…and your nudity at the gym….
So i’ve been hitting the gym for the past four months or so, not like I should but whatever, i have a membership and i’m there so that’s what’s important. In starting at this new gym, the first week (day really) I get there I notice that most of if not all of the patrons there are caucasion. Not that there’s a problem with this, i work with them, call them friends, even break bread with them.
But I’m coming from an all black gym for the most part in my native PG county where the music, the tv stations, and the people are different. It’s this last thing: the people being different, that i’m going to touch on. I don’t know if it’s a pre-programmed rule of thumb from birth, the particular gym I was going to, a respect thing or what but BLACK MEN (at the local gym) DON’T WALK AROUND IN THE LOCKER ROOM (with the exception to ball players) BUTT NAKED! I’m sorry, we don’t.
Now grant it, i’m not saying that during the course of your time between the shower, and your locker that you wont “be naked” but we don’t walk out of the shower, bare feat (i’m going to get to this too) air drying, strolling back to our lockers with the towel not where it should be, i’m sorry we don’t. This isn’t a movie with Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding, we aren’t teammates playing professional sports getting showered and ready to get back on the bus to head home, and it sure ’nuff isn’t an exhibition of some sort to show off to fellow members (no phun intended) of your gender.
It never fails that when i’m in there it’s usally me and one (literally, one) other brother who see the white guys proudly walking out of the showers naked, and bare in route to their lockers. We turn to eachother and shake our heads in non-verbal unison, noone wants to see that! Seriously, and if you are proud of what you’ve got, great for you but i’m a hetrorosexual man and I don’t enjoy seeing your junk, or pale ass as i’m getting ready for my workout, or ready to leave. Mom didn’t teach you to cover up? You aren’t at home buddy, you are in a public place, act like it.
What gets me more is that I can almost guarantee that if a female were to walk thru that locker room ALL of them would be covering up, making a big stink. Where as if I did shower at the gym (my house is <25min from the gym, i’ll be alright until then) that’s when i’d be the most comfortable with my nudity. So my point is, I’m not interested in seeing your parts swinging around the room, there’s nothing special going on down there, in fact why would you assume anyone will want to look at it? Please cover that ish up! I don’t want you standing/bending/walking next to me while i’m lacing up my shoe and then I look up and see *you*, and for the love of God don’t stop getting dressed in order to sit there and carry a conversation with me while you are naked.
PUT YOUR TOWEL ON!!!!
SignedÂ
-blprice a.k.a frustrated black man
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
laughing aside, that is one reason I dont like going to the gym, especially since the gym is at my job and I have to work with those people.
LMAO! This is the funniest shii I have heard. Ok maybe not for you, and I understand your frustration. What is it with these men? But while I was reading your blog, I couldn’t help but picture (what I could imagine) your face would look like! I was laughing so hard, and I’m sorry. Why did you change gyms?
That is just nasty. A pale white butt..yikes!
@Idab412: I changed gym’s because my job moved us 12miles west/southwest of where we were previously and nearly doubled my commute, meaning that I was too tired/lacked motivation to go to my regular gym — subsequently I made the wrong decision to join the “local gym” at the cost of my company.
@Brittney: 100% it is, somehow it’s ok with everyone else there though. Birds of a feather I suppose.
LMAO…. I am a female and I dont want to see any pale white ass so I feel ya pain… as a man that must be unbearable.
I dont even know why people take showers at the gym… if your going home why not just take a shower there… I never take showers at the gym… I walk my tail home those couple of blocks and do it at home… but I guess that’s just me
@EB: You have no idea really, it’s like I said in the post, they aren’t going to do that at ANY OTHER time under any other circumstances. So why is it “Ok” in a public place among members of your own gender?
Grant it, for those who have to return to work nd just came for a 30min calorie burn or maybe the c*ck diesel pretty boy that has to get the muscles primed before that Friday night date…then ok, that i understand. But to the rest of the people there (that 97.3%) it isn’t for them essential to take a shower AT THE GYM.
LOL! OK…I thought that the women where the only ones to do that!! lol!!
FYI…..Pluuuuuheaze put your towel on!!