Grim gym changing room behaviour

[HandbagsnGladrags]

Came out of pool this morning to get my stuff for my shower and a woman was cutting her toenails on the bench where people put their stuff. She had a towel down but still 🤮 Am I right that this is completely grim? She also had her arse stuck out right in front of the locker I was trying to get to and made no move whatsoever to let me through when it was clear I was trying to get to my locker.

Arse fine, toenail clippings absolutely rank.

Hawking snot in the pool is disgusting and loads of people do it, I feel sick now.

Pointless and patronising comment.

Besides, I don't come into publicly available spaces like pools expecting to have a face to face conversation with a stranger about how their habits are gross. Doing so has all sorts of potential to be awkward, exhausting, and risky.

Rather than having very high expectations of people to scold other adults at will, why not have the very basic expectation that adults behave responsibly in public spaces without having to be verbally prompted?

Because we expect higher standards people from who spend more money than those who use council run facilities?

I have used pool and gym changing rooms for years and have never experienced anything like this.

Sounds like OP needs telling to have a direct conversation with the person concerned, rather than whinge about it anonymously online afterwards. 😂

I don't know why it should be up to me to tell people they're disgusting. I didn't particularly want a confrontation which would have ruined the lovely chilled out morning I'd had.

That is disgusting. I have seen some grim behaviour too. I have seen people change nappies on the bench where we put our stuff on (when there are 2 changing tables literally right behind), and even worse, I once saw a mother encourage her son to pee in the poolside shower rather than take him to the toilet. Fortunately the lifeguard heard and gave her a telling off before the kid could actually do it.

Brushing teeth wouldn't bother me. Surely that's just the same as washing your hair or body? As long as it's in a single sink obv.

I actually saw a human turd in the shower of the same changing rooms years ago as well. Looked like a toddler who hadn't been supervised. The mother saw it and just left it there.

And this is David Lloyd as well.

'If a personal grooming task produces human debris, don't do it in shared spaces' would be my rule of thumb. No shaving, nail-clipping, foot-filing etc in communal showers or changing areas.

Hair comes out in the shower, so does that mean people shouldn't wash their hair after a swim?

@InPraiseOfBacchus absolutely spot on - I couldn't have put it better myself.

Toenail clipping is gross. Shaving I wouldn’t do personally but in a private shower cubicle I don’t think it’s so bad. Teeth brushing I would have no problem with at all 🤷🏻‍♀️

I find it weird that anyone does more than the basic shower/dry/dress in a changing room tbh. Full body moisturising/toenail clipping/leg shaving etc. are home activities. Fair enough if you are going on somewhere and put your make up on it do your hair, but more than that is unusual.

Why tell us? Should have role her.
yuck

Told her 🙄

I wouldn't do this personally but really wouldn't be too shocked. But people sitting next to me on a train proceeding to put on their full slap. That's much worse. Doesn't happen now after Covid I suppose.

I'll never forget the woman in the changing rooms at my gym many moons ago who sat on the bench with her legs akimbo plucking her pubic hair from her undercarriage with a tweezers 🤢

Blimey i don't know why i'm reading this thread. I can't use communal pools and although i haven't passed my aversion on to any of my DCs i'm going to be ultra twitchy at DDs swimming tonight ! 😷

I once saw a woman shaving her lady business in the communal showers at our local pool. She was proper stretching bits out for a close shave, really searching out all the possible nooks & crannies. I thought that a bit much. The showers had rubbish water pressure too, so water (& recently shorn hairs) pooled rather than get swept down the drains. Grim

I’ve worn pool flip flops there ever since

YANBU about the toenails (our Gym has signs up: no tonail clipping, no shaving) so I'd have been having words with her.

but

She also had her arse stuck out right in front of the locker I was trying to get to and made no move whatsoever to let me through when it was clear I was trying to get to my locker.

if you don't ask people to move, they can't know you're in their way, can they?

😲

I believe it.
For a while i was a member of a fairly expensive gym - for the swimming - to try and cure myself of my swimming pool phobia. I thought if the facilities were really nice i'd get over it.

Well the habits of my fellow gym members were awful! Parading about naked for ages and ages and doing personal grooming which others don't want to see.

I think they thought it was ok because they're paying a member's fee and it's an extension of their own bathroom 🙄

I'm glad I did not read this whilst eating lunch. Grim indeed.

I must have seen/heard people clipping their nails on the train about four or five times.

What on earth possesses people?

I agree with you, on all of it!

What is going on here? Almost daily an adult woman declares that she was so flabbergasted, shocked, amazed, startled by something that she quite simply lost the power of speech, was in fact utterly struck dumb. What is this modern phenomenon? Or they didn’t even attempt to say anything because huffing, under-breath muttering, hard-staring passive aggression is so much easier? I hate the phrase ‘use your words’, it’s for 5 year olds. But if you want someone to stop doing something, say so.

Well I wouldn’t in case she used her hands and punched me in the face 🫣🤣