Freeform Forum: #shitIseeatthegym
Yesterday was the first time in months that I used the locker room at my gym. Lately I’ve been either going directly home after a work out, using a hotel fitness center or not working out at all.
I had a work event after business hours and I wanted to get to the gym yesterday since I want to shape up for Ireland this September. I ducked into Pottruck late during work hours, did my cardio and headed to the showers to clean up before the event.
Lo and behold, there were individual stalls in the showers in the locker room. The last time I showered in the gym, it was a big communal shower with two lonely individual stalls at the end. I am so excited about this new feature because I will never have to take part in one of the most uncomfortable experiences in my life: conversations while naked in the shower.
For me, being naked is simply a utilitarian need in order to get clean, and not a state that one should maintain for prolonged periods in a quasi-public forum (or public for that matter). What one does in his or her own private areas is his or her business.
The reason that I’m in the shower is to get clean from my workout. However there are times that I also need the warm water to soak me into a human state or relieve some of my soreness from my workout. I guess that I try to have as much private time as possible, remaining insular, in this quasi-public locale. I feel intruded upon when men come into the shower continuing a conversation from outside the shower.
It goes beyond that unspoken rule that men have of not talking at a urinal. (Curse you who break that rule, too.) Again, it’s a common and shared need that all have to relieve oneself. Public and quasi-public restrooms should be used for their utilitarian function, and that function only, and not hold a discussion. I just extrapolate my feelings from a urinal to a shower. Only do what the place is designed for, nothing more.
No, I don’t care about your stock trades. It’s useless to me to hear about your new workout. I am uninterested in your not-present business partner’s sales philosophy. I am hoping that you would just shut up and let me shower without hearing you voice.
Lastly, don’t even think of trying to rope me in your conversation. I know that my mother raised me right, but I’m just going to be rude to you. Only once did a complete stranger try to involve me in the ongoing showering conversation. I was curt and surly. I don’t even remember what he said to me, but I did respond, “You’re kidding me, right? I have nothing to say,” and I quickly finished up my shower and got out.
If you wanna talk naked at the gym, go to the sauna, that’s what it’s there for.
I had a work event after business hours and I wanted to get to the gym yesterday since I want to shape up for Ireland this September. I ducked into Pottruck late during work hours, did my cardio and headed to the showers to clean up before the event.
Lo and behold, there were individual stalls in the showers in the locker room. The last time I showered in the gym, it was a big communal shower with two lonely individual stalls at the end. I am so excited about this new feature because I will never have to take part in one of the most uncomfortable experiences in my life: conversations while naked in the shower.
For me, being naked is simply a utilitarian need in order to get clean, and not a state that one should maintain for prolonged periods in a quasi-public forum (or public for that matter). What one does in his or her own private areas is his or her business.
The reason that I’m in the shower is to get clean from my workout. However there are times that I also need the warm water to soak me into a human state or relieve some of my soreness from my workout. I guess that I try to have as much private time as possible, remaining insular, in this quasi-public locale. I feel intruded upon when men come into the shower continuing a conversation from outside the shower.
It goes beyond that unspoken rule that men have of not talking at a urinal. (Curse you who break that rule, too.) Again, it’s a common and shared need that all have to relieve oneself. Public and quasi-public restrooms should be used for their utilitarian function, and that function only, and not hold a discussion. I just extrapolate my feelings from a urinal to a shower. Only do what the place is designed for, nothing more.
No, I don’t care about your stock trades. It’s useless to me to hear about your new workout. I am uninterested in your not-present business partner’s sales philosophy. I am hoping that you would just shut up and let me shower without hearing you voice.
Lastly, don’t even think of trying to rope me in your conversation. I know that my mother raised me right, but I’m just going to be rude to you. Only once did a complete stranger try to involve me in the ongoing showering conversation. I was curt and surly. I don’t even remember what he said to me, but I did respond, “You’re kidding me, right? I have nothing to say,” and I quickly finished up my shower and got out.
If you wanna talk naked at the gym, go to the sauna, that’s what it’s there for.
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