I don't mind changing in a locker room. I don't walk around naked, but I'm not so shy that I have to have a towel covering me at all times. There is respected anonymity in a locker room; people don't look at you, and you don't look at them. It's not a place where there is judgment or where you should strut your stuff.
HOWEVER...when I run into someone I know, this whole 'I'm cool with being naked in public' attitude flips on its head.
How do you handle running into your flute student in a locker room? I need to get out of my sweaty clothes and into some not-as-stinky jeans, but I'm not going to change in front of a high school girl that I teach flute lessons in her living room every Tuesday afternoon.
It's bad enough to see people from my spinning classes in there, but that's inevitable, and I've gotten over it.
And around friends, it's also not an issue...like I said, being overly modest is not a problem I have.
But, it seems that my flute student has swim team practice every Thursday night at the same time that I teach spinning...so I will continue to see her in there, every week.
Do I resort to the change-in-the-bathroom-stall game, or do I just quickly change and close my eyes, thinking that if I can't see her, she can't see me?
Neither so-called solutions really solve the problem. I suppose I'll just try to get in there and change before she gets out of practice and hope to avoid the situation altogether...and probably get caught completely naked as a whole team of high school girl swimmers comes flooding into the locker room.
As a side note, these girls were today complaining/shouting (because all conversations in high school are apparently carried out at top volume) about not being able to break 58 seconds for a 100m free. Poor things, eh? I can't even imagine swimming that speed; my insides might implode from traveling so fast.
In any case, locker rooms are just kind of funny because I can't imagine that anyone feels totally comfortable in them, yet everyone is pretending they are.
If I weren't in the midst of it, I'd laugh hysterically.
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You could just laugh hysterically like you suggested - it would solve both problems. Everyone would think you're crazy and run away, thus leaving the locker room to just you.
well if your chatting with her you can pull the.. I gotta go use the bathroom, I'll see you at Flute lesson.. or I like just getting in there before swim team and changing..
Just put your pants/shorts on first as Id imagine it would less uncomfortating to change tops/shirts.. imo..
good luck with that..
damn 58/100m! hell ya I would be moving!
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I was just thinking similar thoughts yesterday about the locker room. I feel WAY more comfortable than I did in junior high school, but still. I suppose you could get good at changing under a towel. Good news is that she is used to being around naked ladies. Good luck!
If I could break 2 minutes in 100 meters I would be ecstatic! Damn that is fast!
oh man, awkward! i'd go with the whole, if i can't see her, maybe she can't see me thing ... that, or get dressed really, really fast before she gets in there. then again, you could always just drive home all sweaty & shower/change at home. avoid the situation all together.
I know the opposite awkwardness in reverse. When I was in high school I went to the YMCA and bumped into my English teacher IN the shower. That said, I'll have to say I was as awkwarded out as she was, and I certainly didnt stare, and certainly avoided changing near her in the future. I'd say change quickly, if she recognizes you its a nod hello moment (at most), and itll be ok. If she swims she must be ok with locker rooms, and probably isnt in the mood to hang out next to her naked flute teacher. Just my perspective
I'd do the quick change thing and see how it goes.
I guess I'm lucky that my YMCA has a locker room for only 18 and older.
Good luck.
I say just flaunt your assests. That's what i do. whether i have something to flaunt or not.
was that TMI? I dunno. haha!
I am personally not the type to walk around naked around my house and even feel a bit self conscious wearing tri tops. Self esteem issues I suppose.
But after being in my line of work for over a decade, I have been in a locker room almost every dang day of it. Nothing phases me in there.
You could turn the table on her and approach her while she's naked or stepping into her panties about how she needs to work on the Bach or her trills.
That is hilarious and you are soooo right!! In my backwards neck of the woods, most people keep very covered up all the time in the locker room, and some do the bathroom stall thing. I tried to stay covered up with a towel until I continued to drop it every time and finally gave up - but I'm like you, I dont' walk around naked.
Then I started going to swim class in Nashville, and found that these women will stand there buck-Naked, walk around buck-Naked, and try to carry on a conversation with you while you are both buck-Naked!! The first time it happened to me I know that women thought I was crazy - I was trying not to look at her, but she was talking to me, damnit, and I couldn't figure out where to look! It was awful!!! I still say that's just wrong.
Anyways - I say go for the change really fast and close your eyes...maybe you'll get used to her just like your spin class students.
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