Communal showers at work.

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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    I hated having to shower after PE at school because of the communial showers. I still refuse to use them even now. The good chap even with being the confident type also gets freeked out by the possiblity of using communial showers, but mostly because of the fact that when he was at school (public school at that) he was bullied for the fact that he has a birthmark in a sensitive area. Even now and even after years in the Navy the only way you would get him into a communial shower with anyone else is after a few drinks!
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    I wouldn't worry about it.

    We have (had) a similar issue at work in that we get (got) massively subsidised membership of the gym in the same building, so at lunchtime it wasn't unusual to run into colleagues in the changing rooms, where nudity is kind of tricky to avoid. Not impossible, I grant you.

    Sure, it was always uncomfortable at first, but we all got over it. Talk to the face. THE FACE.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Mmm interesting I hadn't considered this, which I should because my company is in the process of building a gym in the basement.

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  • The Chingford Skinhead
    The Chingford Skinhead Posts: 718
    Understand why you might feel uncomfortable but frankly why should you go to the rubbish shower just because someone else is in the communal shower. If HE doesn't want anyone in the shower with him then he could have gone and used the rubbish shower. If he chooses not to then he runs the risk of someone else wanting enough shower power to wash the soap off rather than just enough to make it wet. If He's that worried then presumably he'll go to the far left / right shower and you'll use the opposite one.
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  • snig
    snig Posts: 428
    think of it this way,if he didnt want to share the shower why would he have got into it,if anyone gets into a shared shower you know someone will/might get in too,I think asking if minded you getting in will cause more of a "fuss" than just using it.you dont ask the other person in a shared shower if they mind you using it,that would be just strange.
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    fidbod wrote:
    Its been said already but MTFU!

    +1

    I don't think that you should ask the other person anything. They are communal showers. If they are uncomfortable, they should use the dribbly shower, rather than using the communal one - its their problem.

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  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    itboffin wrote:

    lunges anyone?

    :roll:

    Now this is a different issue - I was visiting a health club as a guest, and some guy was using the hairdryer to dry between his toes - fair enough, keep the athletes foot at bay.

    However, to do this he had put his foot up on the waist level shelf where the dryers are - whilst stark b0ll0ck naked...... (insert emoticon for "i didn't know where to look....") :oops:

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  • Aguila
    Aguila Posts: 622
    snig wrote:
    think of it this way,if he didnt want to share the shower why would he have got into it,if anyone gets into a shared shower you know someone will/might get in too,I think asking if minded you getting in will cause more of a "fuss" than just using it.you dont ask the other person in a shared shower if they mind you using it,that would be just strange.

    This is a good point. I shall continue to go with shower quality over discomfort! Reassured that most people feel the same. No doubt as soon as winter arrives I'll be the only one still riding in anyway!
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  • Stuey01
    Stuey01 Posts: 1,273
    Was he winking at you with his brown eye?
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  • amnezia
    amnezia Posts: 590
    erm... MTFU!!
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    NGale wrote:
    even after years in the Navy the only way you would get him into a communial shower with anyone else is after a few drinks!

    Ah, the navy. What happens at sea stays at sea, eh.
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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    biondino wrote:
    NGale wrote:
    even after years in the Navy the only way you would get him into a communial shower with anyone else is after a few drinks!

    Ah, the navy. What happens at sea stays at sea, eh.

    Indeed. that's the story he gives me and he's sticking to it :lol:

    By all rights with the public school education and RN service he should be a screaming queen anyway :lol:
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  • ratherbeintobago
    ratherbeintobago Posts: 636
    NGale wrote:
    By all rights with the...RN service he should be a screaming queen anyway :lol:

    Oy!

    I think the words you are looking for are 'legal but not compulsory'... :-P

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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    ratherbeintobago wrote:
    NGale wrote:
    By all rights with the...RN service he should be a screaming queen anyway :lol:

    Oy!

    I think the words you are looking for are 'legal but not compulsory'... :-P

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    :lol:

    I take great delight in winding him up with that one anyway. He's straight that's for sure :wink:
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