One major issue I have with the new place we moved into last month.

A tub instead of a shower in the bathroom.

And my only question is … why?

Does anyone still use a bathtub?

I know people say they do. Or will. Or could. Sometime in the future.

But I know almost no one who actually fills a tub, sits in their own dirty water and gradually gets colder and colder because half of their bodies are out the water. (Plus, how to do you wash your hair in a tub? Badly, I imagine.)

A shower is the way to go … and a tub with a shower is really just a crummy shower.

You’re standing at the end of it, and you’ve inevitable got only a curtain separating the shower water from the floor of the bathroom … and the water inevitable leaks out.

In the Teeny Apartment, which was otherwise inferior to where I am now … we had a great bathroom. It was tiny, but it had everything you could want, including a shower the size of a phone booth (remember those?) in the corner. It was shaped like a quarter of a circle, and had two curved doors that opened about two feet … and it hardly leaked.  The temperatures inside the shower remained constant. It was almost perfect, or seemed like it, considering how many basic things don’t work in local apartments.

Now … a bathtub with a shower head at the end. In theory, this tub has jets, but who wants to test that? Not me. I want in and out, and I don’t want water all over the floor, and I don’t like being cold, but I always will be because the tub is just out there in the room, and a shower curtain would have to cover two sides, and the curtain isn’t that long.

It’s a disaster. A constant source of irritation.

And I want it gone. Don’t give me a tub. Ever. In fact, take them out of all hotel rooms, or at least offer me a shower. A tub only means potential injury and flooded bathrooms and unpleasant experiences with drafty air.

I hate bathtubs, and it’s the one blight on this apartment. I wonder if they would let me pull it out and replace it with a shower. Probably not. It’s a rental, after all.