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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 🤢.

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raspberryk · 27/11/2019 00:13

If I was that man I would have put my girls in the cubicle whilst giving you a right old show. The squat and floss, the helicopter and maybe even the world's strongest penis (towel hung over erect member). He was quite restrained I think and kind that he only flashed you a hairy arse crack.

pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:13

@NameChange84

Would you like the gps coordinates so you can find the school and where the pool is located?

You do know most schools have stand alone buildings.

I'd like to declare that I'm actually from Jupiter!

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MrsFoxPlus4Again · 27/11/2019 00:15

I want to keep this thread forever. I hope we aren’t upsetting you OP.

Beeziekn33ze · 27/11/2019 00:15

The thread that keeps on giving!!

TrixieFranklin · 27/11/2019 00:16

Fair play to the OP she's taken it surprisingly well.

ZenNudist · 27/11/2019 00:17

Lol at this. Couldn't read past p3. OP in the mens changing room, surprised to see a man change!!

I would say you have a point in the unisex ones but fair game in single sex changing rooms to be naked.

You were in the wrong. Women should not go in mens changing rooms. Im surprised no one reported you. I have sons. I send 9yo in the mens and take 5yo in the women's or use unisex where possible.

pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:19

@TrixieFranklin

My what?

The internet exists for a reason. I don't need to sit in a men's room for nefarious reasons.... it's too easily accessible, just look at the hairy bum image posted earlier. Google is a wonderful tool.

@MrsFoxPlus4Again quite the opposite lol. I'm more annoyed at the people thinking I'm a perv because of my ignorance and many who don't quite read with comprehension in mind.

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LaBelleSauvage · 27/11/2019 00:21

When the men came in did you not think to yourself at that point you should probably leave?

Or at least get out your trilby and newspaper with eye holes

pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:29

@LaBelleSauvage

No...because we are all adults with children in the room. I wasn't expecting for one of them to go completely starkers! Besides there was nothing worth looking at!

But I am now aware that nudity in front of a strangers child is ok as long as you are in the correct dressing room! 😬👍🏽.

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Schuyler · 27/11/2019 00:30

You’ve accused a man of being a perv when you went and sat alone in the men’s changing room and posted about the poor bloke’s supposed ugly arse on a forum.

Even if you thought you went in the changing room that corresponds with your child’s sex, you weren’t with your child at the time, were you?!

Schuyler · 27/11/2019 00:31

Scrap that, you were with your kid but still, that’s so weird.

pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:32

@Schuyler

Where did I say he was a perv?

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Schuyler · 27/11/2019 00:36

Well, you’ve made multiple comments about how it would have been “appropriate “ and “considerate” to use a towel which are loaded terms, in this context. You’ve also used specific language to imply he’s doing it purposefully....as if a child could walk into his penis. Honestly!

BigChocFrenzy · 27/11/2019 00:37

"But I am now aware that nudity in front of a strangers child is ok as long as you are in the correct dressing room "

My gym - like every other one I've belonged to in the Uk or Germany - has single sex changing rooms, no cubicles and the showers are open too
(I've never belonged to posh / expensive ones with a pool)

We are all naked getting changed and showering;
I've never seen anyone trying to hide under a towel

We very rarely see kids there, as there is only an occasional class for them
However, when they are there, we continue as normal, no coverups
So kids of either sex will see naked women. The parents aren't bothered at all.

BigChocFrenzy · 27/11/2019 00:39

If a man brought his DD in, he'd be thrown out on his ear

Like you should have been

Men are entitled to their privacy & dignity in single sex spaces, just like we are

LemonGingerCakes · 27/11/2019 00:39

Grin this is funny

BigChocFrenzy · 27/11/2019 00:41

If a man brought his DD in to the womens' changing rooms, he'd be thrown out on his ear

Like you should have been

Men are entitled to their privacy & dignity in single sex spaces, just like we are

pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:42

Just to add I would find this odd even if I was in the women's dressing room.

Because I wouldn't go naked in front of anyones child boy or girl... because I don't believe it's my duty to enlighten other people's children about the varying forms of the human body. Man or woman I would still be wondering why they couldn't have put a towel around themselves, especially as this is a very specific infant/toddler swim lesson.

It would be interesting to see if the mothers who go into the pool with their kids also go starkers in a room full of people and their children. I highly doubt it.

But I guess we won't find out until the next Episode of human bare bums in dressing rooms!

But I've learned a lot... thanks!

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Schuyler · 27/11/2019 00:43

He’s probably posting on dadsnet about some weird women who sat, fully clothed in a changing room and looked at his arse.

Schuyler · 27/11/2019 00:44

^woman not women, hopefully there was only one of you!

pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:46

@Schuyler

I used those specific words... well then.

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pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:47

@Schuyler

Go to bed, I'm sure you have work.

Please. Goodnight.

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Schuyler · 27/11/2019 00:51

Good night but no, I do not have work tomorrow but thank you for suggesting I go to bed. :)

Aquamarine1029 · 27/11/2019 00:52

Where did I say he was a perv?

That is EXACTLY what you're implying, and you know it.

pinkboa · 27/11/2019 00:52

@BigChocFrenzy

What part of it sounded undignified for him?

It's clearly common practice, something I was not aware of.

Like I said, if you bothered to read , now I knowSmile.

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