Martin's Inventions: shower curtain pullback

Here's another of former owner Martin's inventions. There's no doubt, absolutely none, that this is a man's inventiveness at work. No woman would ever allow this to happen on her watch, I'm guessing. I wouldn't. And, once the bathroom is gutted hopefully later this week, it will be gone forever, alas. I've let it stand because it works, because I didn't have another immediate solution, because I knew we were renovating, because it's probably been here since Martin's wife died, and perhaps most of all, because it has a certain elegance and even a kind of aesthetic charm.

It makes me happy to share it. It's another of my favorites and really needs no explanation: