to get mildly annoyed with people who hog private changing rooms?

[MardyBra]

I hate communal changing rooms with a passion. I'm just too fat not comfortable with getting my kit off in public.

I swim regularly and there are some private cubicles with doors, but mainly communal changing. AIBU to get mildly annoyed when

a) people spread their kit out in a private cubicle and then bugger off.

b) get changed in a private cubicle with the door open whilst chatting to their mates.

Just interested really.

yanbu. They are both very inconsiderate things to do.

I think mild annoyance is ok

Where are the people going when they leave their kit and bugger off? I'd be tempted to gather it up and put it in a corner or in the lost property box if i was feeling really mean if they were away for more than a minute or so....

I'd move the clothes in scenario a). I'd be exceedingly careful not to drop them on the wet floor as it did it.

The kit was spread out Dawn, so I couldn't just lift up a bag and move it, it would mean repacking their bag.

The "mild" annoyance is stop you all flaming me with my first world problem

Yanbu. I would find it so cheeky I'd say 'Can you move your stuff out so I can get changed, thanks.' bold as brass.

Fuck off hogger.

Hah! I read the title and thought "This is a seasoned MNer!"

But they weren't there to ask pictish.

I wouldn't bother repacking. Just gather it up in a big messy bundle and dump it somewhere. 'Saving' changing rooms in not on....tis an unwritten rule, i'd say.

If there were any attendants about ahahahaha you could collar one of them and get them to shift it.

I'd repack the belongings and hand them in to reception as lost property.

But then, I can be a bit of a bitch about these things

I don't mind communal changing rooms though.

I'd just have scooped up the belongings and dumped them in the communal area and hoped they returned whilst I was changing so that I could tell them off to their face .

OK so I'm being a wimp.

What about scenario b?

a) YANBU
b) YABU

I hog private changing rooms. I wouldn't do either of the things you mentioned, but I do spend a fairly long time in them by the time I've body lotioned, then brushed my hair to give the lotion time to sink in before putting clothes on.

But then I figure I have as much right to be in them as anyone else, and it doesn't bother me if they are full.

At my local pool, the staff move unattended kit in changing rooms. I must admit, I would struggle to do it myself. I know that I would pick the person who had just taken their toddler for an urgent pee/had gone back to the locker for their other shoe/was standing behind me....

Scenario b is less annoying because at least they are actually IN the damn cubicle. It's more a case of tough luck.

But those who lay claim to a cubicle with their stuff, even though they're not actually in it, need to be killed.

If there are no empty cubicles left I just get changed in one with people's clothes in it. Shove all the clothes over into a heap in the corner of the bench. They can knock if they want it. No way am I getting changed in toilet cubicles when there is a tons of empty changing rooms full of entitled peoples stuff.
No one has knocked so far.

I actually hate it even more when one person uses a big cubicle so I end up trying to change me and 1-3 dc in a single one. Or someone with one 6 year old uses the one with the fold down changing table and not the other big one without so I then have to change a baby on the bench/floor. Although this hasn't actually happened for years, I am getting annoyed just thinking about it.

Sorry I got you so wound up nora.

I forgive you. But only 'cause it's you.... I am generally wound up at the moment anyway....

This is a bit of a tangent to the aibu but I was very amused that there was a woman getting changed with her leg up Les Dennis style (in Extras) recently.

Hope you're ok nora?

This was happening at swimming lessons, I would get there at the crack of dawn and all the changing rooms were empty and all of the first class would hang their kit on pegs or put it in lockers. Then when my kids got out the pool the second class would get in, they would have left their clothes on the changing room cubicle benchs .

One week when I hadnt had my coffee I went back to the changing room a few seonds early and carefully moved someones stuff out of the cubicle so I could change kids in there!

Of course by the time they were out the pool I had long gone home!!