If I Could Write The Locker Room Rules...

[Tuckervill]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Pax]

...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

Oh HELL NO!

[katluvr]

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.
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!)

[carpaltunnel]

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]

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]

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....

[lph]

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.

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]

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

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

[Dogmama]

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]

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.

BWAAAAHAAAAAAA!!!

[mimitabby]

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.

yes, yes, yes!

[sundial]

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.