Naked old ladies

I have been very happy with my decision to join another gym in the area ( please see previous blogs) however, with everything there are some downfalls to the new gym as well. I have decided to write briefly about some of the ones that have bothered me the most:


1. Now i am the first to admit that I am not only a prude when it comes to (public/semi public) nudity, but probably just scared of it all together, and it being an uncomfortable situation. You would NEVER catch me walking around naked anywhere, especially in a locker room. Those of you that know me know that when i had Jordan I was OCD about giving birth. I was so concerned with people seeing my vag that I literally obsessed about it from the time that i peed on the stick and found out that I was pregnant. The videos that are shown in Lamaze class only heightened my fear because the women were completely naked ( i still ha vent figured out why- obviously you have be naked form the waist down but these women were national geographic naked) while giving birth.

Those of you that have known me even longer know that when i got my gallbladder out i cried to the surgeon in my pre op consultation and begged him to allow me to wear underwear into the operating room. For some reason ( he is a very very nice man) he agreed, and allowed it. All that I care about was that they( the underwear) were on my ass when i went into the operating room, and still on my ass when i woke up after. So weather or not they stayed on the whole time i don't really care- but in my head they were on the ENTIRE time, and I do not wish to hear otherwise.

Now back to to the locker room, these women just strip down and go about their business and do not care who is there or what else is going on. Good for them i guess, but i really have no desire to see granny walking around with her saggy boobies and putting on her hanes her way white granny underwear. I am 29 years old and have had 2 children and should be able to handle this, but im sorry to say that I cant.....I can handle a lot and i can be mature and adult on a day to day basis when I have to be, unfortunately this is not one of those things that I can be a grown up about..... It was so bad today that I looked up to ask Jamie a question at the other end of the bench in our locker cluster and had to look down immediately before completely losing it and laughing(out loud) in the lady's face. I guess good for you that you are so comfortable with yourself that you can walk around like that.

2. There are 4 regular sized showers in the locker room and 1 handicapped shower. I got into the last available shower and realized that I had forgotten my soap in my bag. So i left all of my things in a plastic bag hanging int he outer room of the shower stall and ran back to my locker ( with a towel on of course) to grab my soap. I also closed the shower curtain which i thought would deter anyone form using my shower ( its not like there was line or anything) and the handicapped shower was still available. well in the 30 seconds that it took me to get the soap, my shower was poached from me. I actually went to go get back in and saw someone through the crack of the curtain, and then looked down to the floor and saw my plastic bag on the floor with all of my things in it. Boy was i pissed, however, being the confrontational person that I am i just stood there in a towel waiting for another shower to open up. I was really pissed though. When I told Jamie about it after the shower, she said that i should have said something i just pictured myself going back there(with my soap) and ripping the curtain open and screaming at the lady that this was my shower and my turn. However that would never happen, because i have no balls and would be scared that i would be asked to leave the gym and never return again.......

3. The showers all drain into a little river and go to a drain at the end of the shower row. Now because i had my shower stolen away I wound up in the last shower where all of the water drains to. I looked down and there was so much hair in that drain i wanted to puke, i really feel bad for the person its job it is to clean that drain. it was really gross.....

4. You can only leave your child in childcare for 90 minutes. This was never an issue at my old gym because all i did was work out and then i was done got jack and went home to try to take a shower and hope that he didn't wake up, but here there is so much more to do, after i attempt to do my cardio ( these machines are hard core and are going to take some getting used to) i then like to walk on the track for a while, and then go in the steam room, take a shower, get dressed do my hair, and makeup. Now forget about doing a class as well. That's a lot to do in 90 minutes and even really humanly possible. I feel like if i don't use the childcare for one of the days during the week they should credit my 90 minutes to another day, or spread it out over the next few days. And what if someone had 3 kids and they each get 90 minutes a day, and really i only bring jack (except for Tuesdays when I bring Jordan) I should be credited her 90 minutes as well. I know that this isn't realistic and that i could really spend like 5 hours at the gym ad that wouldn't be fair to the child care people, but i can dream can't i???

Overall, i think that i am going to be able to deal with these small issues but they seem so major while happening. However, all i have to remember is how AMAZING and relaxing the steam room is ( with the eucalyptus scent) is that it makes it all worth it. Is it wrong to go the gym just to go in the steam room and take a shower without screaming kids? Because don't think that i haven't thought about it......

P.S.- Sorry that I have no picture to share with this post, however i don't think that it would be appropriate for this post, and i would rather not get escorted out of the gym ( and on the 5:00 news) for taking nude pics of granny in the locker room........