Which is more pleasant?
1) Because I don't have a water softener, my well water turns my bathtub and shower a dingy brown.  My daughter screams and cries the entire time she is in the bath because she says the brown stuff scares her. 
2) Because I don't have a water softener, my well water turns my bathtub and shower a dingy brown.  I spent the better part of my weekend scrubbing my bathtub out.  A: 2