Abstract: A removable straw cover that is sterile in combination with a sterile drinking straw protects the drinking straw against bacterial contamination. A line of circumferential indentations separates the straw cover into a upper proximal portion and a remaining distal portion. Separation along such circumferential line of indentations is effected by grasping closed ends of the straw cover and longitudinally extending the straw cover along its longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A shower curtain support has a shower curtain rod mounted by opposing wall brackets on parallel end walls of a shower stall. The rod slidably suspends a conventional shower curtain across the front opening of the shower stall. Spiders on the terminal ends of the rod are indexably received by spider plates of the wall brackets to dispose the rod in a number of radial orientations relative to the wall brackets. In another embodiment for infinite radial orientations of the rod within the full range of 360.degree., outturned flanges on the rod ends, sandwiched between inturned flanges of compression nuts and closed ends of threaded studs projecting from wall brackets, allow such infinite radial orientations of the rod relative to the wall brackets.