More locker room Hijinx....... (Page 2)

How do you find your spot in transition?

I hear you.....then I'd have been posting today about how much fun I had in the locker room last night. 

How do you find your spot in transition?

I would have noisily and huffily removed my things to another spot and then called a friend to talk about locker room jerks, with a lot of very pointed looks.  That's how we do thing in Minnesota.

So last night I walk into the locker room at the Y later than usual and it's empty.  There are a few locks here and there but nobody in the room.  I go over to a random locker and start changing.  I think there are 10 rows of lockers with 15 or 20 lockers on each side.

So I'm standing there half dressed and in walks this guy who kind of stands at the end of the row where I am.  I kind of nod to him and them he walks over and opens up the locker RIGHT NEXT TO the one I'm in.

I say, "dude!"

He says, "what?"

I say, "you can't find another locker in this whole empty room?"

He says, "I always use ths one"

I say, "not today"....and I shut his locker.

He just stands there......and then he kind of starts looking around, and then he kind of starts wringing his hands and looking really distraught, and then it dawns on my stupid arse that the guy is autistic or something similar and he really can't figure out what to do.  I felt like a schmuck. 

I said, "here bud, I'm sorry" and opened his locker back up.....he didn't miss a beat, and looked like he just found his long lost friend.

There's a moral here somewhere......mostly it's about not being stupid.

I think that's how thing escalate for no reason. 

I mean, I wouldn't take a locker next to someone in the first place - so I'm not in the situation.

BUT, had someone done that to me in any other instance, I would have done more than stand around apprehensively.

I'm sure it be responded by strong words and HOPEFULLY it would defuse at that point.

I also keep thinking of that scene when Dustin Hoffman freaks out at the airport when he can't fly Quantis in Rainman if you might have done that to someone with some issues!

I guess if I'm only inconvenienced or made slightly uncomfortable, I can live with it rather than do/say anything that could escalate.

Same reason I might say "excuse me" if someone bumps ME in a crowded bar instead of puffing my chest and demanding some kind of satisfaction.  It's easier to save "bringing the thunder" for bigger issues!

I hire a chartered helicopter to shine a search spotlight on my bike - which is outfitted with no less than 3 helium balloons in varying lengths (one is a Hello Kitty one), a hot pink feather boa, a poster attached to a yard stick that reads "LISA", which is sometimes mistaken for "USA" because I run the "L" and "I" together accidentally, and my orange Home Depot bucket. Plus the entire path from the lake to my bike is solid (and I mean SOLID) sidewalk chalk. It took 3 days and 16 buckets of sidewalk chalk but it was worth it.

Yep, that's me.....I have no idea why that aggravated me so much...and then yeah, when the guy did the Dustin Hoffman impersonation I was like, geez, I'm an idiot. 

I'm not much worried about, it is what it is, and I've enjoyed seeing how others look at it.  Like I said, I bet it never happens again....who the hell takes a locker next to someone in an empty room with 100's of lockers?

I hire a chartered helicopter to shine a search spotlight on my bike - which is outfitted with no less than 3 helium balloons in varying lengths (one is a Hello Kitty one), a hot pink feather boa, a poster attached to a yard stick that reads "LISA", which is sometimes mistaken for "USA" because I run the "L" and "I" together accidentally, and my orange Home Depot bucket. Plus the entire path from the lake to my bike is solid (and I mean SOLID) sidewalk chalk. It took 3 days and 16 buckets of sidewalk chalk but it was worth it.

Agreed. I think you should open another thread in COJ for us all to ponder this issue with you...

I hire a chartered helicopter to shine a search spotlight on my bike - which is outfitted with no less than 3 helium balloons in varying lengths (one is a Hello Kitty one), a hot pink feather boa, a poster attached to a yard stick that reads "LISA", which is sometimes mistaken for "USA" because I run the "L" and "I" together accidentally, and my orange Home Depot bucket. Plus the entire path from the lake to my bike is solid (and I mean SOLID) sidewalk chalk. It took 3 days and 16 buckets of sidewalk chalk but it was worth it.