When you get out of the shower, does the water bead up on your body, or run off in sheets?

I think this is a function of the "hardness" of the water and the stringence of the soap. Sometimes beading, sometimes sheeting.

The water beads up on me no matter what soap I use or where I take the shower. I've got to assume that body chemistry has something to do with it too. Maybe the quantity and quality of the tiny hairs, too.

It runs down my hair in torrents even after I've squeezed the water out like four times, but it beads up on my skin. I've noticed that too Milktree.

milktree - I would suspect more that you have oily (not dry) skin...

Bill: yea, that was my thought, but I would expect that just about any soap out there would be able to remove oil from my skin faster than I can produce it, and yet when I soap up my arm (or whatever) and rinse it off the water beads up immediatly. Weird.

mostly it runs off in rivulets.

Other. It runs off in beads.

never really paid much attention

I've never taken the time to observe.

Obligatory other option: It forms droplets in the loops formed by my curly body fur. I squeegee it off with my hands so that I can get reasonably dry with one towel.

I completely fail to understand this question. Do different people live by different physical laws?

drdt: if the question was "does gravity hold you to the planet" the answer would be simple, even though you might not be able to understand the alternative to "yes". So, does the water bead up, or run off in sheets?

mt: if the question was 'does gravity hold you to the planet' I would have had exactly the same comment. I also would have (as I did with this one) answer the question and been totally unsurprised when everyone else voted the same as me except for a couple jokers.