Love baths, hate showers...

Baths v showers? No contest... 

Baths are great - deeply-relaxing, deeply-cleansing; and you can read - or sleep - if that way inclined (and I often am). 

And very traditionally English!

After all, Samuel Pepys's wife once had a bath; so he complained (admittedly Pepys himself never did). 

But showers? - Pah!

You Have To Stand Up! 'Nuff said. 

But also; unless the house is very warm, there is an unpleasant always contrast perceptible between the water warmth, and the colder air around. 

Baths are like rapping: Americanization of the worst kind.

(In an act of silent protest; I had daily baths during my sweltering month living in Texas one September). 

And the expense, my dear boy! 

Across three decades, I have spent... well, I have lost count; but some tens of thousand quid on having showers installed, re-installed, re-re and re-re-re installed - and repaired, and not-repaired - and still they leak. 

Once the house needed major surgery due to a long-term undetected leak that had caused "structural issues". 

Properly accounted; each shower taken in our house therefore costs at least several pounds each (at the worst eras, many tens Sterling per drenching)... never mind the price of hot water. 

And all this time I have been lolling in my baths and therefore don't receive the (dubious) benefit of being-sprayed.