Towel

Towel.. it is very simple stuff in our house, but I think it is necessary and useful in daily life. Maybe we didn’t notice and didn’t appreciate, but life without towel would be difficult. We have many kind of towels. The most popular are fabric and paper. They have also a lot of sizes so every towel with different size we can use to something else.

I think in the bathroom towel is important. You can use it for drying the hands after washing them, body and hair after showering or bathing. It can be used as carpet or bathroom mat, is placed on the bathroom floor to stand on after finishing a shower or bath. In the kitchen you can dry the dishes. In general in the house you can use towels to clean tables, remove dust from a television (if you have). We can take towel to the beach. We can lie on it when we want to sunbath and we can dry our body after swimming. When you workout and you don’t have a mat to practice you can use the towel. It is very useful because you don’t feel cold from the floor and after practice when you sweat you can dry your body or at least your face.

Now I should tell about towel paper because nowadays it is necessary. Towel paper is a piece of paper that can be used once as a towel and then be disposed of. We use it all the time. I think mostly towel is needed in the public place because it comes to hygienic, but it is also comfortable. Nobody has to wash and do the ironing all the time when it is dirty. Towel paper can be used in the public toilets, offices, hotels, salons of beauty and particularly in the hospitals.

The most popular mention about towel is contained in the book Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
'A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta,[…] wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat[…] you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value.[…] 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

Since 11th of May 2001 two weeks after Adams’ death people who loved his books created a commemorative Towel Day. Now it is celebrated every year on 25of May as tribute to the author.

The towel is so popular in the world, almost everybody use it and even people write about it in the books. So, where did it come from??? Do you think the towel was invented in Greece?