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04 May 2009

Help, I'm Turning Into Larry David! I keep seeing this stuff in my gym locker room that would be perfect in an episode of Curve Your Enthusiasm. . .→[More:]

1. Urinating in the shower. . .yes it was urine, not drippage from the shower water.

2. These guys, and they are all obese, who seem to like to watch TV, sprawled out on these naugahyde-covered chairs, with nothing between their skin and the naugahyde.

3. Guys in the steam room, both sitting like mentioned above, with nothing in between, and then shaving in there, even though there are signs on the door prohibiting said activity.

I could go on. This is a high end gym (which just happens to be the one that works for me, despite the cost and it being out of my social "league").

I always want to say something but never do. Larry David would, I am sure. But it's gross. Get in. Get out. Don't be disgusting.

post by: danf at: 11:05 | 10 comments

Curb.

Curb.

posted by danf 04 May | 11:06

It's all pipes. What's the difference?

posted by Joe Beese 04 May | 11:33

I've never understood this type of guy. The naked locker room guy. I never really associated it with obese guys--actually, I tend to think of old skinny dudes. It makes me get a little bit Larry David too.

posted by mullacc 04 May | 12:06

On the other hand, I never understood the guys who are mortified of being nude or encountering nudity in a locker room. But I didn't have any high school locker room trauma, so maybe that's part of it.

posted by mullacc 04 May | 12:10

But there is a certain etiquette, I think.

Like, a guy I had never seen before noticed that, after my shower, I dried off in the unoccupied sauna (it was a cold day) and then came up to me and commented on what I had just done, saying that it seemed like a good idea. Gave me the creeps to have someone watching what I was doing in there.

(I still remember about the guy in high school getting the erection in the shower and how long it took for that (the incident) to pass.)

posted by danf 04 May | 12:35

My gym has a few naked locker room guys. Why the need to be doing everything in front of the sinks naked? Why just stand there naked and watch the TV (at least at my gym people wear a towel while sitting on the Naugahyde sofa to watch TV and the steam room makes it pretty clear there's no shaving and you must be covered). It seems like you get to a certain age and you just go "fuck it, i'm not going to wear a towel anymore."

posted by birdherder 04 May | 13:21

i just really want to curve my enthusiasm, hopefully upward.

posted by ethylene 04 May | 14:21

One advantage of living two blocks from the Gym is that I just walk home and shower there.

posted by octothorpe 04 May | 17:01

I think "curve your enthusiasm" is excellent. You know, don't abandon it, don't feel like you shouldn't have enthusiasm, just... curve it, when necessary.

posted by flapjax at midnite 04 May | 20:35

Well, gymnasium does mean "to exercise naked" ....

posted by dhartung 04 May | 22:53

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