Dude, I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’
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I just wish folks would stop looking while I’m trying to shower. It’s not like I’m a fountain or anything…
I have seen that exact behavior too, very strange. I thought it was by accident but maybe they do it on purpose? I try to touch and come in contact with as little as possible at the gym
The worst I saw was a hoop the size of a shower curtain ring through the ol Johnson. The dude walked around with no towel ever. Just wrong at so so many levels…
Him and I will not be having any conversations let alone talking about, well, you know.
“You guys need to stop looking around and just stare at the ground. Thats my trick.”
I normally follow this rule, but a few weeks back at The Y I had finished my swim and shower and was getting dressed when I heard someone using the blow dryer. I looked up and the guy who was swimming in the lane next 2 me had come out of the shower and was using the Y blow dryer to blow dry his ass hair dry.
There an old guy here that does the same thing. I came around the corner where the wall mounted blow dryer are and see this 70ish old guy bent full over, butt hicked up in the air flow, so he could get ALL of his ass crack dry.
I don’t know how you guys walk around with those things.
When I retired from competetive swimming, it took 6 weeks for my skin to stop smelling like clorine whenever I took a shower. It gets embedded in your skin so you can’t get rid of it.
And lakes are nasty, I would always take a shower after a lake swim. Who knows what kind of creepy crawly fungus you can get in a lake.
An old post of mine…this one got me into trouble at the Y
Dear YMCA
As a member who is in the YMCA five to six times a week, a member of Unlimited Fitness and the Men’s Fitness Center I have seen quite a few things at the YMCA in the years. In my time at the YMCA most of the things I see are positive for families to enjoy. Recently however, in the Men’s Fitness Center things have made a change for the worse. My complaint is not about the facilities or the staff of the Fitness Center, rather it is about some of the members.
On a nightly basis there are a few members who will sit in the MFC, not work out, and not use the YMCA facilities for anything other than watching television. This television watching in and of itself would typically not be an issue if not for the fact that these members are disgusting.
One of them you will know is there by his odor. The second you open the door you can smell him. He will have is filthy socks laying over the back of the couch, his T-shirt (as filthy as the socks) will be laying on the couch next to him. During his stay at the YMCA he will sit there and eat some sort of vile food that you can smell throughout the center. This is some sort of smell, much like that of rancid cat food. I have heard members other than myself comment on how it will actually gag you as you walk into the MFC. On occasion this member will actually shower, not often but sometimes. When he does he will sit soaking wet on a towel that is able to cover not much more than the upper thigh of one leg and either sleep or watch television.
Another member – well he likes to watch the showers and whirlpool. He must really enjoy the humidity in the shower area as when he is at the Y, he can always be found somewhere near the showers, staring. There are rumors about this member but none are confirmed. It does make a person feel a bit odd to get out of the shower and have a naked man looking at you try to dry off with out some level of privacy.
Then there is the bike rider…yet another member of the “Citizens United Against Deodorant Club of America”. He will come into the Y (on occasion drunk I think) and stumble into the MFC and sleep on the couch that our other stinky member is not sweating on while eating rancid cat food. This guy is another class act that the YMCA should be proud to proclaim as a member and possibly put on a poster in the hallway. He smells as bad if not worse than any other human being who does not reside in a third world nation (though he is possibly out done by rancid cat food man).
There must be something that the YMCA can do to resolve this situation. I pay quite a bit of money every month to enjoy the YMCA. I would like to be able to sit and read the news paper on occasion in the lounge area of the MFC. However these people make it impossible to enjoy your self as they make the environment either toxic or into a happenstance peep show. I would certainly like for a YMCA manager to contact me and try to find a solution to this issue.
Oh…and also if they could try to get the urinals in the rear rest room area of the MFC to flush properly those of us members who care about such matters would greatly appreciate it.
what part of this got you in trouble?
In the winter, the itchy skin issue gets even worse for me because of the lack of humidity. So it’s always a priority to get rinsed off as quickly and as thoroughly as I can.
After reading this thread I thought I’d better check the condition of my swimsuit to make sure I didn’t show up on the wrong end of a post. Imagine my horror when I found the suit in the below condition. I went out last night and bought two new swimsuits that will hopefully last longer (polyester instead of nylon/spandex). The real WTF is that the suit only has 20km on it. Aren’t these things supposed to last longer than that? (I just started swimming so it’s my first suit) This one is from a large manufacturer and the label says 80% Nylon, 20% Spandex.
This is not disturbing but it is true. The whirlpool at my club is right near the exit of the men’s locker room as you enter the pool area. One day as I am walking through the locker room and to the pool, I noticed a woman totally relaxing in the whirlpool. Apparently, she got confused and walkied into the men’s locker room from the pool and did not see any men to tip her off that she had made a wrong turn. Shortly after I told the lifeguard, she came running out of there with a scared look on her face. I assume some old guy must have finally gotten in the tub.
I have always said that dudes that are there just there to look at dudes should have to use the women’s locker room so they do not get any free peeks at us normal guys. Of course, the women in the same class should have to use the men’s locker rooms.
The guy at my old gym that kind of grossed me out would bring a large metal file and file the dry skin off his feet leaving a pile of dried skin on the floor next to his locker.
Regular suits degrade from the chlorine pretty quickly, but polyester suits last incredibly long. You’ll probably be good for a couple years with those…
After reading this thread I thought I’d better check the condition of my swimsuit to make sure I didn’t show up on the wrong end of a post. Imagine my horror when I found the suit in the below condition. I went out last night and bought two new swimsuits that will hopefully last longer (polyester instead of nylon/spandex). The real WTF is that the suit only has 20km on it. Aren’t these things supposed to last longer than that? (I just started swimming so it’s my first suit) This one is from a large manufacturer and the label says 80% Nylon, 20% Spandex.
Always wear two suits.
Always.
The guy at my old gym that kind of grossed me out would bring a large metal file and file the dry skin off his feet leaving a pile of dried skin on the floor next to his locker.
Lovely
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The worst I saw was a hoop the size of a shower curtain ring through the ol Johnson. The dude walked around with no towel ever. Just wrong at so so many levels…
Did he hang his towel on it? Maybe it’s convienient.
just saw the dangling ring 3 days ago, the guys was probably 50. Sick, just sick.
Also, I have witnessed the full body blow dry as well. A guy at my old gym, a guy put the blow dryer on the counter, bent over and spread his cheeks to dry himself thoroughly. He then turned around put one foot on the counter and blow dried his twig and giggles. I stared like it was a bad accident, I was confused, horrified and frightened!
I thought most of these stories had to be made up until I saw one today. I just finished a ride on the Queen K and head down to the spa at the Four Seasons to hit the cold plunge and take a shower and shave. The cold plunge is in the men’s section with the outdoor hot tub and stuff so seeing fat, naked man isn’t too uncommon. I go to get into the cold plunge and there he is in all of his splendor and he obviously had just seen American Wedding and gone a little crazy with the clippers if you know what I mean. That isn’t so bad and then he proceeds to start doing crunches in the chaise lounge while he is grunting and working up a sweat. Then he plops down on the deck and knocks out about ten push ups, but the clincher was when he gets back on the chaise and starts doing some sort of piriformis stretch and gives us the brown eye.