If I Could Write The Locker Room Rules...

**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...

) 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

Originally Posted by Bad JuJu

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?

**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.

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!

**East Hill** · 03-02-2007, 02:46 AM

Originally Posted by KnottedYet

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

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.

**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

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.

**doc** · 03-02-2007, 05:16 AM

Originally Posted by silver

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.

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