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Was I wrong to whip my top off in the carpark?

73 replies

Bestseller · 23/09/2018 11:07

I'd been for a very wet run in the rain. When I got back to the car, (at a park/beauty spot) I stood by the boot, back to the public, whipped of my wet top and put a dry sweatshirt on. Not as quick as I could have been maybe as cold wet fingers weren't working properly but a few seconds.

Fwiw, Underneath, I was wearing a very robust M&S sports bra and I don't have much to see anyway!

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wrenika · 23/09/2018 12:21

People run in the sports bras alone...I don't see what the harm in changing your top was!

Tomorrowillbeachicken · 23/09/2018 12:22

Can’t see the issue. But then again men run around with no tops on.

Looneytune253 · 23/09/2018 12:25

Don’t some people wear only sports bras for running/working out? Can’t see the difference and I will often wander around the house with sports bra on when I’m getting ready

Sirzy · 23/09/2018 12:26

I have done it.

As has my partner (he doesn’t wear a sports bra though!) - I wonder if the man in question would have had as much of an issue with him doing it?

Tomorrowillbeachicken · 23/09/2018 12:29

I bet he’d look delightful in a sports bra though sirzy

TSSDNCOP · 23/09/2018 12:30

If a stranger told me off for that he’d have got a robust fuck off and a jaunty v flick.

Really give him something to get his Y fronts in a twist over.

madeoficecream · 23/09/2018 12:30

YANBU that was just obviously an unhinged busybody nutjob... if it wasnt that it would be something else he was ranting about, thats what those people are like!!!

RightOnTheEdge · 23/09/2018 12:33

CantankerousCamel you just made actually LOL! Grin

BishopstonFaffing · 23/09/2018 12:34

I would have mooned him.

LanguidLobster · 23/09/2018 12:35

From what you said it sounds fine and not flasherish in the slightest.

Ranters - they get everywhere!

Maybe he thought you looked too sexy in your sports bra

Mummyoflittledragon · 23/09/2018 12:35

Some men walk down the street in town with no top on in the hot weather. Bet he wouldn’t have glanced for a second were you a man. Even if he had, he would have kept his thoughts to himself, in case the man posed a physical threat. What did he think was going to happen, you give a 12 yo boy a boner? Or the 10 yo sister would Copy you? Or perhaps their dad would have copped off with you? Pass the smelling salts. Prick.

GreenMeerkat · 23/09/2018 12:38

Hell of a lot more coverage than a bikini which is acceptable to wear out in public.

Miserable old git. YANBU!

Fairylea · 23/09/2018 12:42

How ridiculous. I wouldn’t have batted an eyelid!

Gileswithachainsaw · 23/09/2018 12:45

Those crop tops/sports bras are used for running anyway aren't they? Without a top on over it?

Don't see a problem. A man would do that no problem. They also pee in public all the time. Men walk about in town in public no one says a word. But sone How you are offensive cos you changed your tip whilst breasts fully covered... nah. Piss off

adviceonthepox · 23/09/2018 12:48

It was fine. Wouldn't have bothered me even if I had seen you and had my children with me. I have teen boys they probably would have been embarrassed because they are teen boys. I would probably have teased them Blushbut it's silly how we all are about things like this but don't bat an eyelid at skimpy bikinis at the beach. Sometimes I wonder if people have any common sense at all.

369thegoosedrankwine · 23/09/2018 12:51

Completely fine. Just ignore the dickhead.

I'm away with dh at the min and we've been for a swim in the sea every morning early on. There's an old man who's been swimming here every morning too...he whips it all out and changes on the beach from wet to dry. Sitting on a towel and fairly discreetly. The swimmers amongst us don't bat a eyelid. We've named talkywacker Joe 😂

PrimalLass · 23/09/2018 12:56

No different from being in a bikini

ApolloandDaphne · 23/09/2018 13:00

He has obviously never watched the athletics on TV. The females seem to run in what look to me like their bra and pants. There are even children in the audience and no-one seems offended.

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 23/09/2018 13:04

Discretely changing a top is fine. He may have had a point if you'd taken bra off but I really can't understand his problem.

LimitIsUp · 23/09/2018 13:12

I bet man in question has a furtive porn habit and can't help seeing any bare female flesh as titillating.

SandAndSea · 23/09/2018 13:17

It's fine. You did nothing wrong.

Starstruck2020 · 23/09/2018 13:18

Aussie surfers in a beach car park do a great towel change. Why should you be any different. Stupid man

MaisyPops · 23/09/2018 13:18

AssassinatedBeauty
I agree!
Clearly has issues with women or an inflated sense of my penis makes me better than you.

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