Gym/Pool horror stories (Page 4)

last thursday at my local Y...

i walk past the kiddy pool with the slides and fountains on my way to the lap pool and notice it's freaking packed since school is out now...

i swim my laps...

i walk past the kiddy pool on my way out and notice the pool is empty with the exception of 2 lifeguards....one with a long scooper net held out over the pool....and the other pouring 2-5 gallon buckets of some liquid into the pool.  i'm guessing this wasn't all becuase a snickers bar was floating in it.

i had a hard time swiming yesterday knowing that's how they clean up after a kid drops a shadoobie in the pool, especially knowing that the lap pool gets all the crowd overflow from the kiddy pool.  no telling what is lingering in that water.

Was in the sauna the other day, yes I know no story that starts that way ends well, and old naked guy comes in.  No towel, just his toiletries.  Not a problem.  So once he's sweating good he lathers up with soap.  All of him.  Odd but I can deal.  He then proceeds to start doing crunches.  REALLY!?!?!?!  So I then decide I'm out.  Very odd. 

im constantly being kicked out of my lane because there are so many other activities that they fill the pool up with. Totally over booked! Lap swimmers are second class at my local Y.

They change the lane schedule on a daily basis depending on how many people show up for the activities they are making a profit on..... arrrggggggggg

constantly having to move pool nooodles and kick boards out of my lane, and the other day almost clocked a kick mid swim because the life guard told him it was ok to cross my lane!!

My lifetime fitness is becoming like that.  4 days a week from 6 pm to 8 pm its all water aerobics, master swim and private lessons.  Half the time there are no lessons but they always take the lanes for it.  Worse part there are a few moments after 7 when there are a  a couple of lanes free 2 days a week but you have to watch out since a lot of parents use that in my I will sit in the lane while my kids are getting a lesson and really not do anything except a length every 5 to 6 minutes.

I was an exchange student to Finland. Its very common for people there to have shower stalls in the Sauna and to lather and rinse there, some are immediately outside the door some inside.  The squats, well thats new and different but the soaping up... well at least he smelled nice.

Well, look at it this way - a rare opportunity to get an element of OWS in your pool workout.

Around 20 years ago I lived in Minneapolis. At the Uptown YWCA it was always a great to sit in the sauna during the winter (this is a same sex sauna within the women's locker room.) Most people were very modest, in towels or bathings suits. Most folks also sat on the "upper deck" of the sauna two level seating.<p>

One day, after a workout, I went into the sauna discretely covered in two towels and with a towel to place on the bench. I took my seat on the top row toward the center and on the far left was an elderly woman in a towel and on the far right two teen-aged girls in bathing suits. After a few minutes a woman, perhaps in her late 40s, came in wearing a towel. She whipped off the towel, laid it down on the lower level seating and lay down, legs akimbo. The elderly lady, the teenagers, and I all exchanged the "What the heck?!" look and then politely looked elsewhere. A few minutes later the nude recliner started to uhm...err... "let her fingers do the walking."<p>

I was all of 21 years old and had never experienced anything like that in my life. Voice shaking, I said, "That is inapppropriate, please leave." She said, "you need to mind your own business" and at that point, I went to the front desk, still in my towels. There were two desk personnel, a guy and a gal each around 18 years old. I quickly mentioned what happened and the guy, with a big grin, says to the girl, "This one is yours."I went back and took a shower only to see the police waiting outside the locker room when I left.<p>

I now live in California and most of what I see are:

- elderly Asian women blowing drying their ladyscapes<br>

- elderly folks of all ethnicities bobbing and gabbing in the lap swim lanes<br>

- elderly guys sitting in the communal hot tub for what seems like hours, usually wearing "trunks" that suscipiciously look like boxers and are semi-transparent.

You went to the gym with 3 towels?  Goodness.

"You went to the gym with 3 towels?  Goodness."

No, just two - the third one was from the Y ;-)

Wow.  Just wow.  I would have stuck around to see the look on her face when she saw the police. 

Had to resurrect this old thread due to a new experience I had this morning.

At my LTF here's a shower by the pool for people to rinse off before/after their swim.  So Today I hit the pool about 90 minutes after I usually do and I'm swimming away,  I take a break between sets and look up.  There's a guy in the shower with his swim trunks on soaped down from head to toe taking a full shower.  No big deal I guess, but I thought it was a little weird to be taking a full shower with your trunks on in front of everyone.  Well a few laps later I look up and he's drying off and holds his towel in his mouth and removes the trunks and proceeds to wrap the towel around himself.  I think he thought he was being discreet, but he was pretty much hanging all out there.  I'm pretty sure I witnessed a crime because I believe it's quite illegal to expose your junk in a public shower.  <facepalm>
I told my wife about it and she said he's there every day and does the same thing.

Im thankful I don't have to deal with any of this :D