LOCKER ROOM DILEMMA

This experience which I am about to share with you, is probably one of the funniest situations in which I have found myself in a very long time.

I recently decided. to visit a very bigger more upscale gym, where I was offered a free workout to sort of get a feel of the place and to help me make my mind up as to if I would want to become a member. Let me start by saying, that I had an wonderfully pleasant team member show me around and this gym awesome. Three floors of workout options for everyone, sauna at the ready, personal trainers, classes, the works. You name it, this gym had it. I guess it is safe to say that I liked what I was being offered. After my guided tour, I worked out and was shown to the locker room where I could shower and freshen myself up. So, I take my bag out the locker to get my stuff to have a shower. Luckily, I had brought my own towel. Not that there was anything wrong with the towels which the gym provided, its just that they were just a little bigger than a hand towel and I couldn't see myself covering only my front and walking bare ass to the shower, so as I said luckily I had my own towel. As I took my stuff out and laughed in my head, at the thought of my bare butt walking to the shower, it dawned on me, how am I going to get my clothes off and stay covered at the same time. Hmmm. I quickly assessed my surroundings and noticed that no one, young or old had an issue with going Full Monty to walk to the shower. I must admit, as I assessed my surroundings I was little awe-struck, at the heightened level of comfort these women found in being completely naked in front of strangers. I, on the other hand, have never been in an environment such as this one and although a little taken back, I couldn't find myself completely focused on anyone or anything else other than my dilemma on how to stay covered and get to the shower.

I know what everyone reading this must be saying, why not just go home and shower right. Well I thought about it as I struggled to keep my towel around my waist, but in my classic fashion I had to prove to myself I can do this and wouldn't be defeated. After 10 minutes I finally got my tights off, I was still wearing my tank top, bra and panties. I thought about it long and hard and there was no way, unless I was Houdini, that I was getting my stuff off and keeping that towel around me in entirety. So, I decided to walk over to the shower with what I had left on, with the towel around my waist. My intention was to hang my stuff on a hook. Wrong, the shower stall had no hooks, except for the one outside the stall on which to hook your towel and I didn't want to display my panties and bra on a hook. So, I put the towel over the bra, on the hook outside and noticed that in the stall had a nut attached to a screw, which seemed to have enough surface area to balance my tank top and panties. Let me just say this was no small feat, it took me a good 2 minutes to get the stuff balanced and 2 minutes, focusing on balancing clothing on a screw in a shower stall, is a very long time. With that said it was time to shower. I turned the tap on, not noticing that the shower head was pointed directly at me, so when I turned the tap a gush of freezing cold water hit my body. I started gasping from shock and turned the tap more to reach warm water, but apparent I turned it too hard to the left and the water got too damn hot….smh. I turned the tap off and readjusted the shower head, turned the tap on and finally got the right temperature water and took my well deserved shower. On getting out of the shower I was able to get dressed without having to go Full Monty. One would think that that was it, what more could happen right. Well, on packing my bag to leave, I happened to hold my head up at the wrong time to see a woman remove her towel to put her foot up on the bench to lotion, she was facing me…..smh.

Now, just remember that although the environment I described is one typical of any gym locker room and is pretty normal for some of you, it was my first time in that environment and I was completely out of my element. So did I become a member?….. Yes I did. The gym was amazing, the environment is comfortable to work out and the locker room…..although it was a little shocking, next time I will be prepared now I know what to expect.