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To think "put some fucking clothes on!"

445 replies

PutSomeFuckingClothesOn · 10/01/2015 21:08

or at least wrap a towel round yourself FFS.

I go to the gym five days a week, usually in the morning. Every single day without fail there will be people having a shower after their workout. I don't have a problem with this as the showers are in cubicles rather than out in the open.

My problem is is that after they've finished showering you can be sure they will then strut naked out of the shower over to the lockers without bothering to wrap a towel around themselves. They will then stand naked for a bit sorting their clothes and shit out before getting dressed. It's always the same people too.

AIBU to think they should at least wrap a towel round themselves? And get dressed as quickly as possible?

Nobody wants to see them naked!

I did mention it to reception but they just gave me a look like this Hmm.

OP posts:
Angel1983 · 13/01/2015 23:27

I know but I just find the idea of washing the bits which need to be washed after exercise in full view of a load of other people a bit odd! I have no rational reason for this.

2rebecca · 13/01/2015 23:32

I dry my hair semiclothed, usually just underwear but that's to avoid my hair dripping on my clothes or getting hairs all over my clothes as I moult when drying my hair.
If swimming I tend to dry my hair in my costume before getting changed. Saves dripping all over clothes and makes getting changed much faster.
Blow drying the ladygarden is only done at home though, that is odd, and not as entertaining as the whirligig willies on display in the men's changing room upthread.

pearpotter · 13/01/2015 23:33

I certainly don't hide under a towel to get dressed at the gym. Nor do I wander about naked. I take all my clothes off in front of the locker and wrap a towel around myself and have a shower. Then I dry myself in the shower and come back to put non-exercise clothes back on, removing my towel first and being naked for the few seconds it takes me to get underwear on.

SoupDragon · 14/01/2015 08:13

Why do people need to bend over with naked arses hanging about? It's sick. I don't want to see that either

So don't look. It is your problem, not theirs.

I am a prude when it comes to my own nudity. However, I don't believe in putting my own hang ups onto other people.

ithoughtofitfirst · 14/01/2015 08:20

I can't really add anything that hasn't already been said. I think this might be a good thread for the 'u fukin wot m8' meme.

Chandon · 14/01/2015 08:22

"arses hanging about"

LOL

How can one put knickers on without at least briefly bending over though??

HazleNutt · 14/01/2015 08:31

under the towel, Chandon. Doesn't matter that the wriggling and faffing takes about 5 times longer than simply putting your knickers on.

Of course, if you happen to wear thongs, you would still have your arse hanging about, so therefore I guess you should also put your jeans on under the towel.

BIWI · 14/01/2015 08:49

I'm clearly going to the wrong gym!

Sparklingbrook · 14/01/2015 08:52

It's really weird to assume that everyone must behave the same way as you, and to judge them if they don't.

^sums up 99% of AIBU threads. Grin

I am still firmly in the 'don't go anywhere near communal changing rooms ever' camp after all this. They sound stressful.

Ememem84 · 14/01/2015 09:36

have just returned from the gym. the other day when I went and pranced about naked I was the only one in the changing room (it was the middle of the day...) and it felt quite liberating.

today, there were more people, so no exhibitionist prancing. I did the gym, showered, wrapped towel around me dried in shower (as it annoys me when there are huge puddles. then went to change. because i washed my hair today, i had to de towel to put hair up on towel. then put undies on.

this took all of about 3 minutes. i got "hmphed" by one of the other women two women in there. I didn't waggle my bum/fanny/boobs in their faces. I was on the other side of the changing room, facing the wall. all they would have seen was my bum.

OP maybe I was at your gym....

PrimalLass · 14/01/2015 09:51

How can one put knickers on without at least briefly bending over though?

Sit down, perhaps? but on a towel, don't put your bare arse on the benches

Sallyingforth · 14/01/2015 10:05

I have no rational reason for this.

I actually find it laughable that people want to hide little bits of their bodies, especially when they are only amongst people who have identical parts. Equally laughable as wanting to flaunt those same parts.

You're not there to be looked at or to watch others. Just get on and change, FFS!

MERLYPUSSEDOFF · 14/01/2015 10:08

I read it that the 'offending culprit' had got out of the shower (un towelled) and squelched over to the locker still dripping from the shower.

2rebecca · 14/01/2015 10:14

Have never sat down to put my knickers on. Maybe in a few years when my balance is shot. To me it seems less exhibitionist to bend forwards and put your knickers on than sit down so everyone can see your fanjo whilst you put your legs in your knickers which would require raising your legs so your knickers don't get wet on the floor and miming the action sat here on my chair would give anyone so inclined a gynae lesson. I mainly just stand and bend to put my knickers on because that's the way i put my knickers on though. I don't have a special dressing routine for changing rooms. If people are staring at my bum rather than getting on with getting changed that's their problem.

ithoughtofitfirst · 14/01/2015 10:19

Cooooor love a bit of nudity me.

Fgs.

Gileswithachainsaw · 14/01/2015 10:19

Ffs there's an "approved way" to put pants on now?

Do it however you deem fit. respect personal space as you would when dressed too. and just get on with it.

everyone else can just not look. like you shouldn't anyway as staring is rude.

Only1scoop · 14/01/2015 10:20

Or just don't wear anyGrin

Only1scoop · 14/01/2015 10:23

Not really just feeling somewhat liberating reading this thread....

In real life I'm a towel shimmying cover upper of the highest degree....Blush

PacificDogwood · 14/01/2015 10:24
Grin

This thread has now reached the over-thinking stage and will soon spontaneously combust, leaving a trail of genitals, underwear and modesty aprons in its wake!

Gileswithachainsaw · 14/01/2015 10:24
Grin

you gotta laugh.

I mean go to a restaurant and you expect to see people eating. go to a swimming pool or gym.and you will see people naked or wearing very little.

how are people so stupid as to actually be surprised that when you go to somewhere you will see certain things.

Only1scoop · 14/01/2015 10:27

Any modesty aprons going spare?

I wish we still wore those Victorian stripy swimming suits....that buttoned down

I'd love one.

PrimalLass · 14/01/2015 10:27

Ffs there's an "approved way" to put pants on now?

Don't think anyone said so, no.

Sparklingbrook · 14/01/2015 10:28

Going commando home from the gym seems the only answer....

Only1scoop · 14/01/2015 10:30

I'd actually like the straw boater to go with it....

And a stripy matching wind break which I could roll up and take with me to change behind....

BIWI · 14/01/2015 11:40

Perhaps a manual is required, explicitly stating what the acceptable angle of bend is to lean forward to put one's pants on?