Bob and I have a shower in my kitchen, what's your name?"
2. Because you, your builder and the talking camel in the corner agreed that taking another acid trip before a hard day's labour could have no long-term repercussions.
3. To take attention away from the toilet you had installed in the hallway.
4. As a misconceived attempt at impressing your long-term internet chatroom girlfriend who once mentioned she liked to shower and then, in an unrelated sentence, made a reference to her toast being dry.
5. It was a collector's item.
6. To replace the kitchen sink you took along to a party so you could say "I've brought everything including the kitchen sink."
7. To restore symmetry.
8. To prove that washing your hair doesn't need to interfere with making breakfast.
9. Because you have dreams of starting a "wet toast" craze.
10. Tom Cruise probably has one.
11. It was too expensive to get a bathtub.
12. As proof that the IKEA space-saving model has had its failures in the past.
13. As testament to the efficiency of Sven and Inga's ultimate space saving models, even if some big-shot Swedish furniture powerhouse fails to recognise it.
14. To torment Taekwondo masters and journalists with the question "why is there a shower in the kitchen?"