AIBU - Kids in gym changing area / showers...

Since this crazy thread seems to be full of random interjections, here's mine: My LA Pool/gym has a single communal changing area for swimmers, with 5 or 6 shower heads in a row leading toa single drainage hole. There are also two cubicle showers which drain into the same drainage hole. You could shower naked in the cubicles, but not get dressed as there's not enough room. The gym has a further two enclosed shower/changing rooms. That's it.

My question is, do people really wander around your gym changing rooms in the nude? At our pool/gym I've never seen anyone strip off in the changing rooms, and I certainly don;t, neither do my children. They have their showers wth their costumes still on. Does that make me weird? Should I be stripping my 7 year old off to have a shower in full view of everyone?

Confused of Norfolk.

Well, yes, I would actually. My son is king of the inappropriate dumps, and there is no way on earth I would shower his poo off in a communal shower. How revolting. I would have carried him rugby ball style to the changing rooms, red faced with embarrassment, apologising to everyone there and cleaned him up with baby wipes, crying or no crying. Sorry, I just don't think it's acceptable to inflict a baby's waste on other people, and believe me, I've been in similar situations.

This has to be one of the oddest threads on Hitched in ages ?

The funniest thing is, most people are actually arguing the same point (I think).....

I may be completely wrong here but is pjama a troll? Or does she just post to have a go at certain Hitchers? I have a crap memory when it comes to this sort of thing.

FWIW the wee thing is forgivable and totally understandable in certain circumstances, and of course families should use whatever showers are available but there is no way anyone should be expected to accept baby crap in a communal shower. How anyone can find that acceptable is beyond me. I wonder if the people defending that particular mother would feel the same if an adult crapped in the shower (accidentally) ? Is it different if its a child/baby?

Well quite.

I've never got nekkid in the shower at a swimming pool, single sex changing or not. Am I totally odd?

Are you reading a totally different thread? No one is defending the sloppy poo in the shower. Gah you are annoying the hek out of me.

In ours they certainly do, see my other thread on that subject though. Our gym has male changing rooms and female changing rooms, there are changing sections for adults only if you want to be away from the children but they're only separated by a wall of lockers. The showers are separated by glass screens with shower curtains to the front and they all have separate draining plugholes. I strip off in the shower, behind the curtain, MissSun doesn't like showers so will stand just in front of the curtain and wait for me wrapped in a towel. Once I'm done and covered with a towel I take her and dry her off, dry myself off and get dressed. There are women who parade around in the nuddy whilst doing their hair and make up or moisturising. It doesn't bother me but I don't understand the need to do it.

Sorry ginni but "king of the inappropriate dump" really made me snigger very childishly ?

OK - toddler nappy changes at times can be a nightmare. Why on earth add the factor of said child being slippery and wet to the equation?! i can't imagine anything more hellish than trying to wrestle a toddler OUT of a pooey nappy, get them wet, sluice them off and clean them and then get them into a fresh nappy. Its like making nappy changing into some kind of hideous Takeshi's Castle-esque task!

If E pooed in her nappy she could survive in said pooey nappy for the 5 mins it would take me to finish showering, get dry to take her to change the nappy in the appropriate place. Shower plugholes are not designed for fecal matter!

why do you think everything is about you? you are without question the most self obsessed ejit on this board. You never seem to understand threads and take absolute pride in showing that. FFS. Go s*hit in a road.

<Eminem> Wowzers, I just made a mess in my trousers...

But the question is - removal in shower or not......

Sorry, but ? Hyacinth. Inspired.

Er where did that come from? Hit a nerve me thinks rotfl.

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<snort> If WM hit a nerve I think it was her last one.

In all seriousness WM, you seem to absolutely delight in an argument and will (deliberately or not) miss the point of what someone is saying despite explanations. I really don't understand it at all. (am ignoring pyjama who is clearly a nutjob)

I like a debate. I'm not arguing. It's because people don't like the fact that i don't agree with them that you always have to throw in the "It's always about you" card in every time. When exactly did i make it about me? I was saying didn't mind a bitta p1ss. I'm honestly not bothered by thingy's sweary outburst and everyone giggling over it like it's the most funny thing they've ever read. That in fact is funny. I find it hilarious that you're all getting het up about me and another who have an different view because i couldn't care less that some are getting all flowery about stepping in some pee. Much more serious things to be discusted over imo and abit of perpective on their part for once wouldn't hurt. I was anjoying the healthy friendly discussion until things started getting spiteful. By that i mean hyiawhatzit saying what i said was bolox and Sophie banning on about me sh1tting in a road. Cheap.

I agree the road thing is a cheap shot, but bloogy hell WM, read your comment back - it simply isn't true that no one ie defendng the poo thing. It realy sounds like you can't see past what you are saying yourself. People arguing against the pooey shower aren't disagreeing with you, but there are <gasp> other people besides you that may have made a different point to yourself. So getting frustrated with Hyacinth when wasn't arguing with you in the first place is ridiculous.

(I don't expect you to understand this point, because for some reason you have in the past accused me of having it in for you or similar, so it's not unfair to presume I find you a bit odd)

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WSS - and I still can't for the life of me work out why you'd share something like that anyway