Your pool/gym has stalls? Come to Australia, we don’t have any at all. Just a big open space with shower heads (leave that alone) protruding from the wall. It’s old school prison style for us baby! Maybe that’s reltaed to our convict past?
I can’t speak for SAC but I for one am willing to move. 
Use the little stall…hands down. There is a great quiz on line that presents every possible urinal situation and what the correct answer is. Its pretty funny.
Found it:
http://www.drinknation.com/urinaltest.php
Tougher than one would think…
Maybe he just thinks your hot and really can’t figure a way to ask you out so he just stares.
I could see how that would bother you. I grew up swimming, taking 2 showers a day, just a bunch of us all together chatting in the showers… For me that’s normal. Still now, if I go to masters, we’ll all end up chatting in the shower…nobody stares at anyone, nobody thinks anything of it… but those are my friends… i have to say, we make fun of the old lady that just washes herself WAYYYY too long! Now THAT’S gross… When she is there, I just pull the curtain…
Sure the French wash. Just not as often as Queen Victoria used to .
(she used to proudly claim that she’d had only two baths from memory)
Why do yo think the French invented perfume? The stence before perfume was killing the crops and farm animals!
TriDork
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Dear Tridork–Please note that I have deleted my post, and hung you out to dry! I have also quoted your post here in full, so you can’t delete it! Next I am PM’ing Francois to show him the awful things you are saying about the nice French people.
Sure the French wash. Just not as often as Queen Victoria used to .
(she used to proudly claim that she’d had only two baths from memory)
Why do yo think the French invented perfume? The stence before perfume was killing the crops and farm animals!
TriDork
p.s.
TriDork
P.S.
Nope, especially if you are washing one another
OK that was just wrong
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I can show you some pics of Kerri in about 4 hours. And, she and I have shared a shower more than once. (OK, not at the same time, but the same shower one at a time.)
German (temporariy) clm
on your way to carnaxide uh 
have a nice flight
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I hate to admit this and considered posting it under a different name, but what the heck. I have been the “victim” of two undesired such incidents, but both were even more uncomfortable than you described.
I’m nothing special, looks wise, as far as triathletes go, which as stated, is usually better than the norm. Long time ago I used to swim at my college pool as an alumnus. There was always one odd guy who’d swim at the same time of day, and one day I was in the shower when he walked in. I finished up and went back to my locker. A moment later when I turned around this guy was standing there 12 inches from me and he immediately reached out and touched my chest “you have such a nice chest” he said and I immediately and totally unthinkingly punched him right in the nose and he fell to the floor, just like reacting to touching a hot burner. “You have no right to touch me!” came right out my mouth next as I considered my next step. I decided it would be even more gay to fight this guy, naked in the locker room, and if he should wind up winning, well, I may not enjoy the spoils of his victory. However, as he was crying on the floor with a bloody nose I got my stuff together, moved to another area and said “NEVER touch me again, homo”. I believe that was the last time I swam at that pool.
Next incident - years later. I’m married, and a newlywed. My wife swims at the pool, too, and everyone knows us. We had a very close knit tri-community (not that close). The showers are all in one room, nozzles on the wall, men facing the nozzles, asses facing each other. Someone is talking about his overbearing wife, and the guy next to me, who has always been a little “suspicious” and thought to be an equal opportunity kind of guy, suddenly reaches over and pinches my willy while saying “at least your wife let you keep your d*ck, he had his chopped off”, referring to the other guy.
So now I’m standing there in disbelief that this just happened, thinking “what do I do to bring this on?”, and how am I going to deal with this? I decided that, once again, fighting naked in the shower is way too gay, this guy is genuinely liked by everyone (me included), and if I beat him up its not going to be pretty, plus there’s always the chance that I lose. I ignored it. Totally ignored it and acted as if it never happened.
That evening I happened to be (with my wife) downtown for dinner. When I returned to my vehicle - pretty recognizable red Suburban with M-dots on it, HIS business card was under my windshield wiper! Freaked out, I told my bride about the whole thing and we decided I’d best ignore this, too. That was the end of that, forever hopefully.
Man, I feel better now…
Funny. My gym is set up exactly the same way. The old guys are totally unaware of the “rules” as well. On the flip side there is one shower that has better water pressure than the others and I’ll use it if its open, regardless of who is in what stall.
Similar rules should be followed with urinals. If there are 5 of them and I am the only one up there do not come stand right next to me!!! Its just strange.
Would be a great Seinfeld.
Nice work calling him on it, that’s unreal.
it was a seinfeld. to paraphrase…“whether you’re at the urinal or the atm, whenever you take something valuable out of your pants, you should get at least 6 feet (of privacy).”
We might be about tied.
Now I am certainly not a homophobe, and past girlfriends have called me very gay friendly since I had no problem with their gay friends. However, I did chose to speak to the management of one club after a guy started masturbating in the steamroom while I was in there. He could have been straight, but I had also noticed him hanging out way too much in the spa areas. Honestly, I could never enjoy that steamroom again, and I love taking a good steam. In the end the management did nothing, and my year contract ran out, so I did not renew.
I don’t really care where a person showers, just don’t play with yourself in the steamroom.
sorry man, I couldn’t help but laugh at my desk. My officemate thinks I’m nuts. I’ve got a similar weirdo story. A boyfriend of a friend of mine (woman) and I were working out in the weight room. Next thing I know, he flips up his shirt and goes “like my abs? Wanna feel?”. I was horrified. Needless to say I just ignored it but whoa that was embarassing. I’m pretty sure had he tried to touch me, I would’ve thrown out a punch or a dumbell. I guess like some girls, there are “touchy-feely” guys out there…
Anyway, back to the original thread: Dudes, I dunno what you guys are complaining about. You have STALLS. Like the Aussie, I have NO stalls. Its all open. And yes, I like the “leave a space between” rule. Yet, sometimes, creepy men decide to shower RIGHT next to me, even though there are plenty of open shower heads farther away…
OK, I didn’t see that coming. I’m in a Starbuck’s cranking out email like a machine and hop over to this thread. I just spit half my triple espresso on my Vaio.
DUDE!
Schwingding–That sounds almost exactly like what happened to me.
I’m nothing special, looks wise. Long time ago I used to swim at my college pool as an alumnus. There was always one odd guy who’d swim at the same time of day. He is one of those guys who walks around like “I am a triathlete, ain’t I pretty”. One day I walked into the shower when he was in there. I finished up and went back to my locker. A moment later when I turned around this guy was standing there 12 inches from me and I noticed that there was a bee on his chest. I said “a bee just flew out of the ice chest” and tried to flick it off before it stung him. He immediately and viciously punched me in the nose and I fell to the floor. As I was about to respond in kind, he shouted “You have no right to touch me!” like an hysterical fairy. I just couldn’t hit someone back who was so, I don’t know, pitiful? I decided it would be even more gay to fight this guy, naked in the locker room, and he would probably just enjoy it like a prison rape. While I was trying to staunch the flow of blood from my nose, he came back again and said “NEVER touch me again, homo”. It always seemed to me that this guy was a little too defensive about the whole gay-ness thing. I believe that was the last time I swam at that pool.
HAHAHAHA! So you’re the homo! (I heard what you really said)
Gotcha!
Have you thought about getting some of those iron underwear like Frank Drebbin had on in the Naked Gun movie where he went to jail?
How about peeing in the shower (ala George Costanza)?
How about peeing in the shower (ala George Costanza)?
“It’s all pipes!”
I have 2 pools I swim at; The local high school pool has divided showers and the health club has a big room (as described above). I’ve always wondered why they have 20 shower heads in there. I’ve never seen more than 4 or 5 people in there. It seems as though people just wait their turn as so not to overcrowd. If the shower were full of 20 people at once you would literally be standing shoulder to shoulder with the guy next to you. Who designed that place that secided to put the shower heads on 16" centers?