As devoted readers may recall, I promised to continue to look into the question of why women prefer baths and men prefer showers (yesof course, by and large; there are exceptions). The latest info comes from a male, age 42: “A bath? I’ve tried it. You’ve got all the water on you, then what do you do? You’re on the lam, and when you hear that siren sounding, you really got to move. But you can’t.”