What is it about Chinese Water Torture?

As usual when I have a mental block, I surf the net in hopes of getting an idea. Well, I was reading a blog on The Junk Drawer about annoying ice cream truck music and I thought about something that annoyed me the other day...

There's a show on the Discovery Channel that I'm sure you've seen--Myth Busters. Well, I was watching it one night and they were doing an experimnent with Chinese water torture. They tested it out with two of the cast members. One was strapped in and the other was not. Well, the guy who was not strapped in had to pee quite badly. The girl who was strapped in began to cry after a while and wanted to be unfastened from her seat. Although I am an irritable person, I thought this was nuts. I've always wondered how something like this could drive you literally insane... and then it hit me--literally.

The other day, I was doing something with the faucets in my tub and the water from the shower head kept dripping on my head. I'm not sure why, but after three drips, I wanted to freak out. After just three small drops, the water had driven me nuts. I was alone in the bathroom and I stood up, huffing and puffing, with no hope of a brighter day. I was mad, furious, pissed off, as if someone had done something to make me angry. So... I'm not sure what it is about dripping water, but if I had been on Myth Busters for the mentioned episode, I would have been the one to freak out--strapped in or not!