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Bare bum in dressing room , AIBU.

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pinkboa · 26/11/2019 22:57

I take DS to swimming. I got the times wrong turned up for the wrong lesson. I decide to go back to the changing room to wait. I find it hard to breath in the pool area, 30 minutes is ok, an hour and I can feel my asthma begin to act up.

There is a dad there getting his daughters dressed (fine) he was in the pool and he's down to his underwear.

Another dad arrives with his son, him and my DS are in the same lesson.

Anyways dad of daughters decides to get dressed... he drops his pants and is stark naked in front of his daughters. He is also by the door so if another parent was coming in their child would have walked into his penis! And it wasn't less than a minute because he was drying himself as well 🤢...

There are cubicles. He could have used a towel as well.

Why would and adult choose to get naked in a dressing room at a swim lesson for children with strangers around.

AIBU to find it bizarre?

His bum was also hairy and unattractive 🤢.

OP posts:
Oulu · 07/02/2020 11:03

If I brought a daughter round the corner and walked into seeing someone’s dick then you can bet I’d be complaining/ reporting to police.

If you bought your daughter into a man's changing room and complained to the police about seeing naked men in there, it's you who would be arrested for wasting police time.

Streamside · 07/02/2020 10:46

What's really worrying is when a naked man uses the hairdryer to blow dry himself.At a time there were a lot of migrant workers in our area and this was quite common. They were given towels by a local charity shop and the problem was solved.My colleague still has us in stitches about taking her children past the young naked man with his foot up on the bench drying his bits.

iklboo · 07/02/2020 10:42

Yanbu. It’s illegal. If I brought a daughter round the corner and walked into seeing someone’s dick then you can bet I’d be complaining/ reporting to police.

It's really NOT illegal for a man to have his bare bottom on show IN THE MEN'S CHANGING ROOM.

SerendipityJane · 07/02/2020 10:36

Mycatwontstopstaring

You've not quite read this thread have you ?

Mycatwontstopstaring · 07/02/2020 10:34

Yanbu. It’s illegal. If I brought a daughter round the corner and walked into seeing someone’s dick then you can bet I’d be complaining/ reporting to police.

If it’s a unisex changing area then he should keep his bits covered under towel or use the cubicle.

It’s irrelevant what they do in a Germany/Sweden etc, just as it’s irrelevant what the public indecency laws are in Saudi and Iran.

SerendipityJane · 07/02/2020 10:23

This thread was one of my favourites last year. No idea how it's popped back up, but am very pleased to see it.

(raises hand)

guilty ... I posted a link in the ongoing thread where a lady was described how another mother was in the male changing room to change her 10 yo son. Mainly to demonstrate that there really are some odd takes on life out there.

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 07/02/2020 10:11

This thread was one of my favourites last year. No idea how it's popped back up, but am very pleased to see it.

Swatsup · 07/02/2020 10:04

Maybe he would normally leave his children there and go to the cubicle to get changed himself but felt uncomfortable doing so with you watching them?

Swatsup · 07/02/2020 10:01

He was using a changing room as a changing room. I would have been more concerned about the person sat in the changing room for half an hour watching people get changed.

LolaLollypop · 07/02/2020 09:56

Haven't read all 34 pages but just wanted to say this is the funniest post I've ever read on MN Grin

1forsorrow · 07/02/2020 09:45

Logfootlightoe that is so true. Sitting there for an hour watching people getting changed. I can see the police being called no problem. The comments about his bum would indicate she was having a good look.

RockinHippy · 07/02/2020 09:32

Oh FFS, stop sexualising the non sexual, that is YOUR issue. The poor bloke was getting changed with his DC, not waving his willy helicopter style in your face Biscuit

Logfootlightoe · 07/02/2020 09:31

The only odd thing I would find about this situ is an adult sitting in a changing room, not changing or changing a kid, watching other people.
If a bloke did this the police would be called!

JRUIN · 07/02/2020 09:28

You sat in a communal changing room for a whole hour??? Surely there was somewhere better for you to wait? Your DS must have been bored shitless. Did you not feel like a weirdo hanging around the changing room for so long? Didn't you worry you would make people feel uncomfortable? Would a man getting naked in the changing room been less offensive to you if his bum had been smooth and pert? Why did you get your times mixed up anyway, was it your first time? It doesn't read as such. One more question would a man getting naked in the changing room been less offensive to you if his bum had been smooth and pert?

Tomatogravy · 07/02/2020 09:18

Why you’d go into the men’s then complain about seeing a mans bum.. you don’t go in the men’s unless you are a man. Your child goes in your gender appropriate changing room until they get changed alone! He was probably fuming with you 😂😂

Oulu · 07/02/2020 09:09

Frankly as a woman, with a son why can't I take him to the Male changing room? confused...

At the operative time, you weren't taking him - your son had already been changed and you were just sitting there.

I still find it unfathomable that you would think it appropriate to take a two year old in nappies into the men's changing room anyway. As for being enraged at people getting naked, the clue's in the term "changing room": it's for people to change in. If you don't want your child to see naked people, it's for you to take your child into a cubicle, not the other way round.

honeyloops · 07/02/2020 08:49

It's a changing room. Where people get changed. YABU.

Leflic · 07/02/2020 08:22

The Op was upset that he was naked in front of children ( not his).

I think her son will have to get used to strangers willies as men use urinals where you are expected to get your penis out. Adult strangers naked bodies are acceptable in changing rooms and rugby clubs.

BumbleBree · 07/02/2020 05:44

Imagine if a guy was sitting chilling in the women’s changing room and HE was put out about a bush on display because he was there first! Grin and then had the cheek to imply that she was a bit shady getting naked in the changing room while he was in it! Can you imagine the uproar! Thank you for this thread OP!

grisen · 07/02/2020 02:55

Okay I know you don’t care about the cultural norma of us foreigners. But in Scandinavia (at least where I am from) we shower naked in communal showers And get dressed in communal rooms, all single sex though (yes transgenders get to choose which one they pick) but if a woman would walk into the men’s changing room and just sit down all hell would break lose.

I believe past the age of 8 everyone is expected to go through the correct changing room on their own. Before that a mum would take her kids in the female changing rooms and a dad in the male ones.

Seriously shocked you’d chill in the male changing room. At least go outside.

OneHanded · 07/02/2020 01:45

You were in the men’s ffs plenty of tits and fuzzy triangles out in the ladies. YABU.

Nippybutsweet · 07/02/2020 01:42

Do you think it's pissible that your very presence could, maybe, I dunno.... have made any of the men or young boys uncomfortable? If I had a young son using the changing facilities and he told me a woman was hanging around in there I would have probably dragged you out by tge hair and asked questions later demanded management called the police.

CameronG · 07/02/2020 01:05

I don’t know how it came to be that this thread was resurrected. But I am happy about it.

BlokeTarget · 07/02/2020 00:26

Do you by any chance spend your friday nights standing next to the urinals in the gents', complaining that you are being flashed all the time and that none of the penises you saw were very big?

And Making sure they have perfectly waxed arses so as not to offend your aversion for body hair on men ?
Grin

TriangularRatbag · 09/12/2019 12:07

Do you by any chance spend your friday nights standing next to the urinals in the gents', complaining that you are being flashed all the time and that none of the penises you saw were very big?

GrinGrin