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There are 3 scenes that have managed to traumatize my bathing experiences. The infamous shower scene in Hitchcock's Psycho had me pulling open the shower curtain like a schizophrenic child. Stephen King's IT turned me into an adolescent smelly hippy because I remained too afraid to bathe for fear of something coming up from the drain. The Billy Mays KABOOM infomercial has this part, at around 1:05, where he wipes away soap scum and his reflection eerily appears in the shower's faucet. When I see it, time stands still and I'm taken to a bathtub where I am draining the water. I glance up at the faucet to see Billy's face watching mine. His reflection paralyzes me as he whispers, "KABOoOooOM, I'm watching you." I gasp! Then I'm snapped back to reality. Billy Mays is incapable of whispering. *whew*

I love me some Billy Mays. The man has been captivating me since my early teens. Being a total insomniac I would gaze at the television for hours watching Billy hawk OxiClean. I remember thinking, "Damn, I wish my clothes could get that clean!" Billy Mays can get me excited about any product.
Grown-up me still suffers from insomnia and still indulges in the Billy Mays' infomercials. Because of this, I've decided to start BILLY MAYS' MONDAYS! woooo! Each week I'll pick a product from Billy's arsenal. Sadly, I have most likely owned the product or at least known someone who has. If I haven't, I'll do my best to lie to you and pretend like I have. Hell, I may even buy it in preparation for the blog! Hercules Hooks, here I come!
Naturally, the first product on Billy Mays' Mondays has to be OxiClean. This is the product that introduced us to the man, no, the mystery, that is Billy Mays. As stated previously, I watched many an OxiClean infomercial so upon leaving home at 18, I decided that OxiClean would be my very first detergent purchase. This is a true story. I'm not BS'in you. I was very excited, buying everything I needed to settle my very first apartment and even more excited about doing laundry. That's where the excitement ended. OxiClean does not make laundry fun and it's just like any other detergent aside from turning into hydrogen peroxide when it dissolves in water. I never bought OxiClean again but it will always have a special place in my heart. If it were not for this product, Billy Mays may have never touched my life and the lives of others. Who wants to live in a world like that!?