Art: you are entitled to your opinion as am I. Mine is that showers are hard work to feel completely clean as you need to direct the water to every individual place (if it will reach & you can get at it), and if it's the fixed head type I never feel completely clean after using one. They are also a pain if you have long hair as you either have to wear a shower cap, which leaves me feeling hot and sweaty, or spend ages trying to rinse the soap out (and it never quite does). I guess if you don't have much hair that's not a problem. All this far from waking me up tends to leave me tired and wanting a rest. With a bath I can run it while I have my morning juice, put my hair up out of the way, soap, dip and I'm done. Much quicker if I've not much time. Not being a morning person, I also like to wake up in a calm manner which sets the tone for the day. Showers leave me feeling stressed and frazzled, rather than invigorated. I guess if you've been working somewhere that you get coated with something, oil or mud or such, then rinsing the "crud" off first would make sense, but to completes the job and get everywhere, thoroughly, I still feel a bath is better.