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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:
angelikacpickles · 26/11/2019 23:54

@pinkboa

He's 2 why would he be using a men's restroom... he's still in nappies. I said equivalent to...

Well just FYI, when your DS does need to use a toilet, you bring him to the toilet that corresponds to the sex of the parent, not the child.

Butterymuffin · 26/11/2019 23:54

So at this school with the swimming pool, there was nowhere for you to wait during the lesson other than one of the changing rooms? No corridor, no communal space of any sort? Okaaaay.

MistyCloud · 26/11/2019 23:55

Mistycloud

Backs away from thread - but spies from the sidelines.......

@T0tallyFuckedUpFamily

Be careful you don’t accidentally reverse into naked man’s penis! 🍆

LOL! Grin

Groovinpeanut · 26/11/2019 23:58

I haven't laughed so much at a thread. Grin
OP, you seriously expect people to believe this?
I think you must need diagrams drawing to be so clueless about such things.
Man changes in men's changing rooms, offends female lurker.
I hope this makes the papers😃

pinkboa · 26/11/2019 23:58

Both...because well I can't be bothered... in and out! Ladies is crowded; men's is empty and I have a son. Like I said I'm not British. But now I know!

This is my first venture into swimming lessons.

I don't swim... I don't go to pools. I'm one of those weirdos wearing the sandals and getting my kid to wear swim socks just in case.

The swimming I have done in my life has been in the sea!

I'm glad I could provide the laughs! Perhaps he was having a passive aggressive protest. 🤷🏽‍♀️. Just remember there was another child there besides mine that wasn't his. Meh.

OP posts:
allthegoodusernameshavegone · 26/11/2019 23:59

Trixie
Girl, My dreams tonight are shattered 🤢

m0therofdragons · 26/11/2019 23:59

Dh took dtds into the men's changing room at swimming when they were 4 and too young to change without an adult. There were 3 men naked doing competitive press ups Blush tbh man getting changed without a fuss seems much more normal.

whattodo2019 · 26/11/2019 23:59

Curious as to why you (as a female) were in the male changing rooms. Usually parents take children into the changing room of the parents gender not the childs...
I'm a bit nervous now talking about gender here.... I'm bound to offend someone!!!

theEnglishInPatient · 27/11/2019 00:00

I can't decide if this is just bizarre
a complete piss take
or the most flipping ridiculous and entitled hysterical behaviour I've heard of.

so pinkboa you are happy for my HUSBAND (definitively male) to go into your female changing area if he prefers it to the male one? Seriously?!?

MrsFoxPlus4Again · 27/11/2019 00:01

@whattodo2019 the OP was out of breath and sat there willy watching

m0therofdragons · 27/11/2019 00:01

Whaaaat? Sorry just caught up. So op would it be fine if my dh took our dds into the ladies? Wow, yabu and a bit bonkers.

TrixieFranklin · 27/11/2019 00:01

I need to go to sleep

NameChange84 · 27/11/2019 00:01

Just remember there was another child there besides mine that wasn't his

Yes. And you were sat there for 30 mins while children who weren't yours were undressing and dressing.

You are just as bad as him.

theEnglishInPatient · 27/11/2019 00:01

Like I said I'm not British.
but you are from Planet Earth aren't you? You' ve managed to access this forum, so you are a bit familiar with the modern western world?

MrsFoxPlus4Again · 27/11/2019 00:02

@TrixieFranklin if I don’t stop giggling I bet I’m on the sofa tonight 😂

TrixieFranklin · 27/11/2019 00:04

@MrsFoxPlus4Again you're welcome to come over to mine this has been the highlight of my year I'm not going to sleep anytime soon WineGrin

TheProdigalKittensReturn · 27/11/2019 00:05

I was assuming this would be a unisex changing room and was ready to defend your negative reaction on that basis, but if you were in the men's changing room then a. you had no business being there and b. of course you're going to see bare male bums in a men's changing room!

pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:05

There is actually nowhere. It's a stand alone building (dome). There is a short narrow corridor that leads to the pool, can't stand there as you end up blocking people coming and going.

I suppose next time it's back to the car to wait!

I would have stayed by the pool but the humidity fucks with my asthma... so I left. 🤷🏽‍♀️.

I think more of a princess poppy type troll doll would suffice... as that's more my vibe, I don't do orange men... too little bum hair!

OP posts:
NameChange84 · 27/11/2019 00:07

I thought it was a school?

Catsandchardonnay · 27/11/2019 00:08

He may have had a hairy bum but you have hairy hands methinks.

MrsFoxPlus4Again · 27/11/2019 00:08

@TrixieFranklin usually he thinks im funny. Just told him I won’t be going anywhere unless he sweeps the house for wild willys because I’m terrifed 😂😂😂

pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:09

@NameChange84

No I sat there for 20 minutes in an empty room!

Dad and daughters came after me!

Dad with son came after them.

So I didn't walk in on him getting his children dressed, he came and saw me and my son sat there waiting.

Hope that clarifies.

OP posts:
changeforprivacy · 27/11/2019 00:09

Wait- you are complaining about a naked MAN in the MENS CHANGING ROOMS Confused

Fuck me get this shit in classics, it's an absolute belter Grin

TrixieFranklin · 27/11/2019 00:11

But did you not see the theme OP? DAD with children and DAD with children came in the MENS. Did you expect them to wait for you to decide your little wild willy safari expedition was over for the day before getting ready?

ThinkIamflyingundertheradar · 27/11/2019 00:11

Lol! Naked man in male changing room alert. Hold the front page.

At least he wasn’t accused of ‘prancing’ which is the usual MN descriptor for any woman who dares to bare all in a female changing room.