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The only rug that signed up to absorb your bad decisions, dripping.

means A small absorbent mat placed on the floor beside a bath or shower to catch water and give wet feet something to stand on.

from Straightforward compound of 'bath' + 'mat,' with 'mat' tracing back through Old English 'meatt,' itself borrowed from Latin 'matta,' meaning a mat or coarse fabric woven from rushes — originally the thing you'd throw down on a floor long before anyone had indoor plumbing to drip onto it.

job description
stop you from eating tile, face first
dirty secret
holds more bacteria than the toilet seat
lifespan
should be replaced every two years, isn't
memory foam versions
basically stepping on a cloud's regret
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