If I Could Write The Locker Room Rules... [Archive] - Women's Cycling Discussion Forums

carpaltunnel

03-01-2007, 02:38 PM

Most people who regularly work out at a gym try to fit in and not cause inconvenience to others, or unreasonaable costs to gym. On the other side of that, most of us also understand that we're all a little different, and a little tolerance goes a long way...but if you're like me there are some people who make you wish you could post the rules. Let's have some fun and write the rules that should be hanging at the gym. I'll put one out here in a minute, as soon as I pick the my pettest of pet peeves... :D If you've got one, chime in!

Bluetree

03-01-2007, 02:42 PM

NO CELL PHONES!!!!

Veronica

03-01-2007, 02:43 PM

Don't put on your make-up, style your hair, or whatever in front of the paper towel dispenser.

carpaltunnel

03-01-2007, 02:50 PM

Thanks, good start. I've been off polishing up my "rule" but it turned out more like a rant. I've written this in my head so many times:

PHONES
The sign says “Cell phone use only in entrance area.” That means you honey. We don’t want to hear the details of your life since you last talked to your friend on the drive to the gym five minutes ago, or how you stood up boring Grandma for Thanksgiving dinner to meet up with a cute guy you’d met at the bar, or how the witch at work actually wanted you to WORK, for Pete’s sake. We don’t want to listen to it ringringringring in the locker either. Get a life and lose the phone.
P.S. After you left, we spontaneously voted that Grandma should cut you out of the will.

Kitsune06

03-01-2007, 02:51 PM

Do not allow your children to run about like wild buffalo

Do not spread your cr@p out all over the entire bench

Please wipe the bench after you sat on it in your swim suit- it's wet.

No nasty shoes on the same wet bench, then it's wet AND dirty...

If you have to look, at least do it subtly.

Deanna

03-01-2007, 02:51 PM

Don't put on your make-up, style your hair, or whatever in front of the paper towel dispenser.

Or over the sink.

Don't take up the whole bench with your "stuff" when changing. And in no way, leave your stuff on the bench unattended. (I see Kitsume typed this in and posted before I did).

Don't leave your cell phone ringer on and leave the phone in the locker. Locker rooms often echo and your ringtone isn't THAT cool.

Veronica

03-01-2007, 02:52 PM

Perfume is supposed to be used sparingly.

carpaltunnel

03-01-2007, 02:55 PM

If you sprinkle when you tinkle
Be a sweetie, wipe the seatie !

BleeckerSt_Girl

03-01-2007, 02:58 PM

Don't clog the sink or shower drains with your 2 foot long hairs.

And don't brush your hair over the sink and leave hairs wound all over it for the next person to enjoy.

Trek420

03-01-2007, 03:01 PM

To the gym employees:

I have only an hour to work out at lunch. That includes, changing clothes, getting around the shoes, towels others have strewn on the bench, getting to and from the gym AND getting back into our secure building.

Don't sell me. I just want to check in, stretch, max out my HRM, shower, dry and go back to work.

If I wanted to upgrade my membership....I'd ask ya' :cool:

carpaltunnel

03-01-2007, 03:08 PM

To the management:
When you get a good employee who doesn't walk past a pile of wet towels on the floor like they aren't there: DON"T overwork that poor person until she quits! Act like a manager and get those other drones on the payroll shaped up so the members get the clean locker room you advertise.

carpaltunnel

03-01-2007, 03:17 PM

The sign says "State law requires a shower with soap before entering."
STATE LAW, get it?
Oh, ok, since you're such a clean person,:rolleyes: we'll make an exception for you if you didn't do anything that starts with a "F" or a "P" since your last shower.

Bad JuJu

03-01-2007, 03:25 PM

If you have to look, at least do it subtly.
And if you don't want to be looked at, don't parade around nude like you're in your own bedroom.

Offthegrid

03-01-2007, 04:45 PM

BleeckerSt_Girl

03-01-2007, 04:49 PM

alforfun

03-01-2007, 05:06 PM

I think I am glad I got my own weight bench at home!!!

Kitsune06

03-01-2007, 05:19 PM

I'm quick and prudent about my changing, thank you. top then bottom, never both at the same time, always wrapped with a towel on the way into or out of the shower, thanks. I'm talking the people I catch *staring*... not always at me, either (not *that* popular... :p) but it's like "Yes, she has piercings/tattoos/is heavy/is thin/is built/is lithe- GET OVER IT!"

I need to go back to the Ritz. =(

mimitabby

03-01-2007, 05:58 PM

Wow, I'm starting to appreciate the fact that 95% of the people at my gym are men! Empty locker room, no perfume, no cell phones, empty locker room!

silver

03-01-2007, 06:24 PM

Don't talk on your cell phone while you stroll on the treadmill, and especially don't have 45 minute conversations and most especially don't do it while I'm running!

Don't incline the treadmill to the max and then walk hanging on to the control panel for dear life. It doesn't do anything for you and it's bad for the treadmill causing it to break down more often, meaning I can't use it while it's out of order.

Starfish

03-01-2007, 07:11 PM

I can't imagine the vast numbers of you I must have been offending all these years with a variety of my locker room behaviors.

Starfish

03-01-2007, 07:13 PM

And if you don't want to be looked at, don't parade around nude like you're in your own bedroom.

What's the difference between walking and parading?:confused:

Wahine

03-01-2007, 07:23 PM

Me too Starfish.

I don't talk on my cell and I leave it on silent mode.

I am very careful about my dripping, wet surfaces, dirt etc.

I don't primp and preen at all so - not guilty of taking up sink/dryer space.

Don't spread out my stuff.

Shower with soap.

Yup, I'm pretty good on most of the rules except the nekkid one.:eek: :eek:

Now I don't prance around, I don't chat with my friends but I do stand completely nekkid for a period of time at the end of my shower while toweling off and when transitioning from towel around body to getting ready to get dressed. I prefer to stand nekkid for a short period of time to allow for some air drying prior to donning my clothes. While in any one of my various stages of dress/undress I may have a consversation with someone. If someone chooses to talk to me while I'm about to drop my towel to air dry and get dressed, I am not going to stop my routine. I will continue along, nekkid or not, while chatting.

Going through PT school and having to stand in front of 66 classmates while they evaluate your posture pretty much killed any locker room modesty I had.

No I don't stand around chatting about how fat I am or not.

KnottedYet

03-01-2007, 07:36 PM

Man, I'm glad I can't afford to belong to a gym!:D

East Hill

03-02-2007, 02:46 AM

Man, I'm glad I can't afford to belong to a gym!:D

Word!

East Hill

Pax

03-02-2007, 04:14 AM

My gym membership is at the local University, I'm surrounded by hard-bodied 18-22 year old girls and a handful of faculty-aged folks like myself. Us 40+ folks are invisible to the younger ones so that's nice. ;)

My rule...only use ONE locker - don't take up one locker for your coat/one for your clothes/and one for your bag. I don't enjoy having to share one with my SO for everything we have so you can spread out. :mad:

alpinerabbit

03-02-2007, 04:27 AM

Don't use your cell phone while blocking one of two toilet stalls! Yes, we can hear you in there and we want you out!!!

SouthernBelle

03-02-2007, 05:10 AM

doc

03-02-2007, 05:16 AM

Don't incline the treadmill to the max and then walk hanging on to the control panel for dear life. It doesn't do anything for you and it's bad for the treadmill causing it to break down more often, meaning I can't use it while it's out of order.

I want to point and laugh out loud when I see that!

Anyone who wants to walk around naked, go right ahead, BUT do not complain if people are looking or even staring. After all, what did you expect? You're primping, walking, chatting, blowdrying, putting on makeup... in public - naked.

Me, I wear a towel except for a the moment while I fiddle with my bra strap, undies and the rest of my clothes. It's not a show, I'm just getting dressed. I'm not going to try to keep a towel on while also trying to pull a shirt over my head.

sulis

03-02-2007, 05:43 AM

My current pet peave-

Spin bikes - and other equipment and placement in classes - is first come first serve. Don't throw your towel or jacket over the bike to save it for your friend who is going to run in 10 minutes after the class starts. If someone is there before your friend, they deserve the bike/treadmill/step...whatever.
Don't save!!!!

Fortunately the end of the new years resolusionist period is coming closer and these people are starting to not frequent the gym as much. Just us hard cores left.

missymaya

03-02-2007, 05:51 AM

Please, dear lord, please flush the toilet after you used it. We're all potty trained here and know how to use this thing called a toilet that allows running water to take that stuff away. I dont want to see it and Im not your mommy, so Im not gonna flush unless there arent any toilets left and I really gotta go! If it's not working, go to management and tell them the problem.

Pax

03-02-2007, 06:13 AM

Just because you think your little darling is not old enough to go in the men's locker by himself, doesn't mean he's young enough to be in the women's locker room. If he's old enough to leer, he's out.

Excellent rule! I was drying after my shower one time and looked down to see a little male child watching me from under the stall, he was around six or so. I tore his mother a new one.

Kitsune06

03-02-2007, 06:28 AM

Grog

03-02-2007, 06:33 AM

Now I don't prance around, I don't chat with my friends but I do stand completely nekkid for a period of time at the end of my shower while toweling off and when transitioning from towel around body to getting ready to get dressed. I prefer to stand nekkid for a short period of time to allow for some air drying prior to donning my clothes. While in any one of my various stages of dress/undress I may have a consversation with someone. If someone chooses to talk to me while I'm about to drop my towel to air dry and get dressed, I am not going to stop my routine. I will continue along, nekkid or not, while chatting.

Me too.

The only locker room I "attend," the university pool's, has very few modest women around. And it's not just rock-hard 18-22 y-o's. (Although I did overhear a conversation about how fat a girl was once and it really got me concerned... I mean she was not rail thin either but she was so mean to herself it made me want to cry right there. End of self-hijack.) Lots of university employee and, I assume, faculty. Women don't feel like they must hide their body, whatever its shape, at all cost, especially the older ones actually. I've also become less concerned with modesty since I've been closer to 30. Yes there is even some naked (or half-naked) conversation going on. So what?

But don't get me started on those who left the toilet seat all wet (presumably from pool water, but still...).

roadie gal

03-02-2007, 07:16 AM

2+ on the male children staring. I was in the locker room one day and a woman had her @6 year old son in there. He was obviously VERY interested in all of the women. As she went out I overheard her say, "Let's go collect your dad and get going". Sheesh! If his dad was RIGHT THERE the kid needed to be with dad, not mom!

My other pet peeve is the people who leave all of their stuff all over the benches when they go work out. Our locker room has a zillion lockers and one bench. Shared space is at a premium. Just take 2 extra seconds and stuff it in a locker, OK?

I get really tired of inconsiderate people... sigh...

BleeckerSt_Girl

03-02-2007, 07:41 AM

What's the difference between walking and parading?:confused:

Baton twirl.

Kitsune06

03-02-2007, 08:12 AM

Only in the men's locker room. :rolleyes:

silver

03-02-2007, 09:10 AM

:eek: :eek:

chickwhorips

03-02-2007, 09:13 AM

there are people that do these things?
scary!!!

silver

03-02-2007, 09:13 AM

I have a question...... first off, our locker is not too crowded. When I go swim I leave a little pile of my shower things on the counter where people fix hair, do make-up. This way I don't have to go to my locker all dripping wet and leave a trail of water. It's always seemed like there was plenty of room there.....but maybe others are thinking that I'm being rude. Comments please! Rude or ok?

SouthernBelle

03-02-2007, 09:56 AM

Silver, without seeing your locker room it's hard to say. But I would suggest a drawstring net bag that you can tote along with you. Hand it on a hook if one is available.

Deanna

03-02-2007, 10:01 AM

Silver,

Maybe I'm being paranoid, but you also don't want people to think it's there for public use.

Trekhawk

03-02-2007, 10:28 AM

well at that age it's probably curiosity, too... I mean, kids don't have the inner voice of public restraint saying "Oh, as interesting as that person is, I really shouldn't stare". ...some ADULTS don't... but yah I know what you mean. :rolleyes: I wish they had somewhere else to take their kids.

Hey Kit love your new pic. Did you draw that yourself????

The part about kids reminds me of a day a women abused me at a shopping mall restroom for having my then four year old with me. I mean get over yourself the restrooms do have doors and there is no way in hell Im letting my four year old go to a men's restroom by himself. I do understand about the change rooms though.

Crankin

03-02-2007, 10:36 AM

My club has an area right where you come into the locker room that is called the family changing area. It is off to the right and sort of open. There are lockers in there. It is in both men and woman's locker rooms. This was added when they remodeled and people had complained loudly about older kids of opposite gender, staring. No boys over 3 years allowed in the woman's locker room.
I remember feeling weird when I let my kids go and shower in the locker room alone at one of the clubs I worked at, when they were like 10 and 7. But, we were going somewhere afterwards, couldn't go home to shower. They had been in there so long, I got concerned, so when the first man came out that I knew, it happened to be their school superintendent. I asked him to go back in and check on them. He said they were busy blowing their hair dry! Boy, were they pissed at me.

AllezGirl

03-02-2007, 10:58 AM

Wouldn't it be more productive to voice the need to management for family changing rooms, than to chew a new a**hole on the woman who is just trying to protect her child? Keep in mind that the emotional scars held by child that was assualted in a public changing room, restroom, etc. would run a lot deeper that the ones you may sustain because your goodies were checked out by a little kid.

Pax

03-02-2007, 11:02 AM

It seems that it would be more productive to voice the need to management regarding the need for family changing rooms than to chew a new a**hole on the woman who is just trying to protect her child. Keep in mind that the emotional scars held by child that was assualted in a public changing room, restroom, etc. would run a lot deeper that the ones you may sustain because your goodies were checked out by a little kid.

By the same token, a mother who brings a boy into the locker room should keep him close-by and use the experience as a teaching tool regarding appropriate behavior.

Kitsune06

03-02-2007, 11:14 AM

Keep in mind that the emotional scars held by child that was assualted in a public changing room, restroom, etc. would run a lot deeper that the ones you may sustain because your goodies were checked out by a little kid.

Absolutely. What we consider scolding can be really traumatic- this kid is having a total stranger raise her voice at him for just acting on his (or her!) natural curiosity.

By the same token, the nudist bath house/sauna I go to over the summer is very liberal that way... Kids certainly get an eyeful but after a while it loses a lot of its novelty after parents say "Well, that's what people look like without clothes on... we all look basically the same..."

And what actually really gets me is how open and understanding people can be. Year before last there was a girl there with a foot and a half spiked mohawk (pink, she was cute:) ) going to the nude sauna, had lots and lots of pierces- more than I do- and had a little boy, maybe 5 or 6 ask her about them. She was very straightforward and honest, not shy or taken aback. His mom was *mortified* that he asked, but very relieved at Mohawk's response.

HappyAnika

03-02-2007, 11:22 AM

Do not walk into the gym throw your stuff on a treadmill to reserve it, then disappear for 30 minutes.

Do not hang on equipment and/or weight benches you're not using while talking to someone for 30 minutes.

Do not sit on the bench while completely nekkid. The bench isn't clean, I don't think you are clean, and now I really don't want to even set my gym bag down on the bench on the outline of your bum. :eek:

Kitsune06

03-02-2007, 11:27 AM

...eww. why sit on the bench completely nekkid anyway? the bench is probably dirtier than their bum (statistically and bacteriologically speaking) but who *knows* what kinda creepies are lurking there?

AllezGirl

03-02-2007, 11:42 AM

Queen, I agree, but I remember trying to control a two year old while getting myself out of a wet swimsuit after "mommy and me" swim class and it was next to impossible. Luckily, by the time he was old enough for it to be an issue, the Y built family changing rooms.

The club I belong to now doesn't allow kids under 16 at all...

How about those lovely people who leave big gobs of sweat on the machines for the next user. :eek:

Veronica

03-02-2007, 12:11 PM

It's not the two year old boys, or even the four year olds. It's when they are 7 or 8. And yes its natural that they are curious... but go look at your mom, not me please!

V.

annie

03-02-2007, 12:19 PM

Whoa, after reading this thread, I am glad I did not re-join my gym! ;) I agree with most of the comments, but here's one more that I haven't seen yet. When you are there to workout, you don't necessarily have time to dawdle! What about friends/aquaintances you see who want to do nothing but chat?! That used to drive me crazy. I would try and be polite, but yikes! Are you there to socialize or to get a workout?

Annie

SouthernBelle

03-02-2007, 03:49 PM

Yep. My experience was with boys WAY too old to be in there, 8-10.

Mr. Bloom

03-02-2007, 05:22 PM

If you sprinkle when you tinkle
Be a sweetie, wipe the seatie !

I thought this was a man problem:eek: :eek: :eek:

Trek420

03-02-2007, 05:55 PM

I thought this was a man problem:eek: :eek: :eek:

sad to say, no :mad:

another rule; if your quads are to weak to "hover' over the seat do some reps on the leg press but sit the &*^% down if you can't aim.

Starfish

03-02-2007, 07:10 PM

Baton twirl.

Fortunately, I don't have one, so I guess I'm just walking! ;)

carpaltunnel

03-02-2007, 07:41 PM

I thought this was a man problem:eek: :eek: :eek:

And you never know if it's residue from "hovering", or swimming pool bum prints.
:confused:

mimitabby

03-02-2007, 08:03 PM

I hate to be the one to take it out of the locker room and into the gym
but what about these guys that groan and groan during and after lifting weights.
I had a groaner on each side of me (three benchs in a row, I was in the middle) both guys were fit looking and both had 35+ pounds of barbells in each hand
(you know, when they put them down the earth shakes) But they kept groaning LOUD.. what's up with that? if it's too hard, lift lighter weights!!!

BleeckerSt_Girl

03-03-2007, 01:52 AM

lph

03-03-2007, 03:21 AM

I have a small boy - not so small anymore - and had to go through just this situation: what do you do when you want to go swimming at the indoor pool with your kid, but he's small enough to get seriously worried about going into the mens locker room alone (he was afraid he'd get lost in there :p ), but big enough that he might offend somebody.

He was about 6 or 7 and pretty clueless about nudity and gawping actually, but especially other girls his age were getting shy.

We solved it this way: I sent him into the mens locker room, reminded him to shower, and promised I'd go straight through and be waiting at the pool door the whole time in case he needed me. He could just crack the door open and ask.

FIVE minutes later, max, a worried, soaking wet small boy came out through the pool door, carrying ALL his stuff. And without a stitch on :D

Luckily I was there to hustle him back in so he could put on his bathing shorts before he even noticed what he'd done wrong...

Mr. Bloom

03-03-2007, 04:39 AM

And you never know if it's residue from "hovering", or swimming pool bum prints.
:confused:

Well, I guess that there is "potty parity" in the locker room. I though men were the most disgusting...ladies, you've popped my bubble!!!:)

Starfish

03-03-2007, 11:17 AM

Well, I guess that there is "potty parity" in the locker room. I though men were the most disgusting...ladies, you've popped my bubble!!!:)

Having worked as a commercial janitor in many types of public and private locations, I can say that when it comes to toilets and urinals, men take the cake (uh, maybe the urinal cake? :p ) for grossness. When it comes to the counter and sink areas, women take it, hands down. Just my experience.

freshwater_pr0n

03-03-2007, 10:34 PM

Just smell ok, ok? I know that we all *leave* the gym smelling like we've had a good workout, but that doesn't mean that we're not going to notice that you haven't showered in a week.

carpaltunnel

03-04-2007, 06:28 PM

[QUOTE=lph;176356]I have a small boy - not so small anymore - ...(he was afraid he'd get lost in there :p ), ...FIVE minutes later, max, a worried, soaking wet small boy came out through the pool door, carrying ALL his stuff. And without a stitch on :D
QUOTE]

Oho, you ,made my day and brought back memories of my little guys, who are now older than I am! :( Thanks!

mtbdarby

03-06-2007, 09:26 AM

Alright, you gals are freaking me out about swimming lessions with my 4yo son. At least all the moms with kids were cool about everyone being in some sort of undress. I think the most uncomfortable one was the high school teachers aid that was changing in the middle of all of us:p
My son pointing to the other boy: "you're nekkid"
other boy: "you're nekkid too"
my kid: "you have a weiner"
other kid" "you have a weiner too"

I almost felt sorry for the hs girl:p But all I could think about after gently reminding my son that it wasn't polite to make comments about other peoples bodies, was how far I've come being comfortable in my own skin, that bike tours and communal showers seemed like a rite of passage, and I hoped this sweet young girl would one day be as comfortable in her own skin, in a full locker room with small children of both sexes grinning like me:D

FWIW, as a single mom, my son may be 8 before I let him go in the mens locker room alone. I'm terribly protective when it comes to safety. So no chewing me a new anything, ok?? There aren't family changing rooms here.

carpaltunnel

07-11-2008, 07:19 PM

CNN Story - Jerks at the gym
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/07/11/lw.gym.jerks/index.html

The comments are pretty much in line with this thread.:D

singletrackmind

07-12-2008, 04:28 AM

Do not dry your other hair.
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Whawhawhat?!?!?

alpinerabbit

07-12-2008, 07:34 AM

My son pointing to the other boy: "you're nekkid"
other boy: "you're nekkid too"

That happened to me (substitute me for the other boy's reply). Who cares. He sees his mom nekkid. It's ok.

When it comes to the counter and sink areas, women take it, hands down.
Maybe men just don't wash hands.

singletrackmind

07-12-2008, 07:47 AM

FWIW, as a single mom, my son may be 8 before I let him go in the mens locker room alone. I'm terribly protective when it comes to safety. So no chewing me a new anything, ok?? There aren't family changing rooms here.

As a not single mom I will be doing the same. Luckily the women's changing area has stalls at the one pool and the other has a family room. We won't be joining the Y as they don't allow opposite sex children to accompany from 5 and up.

That said, he goes to the nursery at the gym, not the lockers.

Dogmama

07-13-2008, 03:42 AM

Yup - a co-worker used to work out at the University recreation center in the morning. She was VERY pregnant with twins. She said being naked in the locker room was a powerful form of birth control for the other girls. :D:D:D:D

BlueVet11

07-14-2008, 07:08 AM

How about not staring down my treadmill and watching the clock on it when there is a 35 min limit and I've only been on it for 15 min. Also, there are 3 other treadmills open, just cause you like this one too doesn't mean you can be in my bubble staring at the screen, huffing anf puffing and making comments about how you'll just *have* to wait for this one. Yep, you will have to wait... over there. This treadmill works with my HR monitor and I'm not walking and chatting on my cell and reading a magazine. I am running hard. Go away.

Irulan

07-14-2008, 07:15 AM

Yep. My experience was with boys WAY too old to be in there, 8-10.

I send my sons into the men's dressing room at that age. At some point I asked a dad-like type to go see what the monkeys were doing, and yes, they were having water fights and swinging off the plumbing in there. I can only hope some parental type told them to knock it off

Irulan

07-14-2008, 07:26 AM

Whatever happened to teaching your kids not to let strangers talk to them or touch them? At some point moms have to stop hovering and empower their kids. My kids were out of the ladies locker room at age 5 or so, and jeez I was only in the room next door. Granted, they were total mayhem in the mens locker room with water fights and so on, but that's the exchange. A kid that is well indoctrinated in "don't talk to strangers" , especially a younger one, will come running back to you pretty quickly especially if you are right next door.

Most pervs want to get kids off in private, not assault them in a public dressing room.

PscyclePath

07-14-2008, 09:05 AM

Crankin

07-14-2008, 10:08 AM

I let my boys go into the men's locker room together when they were 8 and 10, maybe 7 and 9. Since I used to let them swim after I taught an aerobics class, this would be their reward for having to stay in the child care room. One time, they were taking a very long time in there, when the superintendent of our school system came out. I asked him to go back in there and find out what the heck they were doing! He reported back that Scott was blow drying his hair and I shouldn't worry. They were really mad at me for having the school superintendent check up on them, but they lived.
I remember feeling very uncomfortable when I was pregnant, in the locker room, with little boys staring.

BlueVet11

07-14-2008, 11:45 AM

Makes me glad I've never been much of a gym rat... While I used them faithfully back in my Army days, it was pretty much a place to do my push-ups and sit-ups out of the rain.

I'm no fan of treadmills at all. Running or riding, rain or shine, give me an open road, and I'm happy...

I really hate them too... but that particular day was a scorcher here in GA and I needed to get a run in... I woke up too late to do it in the am and no time for an evening run. So I was already aggrevated to begin with! That guy was a total jerk about the treadmill. I should have run for an hour just to tick him off ;)

Tuckervill

07-15-2008, 06:03 AM

I have three sons. I am not above walking into a men's room or locker room to retrieve them. I have many times stood at the door with the door open, but just out of line of sight, and called to them. When I get no reply, I go in, with a loud warning "female, coming in!" Most times when I've done this, any man in the room would speak up, or the kids would holler or come out, or I would ask the guy coming out if he saw any kids.

I've never had to check every stall for my kid, but I'd do it if I thought it was necessary. A man can complain if he wants, but I don't care.

Men do expose themselves on purpose to kids in pubic men's rooms. It has happened to two of my kids. The only reason I know about this is because my kids knew it was wrong and told me about it. Both times, they told me in the car later, or I would have jerked a not in his thing if I had known who he was.

Karen

Irulan

07-15-2008, 06:13 AM

Men do expose themselves on purpose to kids in pubic men's rooms. It has happened to two of my kids. The only reason I know about this is because my kids knew it was wrong and told me about it. Both times, they told me in the car later, or I would have jerked a not in his thing if I had known who he was.

Karen

]Ok, I stand corrected, it never happened to my sons, that they said, and I assume they would based on other situtations. Awesome that your kids told you. Too bad you couldn't report it. I will stand by that teaching your kids to talk about these things is a good thing, and hovering and protecting them is not.

shootingstar

07-15-2008, 07:02 PM

So far in life, I've do sports activity outdoors....it is rare I use indoor facilities except for whirlpool..and we have them in our building. Yea, I know....

Or I do my simple stretching/yoga/pilates exercises at home.

I'm the sort of person that dresses efficiently when I'm in a communal locker room anyway. Not the sort of person that yaks alot while naked.

Never forget the time when a bunch of women (all in early 20's) peeled off their dirty snowgear in change room at a fancy hotel whirlpool..and left puddles of melted snow, dirt about change room.

Duck on Wheels

07-16-2008, 04:14 AM

Hmmm. Lots to think about here. No, I don't sit bare@ssed on the bench. I make sure the toilet has flushed completely. I'm pretty skilled at using a big towel or roomy t-shirt to cover up while dressing. I deff'nitely don't parade around nekkid! (Pretty shy about nudity now I have an ostomy.) In fact, gym is near home -- one steepish hill climb, over the ridge, then down the other side -- so I generally just pull on a windbreaker over my sweaty gym clothes and shower at home. But as for kids ... You gals should experience the dressing room at the big swim center just over the border north of here. I.e. Sweden. I.e. unisex dressing room, with unisex sauna at one end. So here you are getting into your swimsuit and some nekkid guy wanders by the ends of all the locker rows headed for the sauna :eek:

Pax

07-16-2008, 05:20 AM

...So here you are getting into your swimsuit and some nekkid guy wanders by the ends of all the locker rows headed for the sauna :eek:
Oh HELL NO! :eek::eek::eek:

katluvr

07-16-2008, 12:25 PM

Do not dry your hair nekkid. Do not dry your other hair. Do not talk on the cell phone while nekkid. Do not talk to me while nekkid. Do not talk to your three friends, all of you while nekkid. Do not watch TV while nekkid. Do not read the newspaper while nekkid. Do not fill your water bottle while nekkid.

Don't repeat over and over to your friends how fat you are. There's not an ounce of fat on your body.

Wear more deoderant, less perfume.

OMG...I just found this thread. :D:D:D
A few weeks ago I was at my gym (small independent gym) in the locker room (very small) getting ready. Usually I am in there alone...but this gal came in--undressed all the way except for thong--and she did a LOT of parading around. And yes came over (only in thong) to wash face a sink next to me. Just don't understand the parading half dressed or nekkid. I must be modest! I dress in the shower stall behind the curtain after I shower. I know I am afraid of seeing my butt in the mirror nor do I want to frighten anyone else to death! (or cause permenant blindness!):o

carpaltunnel

07-16-2008, 05:23 PM

katluvr, me too! It took me forever to change in the locker area, and I changerealfast, so no one sees me.

Unlike the lady who walks through stark naked to the sink area, puts her foot on the sink (big row of sinks with long mirror above them) for some reason puts lotion on her feet there. Now when I see her I turn my back right away before it starts...:(

dex

07-16-2008, 05:47 PM

Interesting. I guess nekkidness doesn't really bother me. I mean, I see naked women in the locker room all the time, I just don't pay any attention to it because it seems normal in the context of a locker room--I'm sure I'd have a hard time not noticing if someone was naked in, say, the weight room. I always assumed no one really paid much attention to my brief naked locker room times either. *shrug*

Maybe I just spent too much time at summer camp as a kid, where the girls who were most conspicuous were the ones getting dressed inside of their sleeping bags or carefully covering themselves while trying to negotiate the communal showers.

My locker room pet peeve is the person who insists on using every available square inch of bench or counter space.

My weight room pet peeve is the guy who has to have five sets of dumbbells out of the racks and spread out around three different benches, while he mostly takes breaks to talk to random people about their training plans and what supplements they're taking...and then glares and acts put out if you ask to work in on one of the benches or sets of dumbbells. *That* guy is a tool.

And my pool pet peeve is the group of 50-something year old men who insist on sitting on the steps into/out of the pool while talking to each other and watching people swim.

carpaltunnel

07-16-2008, 05:56 PM

lph

07-16-2008, 11:59 PM

And my pool pet peeve is the group of 50-something year old men who insist on sitting on the steps into/out of the pool while talking to each other and watching people swim.

Oh lord yes. I'm hardly a dedicated swimmer, but when I get into the pool on the "swimmer side" of the rope, and put on goggles and a nose clip, I'm there to swim, darn it. Not to stop every time I get to the shallow end because Joe and his buddies are standing there chatting 3 in a row so I can't turn. :mad:

If you want to chat - get OUT of the water, or go to the kiddie side.

And what's with the beefy weightlifter guy at work who lifts weights heavier than me in the gym room, and then leaves them all over the floor? Does he really think the tiny little woman who washes the floor is capable of even budging them?

Bron

07-17-2008, 03:09 AM

This is Germany, so I think walking round in the nude is compulsory, or at least that's how it sometimes seems:eek:

However, I really think that people shaving their legs in the communal shower is icky. Really, can't that be done at home?

Dogmama

07-17-2008, 05:12 AM

Or the guy who uses the free weights right in front of the rack so you can't get to it...or the guy who grunts and screams while he's lifting...or the guy who walks off leaving massive weights on the squat frame....

The screamers & grunters - sounds like a delivery room. I especially like the skinny kids doing bicep curls with 15 pound weights yelling their heads off. At Ballys, I figure it's a mating call.

Pax

07-17-2008, 05:45 AM

The screamers & grunters - sounds like a delivery room. I especially like the skinny kids doing bicep curls with 15 pound weights yelling their heads off. At Ballys, I figure it's a mating call.
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mimitabby

07-17-2008, 06:41 AM

sundial

07-17-2008, 07:46 AM

Kindly remove the 800 lbs of weight from the leg press when you're through. Or from any machine for that matter. And don't hover over me when I'm benchpressing. Go flex those biceps and make a smoothie.

BlueVet11

07-17-2008, 07:51 AM

Or the guy who uses the free weights right in front of the rack so you can't get to it...or the guy who grunts and screams while he's lifting...or the guy who walks off leaving massive weights on the squat frame....

Or the skinny little nippet at the university gym standing in front of the weight rack gossiping "omg no he didn't!" for 20 min and when you go to pick up the last set of weights her friend slaps her in the arm and tells her to "grab the weights quick!" glare at you and then continue on with the "yeah, he totally did" conversation for another 15 min before putting the weights down (without using them) and stand by the elliptical machines.

Pax

07-17-2008, 08:00 AM

Or the skinny little nippet at the university gym standing in front of the weight rack gossiping "omg no he didn't!" for 20 min and when you go to pick up the last set of weights her friend slaps her in the arm and tells her to "grab the weights quick!" glare at you and then continue on with the "yeah, he totally did" conversation for another 15 min before putting the weights down (without using them) and stand by the elliptical machines.
Yet another reason I dropped my membership to the campus gym. :rolleyes: