I abandoned my pants. Am I being unreasonable??

[BeanCalledPickle]

So I'm in the gym. I'm on the treadmill. And I'm ten weeks pregnant. Because of this I am wearing jogging bottoms instead of my usual Lycra as excessive eating in the last ten weeks has meant the acquisition of excessive lard. I'm running along. I feel something dislodge. This isn't good. It works it's way down my leg. And flies out at speed! Clearly the last time I pulled these off I did so with pants and chucked it all in the wash. I have evidently not retrieved pants from leg prior to gym session.

AND NOW THEY ARE LYING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GYM FLOOR.

I should add that I have on other pants, just for the avoidance of doubt.

So, what would you have done? By the time I had stopped the treadmill two people were kind of looking. I was trying not to attract further attention to myself. A small group are now laughing. I'm trying to ignore. BUT MY PANTS WERE LYING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR.

Was it unreasonable to abandon my pants???

Deny all knowledge (assuming they aren't an exceptionally expensive pair).

Sorry op this made me . I think you need to pick it up though.

Unless you have a name tag sewn into the liberated knickers, I would join the others in looking confused!

As above - assuming they were just regular M&S knickers then I would walk away, maybe tut at them a bit.

I don't think they are good ones. Someone has just said loudly 'how would you not know your underwear had fallen off??!?

That's funny!!

Deny everything.

Ignore!

You should have definitely said "That's WEIRD! What are those PANTS doing there?!" in a desperate voice whilst emitting a strangled laugh.

Or picked them up and said loudly "Oh dear, someone has forgotten these PANTS! I'm going to do the right thing and find the lost property box. You're welcome, everybody".

No one would have suspected then. Don't ever leave these things to chance.

Never mind, you'll handle the situation better next time.

Ignore them and join in with the confusion.

Take this to your grave.

Hoik up the pants you're wearing so that they're visible and eye up everyone else suspiciously.

Have to say, on the bright side, this is basically the only way the hot personal trainer was ever going to get anywhere near my pants glosses over fact am pregnant and shouldn't be having fantasies about Luke the personal trainer

Ooh, never mind the pants, tell us more about Luke! avoiding bath time

This is hilarious but I fear there is no standard etiquette for the accidental propulsion of pants into the middle of the gym. I would go with sootgremlin's bold and brazen solution and hope that no-one thinks that the lady doth protest too much....

making my first Classics nomination.

If I'm honest they're probably thinking 'can't believe she lost her pants and left them there'. They know. Did you stay in the gym for long?

You know you need to find another gym, right?

But if we're sharing our gym-based humiliations, I once fell off a moving treadmill (skinned my leg, ouch!)

Pretended I'd passed out.

Luke is a hot kiwi. He's got a girlfriend and is returning to NZ soon. Last night I dreamt he chased me round the gym begging me for one kiss before he left. This is normal in pregnancy yes? He has blue eyes that pierce through your very soul.... totally distracted from pant situation now

If they're maternity knickers, you're sprung!

So you have on pants. The ones in the middle of the floor are clean, because they've been through the wash in the leg of the jogging bottoms.

Deny all knowledge. Be prepared to show the top of your waist band as proof that they can't be yours, as you're wearing yours, if anyone is disbelieving.

Hope like hell none of them are MNers...

This happened to me at the age of 14 in the school dance hall. There were boys there too! Oh the shame. Naturally, I denied it was me but one girl seemed suspicious. She tried to add me to facebook a few years ago but I declined her request as I was still ashamed. In short, you'll never get over this!!!

**dance hall as in "the gymnasium" and we had obv just got into our PE kit.

Completely ignore the pants. I might even go as far as to say its really disgusting what some people leave behind and walk off hoiking your not so judgey pants (no one in rl will notice)

A long, long time ago, hanging up some laundry on our balcony, a pair of my least sexy, plain cotton granny gym pants got blown away onto our very hot neighbour's who I fancied the metaphorical pants off balcony below.

I bemoaned my bad luck that it had to be my ugliest underwear that had landed outside his door. My quick thinking flat mate marched out onto balcony, plucked the sexiest, lacy pair off the line and threw them after the first pair.

Deny, deny deny! YANBU! Many years ago I was rushing to get DS2 to school, his coat was in the drier, as soon as it was ready, grabbed it and ran, it was only once we were in the playground and I was fastening it up that I noticed my oldest, grayest, grimmest pants firmly stuck to the velcro on his coat. Did a super quick grab and shoved them in my pocket but we'd already walked past a couple of dozen beautifully well turned out Mummies

Yes, definitely twang your knicker elastic at Luke as you leave. That's the only sensible course of action, I agree with ebearhug.

After hearing your dream, I think on some Freudian level you wanted to this to happen. I would have loved pregnancy dreams like that, mine were always more medical.