Correct anger

[Oggiedoggie]

Uniting two themes of this thread, I’m frequently irritated by folks who leave their car parked at the gas pump while they go inside to use the restroom, get food or shop for stuff you can only find at out-of-the-way convenience stores. Sometimes I’ll pull into a four or six pump station and find every spot occupied by vehicle just sitting there while the drivers are inside. I realize I might be one of the few remaining drivers who fill the tank, then park in front of the store to go in.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

I do it on a case-by-case basis. I typically fill up at the 8-pump stop between my house and work, and if there no other cars there, or only 1 or 2, and I'm just going in to grab a drink or take a ****, I'll leave my car at the pump. If it's more crowded than that at the pumps, then I'll fill up, pull into a parking space and do my business.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Counter-counterpoint -- Where did this trend start of spitting over your **** at the urinal?

 

[justgladtobehere]

Years into adulthood, my brothers and I started talking about how insane it was that all the boys swam in the buff at the YMCA after soccer or basketball practice. The coaches or counselors were around and maybe even swam, too. I have no recollection of anything bad happening, but it's still ****ed up.

I'm still processing the weekly 'bath' I had to take at overnight camp.
Sunday morning all the campers lined up by the lake with just a towel. Walked into a shed where the head counselors watched as you dropped the towel so they could check for any rashes or bad bites. Then it was a naked bath in the lake with all the other campers.

 

[rtse11]

I'm still processing the weekly 'bath' I had to take at overnight camp.
Sunday morning all the campers lined up by the lake with just a towel. Walked into a shed where the head counselors watched as you dropped the towel so they could check for any rashes or bad bites. Then it was a naked bath in the lake with all the other campers.

Soooo ... they worried about rashes or bites before the swim, but not the gazillion insects and whatnot that inhabit the lake?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Counter-counterpoint -- Where did this trend start of spitting over your **** at the urinal?

1973.

Oh you weren't asking about me.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

I work in a large, corporate setting.

The number of people I've seen use the facilities (even to go No. 2) and then just nonchalantly walk out without even looking at the sink, is disheartening. If you want to be gross, that's fine. But when others are in the bathroom, at least go over and pretend to wash your hands.

Have a funny feeling this is primarily a male situation.

 

[SixToe]

What's the correct level of anger for the old guys who insist on walking around in the men's locker room totally naked?

None. It's a locker room. Just part of the deal.

Now, if it was the dressing room area at Belk we'd have a big problem

 

[SixToe]

Counter-counterpoint -- Where did this trend start of spitting over your **** at the urinal?

I've always wondered about this, too. I think it's a weird territory-marking impulse emerging from the mini-micro sliver of Neanderthal DNA still in our genetic makeup.

"Ha, this is MY urinal!"

/untilthenextguystepsup/

 

[MTM]

I work in a large, corporate setting.

The number of people I've seen use the facilities (even to go No. 2) and then just nonchalantly walk out without even looking at the sink, is disheartening. If you want to be gross, that's fine. But when others are in the bathroom, at least go over and pretend to wash your hands.

Have a funny feeling this is primarily a male situation.

I was at a work event Saturday and pissed next to a former coworker. It was a rare time we actually spoke while peeing (but no peeking). I finished a bit ahead of him and went to the sink. He walked right out the door. Changed my opinion of him.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I once snuck into a bathroom a few strides ahead of Stan Kroenke, whose security goons always try to ensure he pisses or ****s in an empty bathroom. Imagine being so **** you rich that you can kick people out of bathrooms. Anyway, I didn't stick around to see if Stan washes up, but I assume he doesn't and that he has people do it for him.

 

[ChrisLong]

The Dodgers had a clubhouse rule -- seldom enforced -- that they had to cover up going through the food line. (Vision of Pedro Guerrero dragging his crank through the cole slaw.) Jerry Reuss would shout out, "A lot of dicks hang out in this clubhouse."

 

[micropolitan guy]

My dad was the vice-principal at my high school, so I went to school with him every day, about an hour or so before classes started. I just went down to the boys locker room and took my morning shower, nice and private, and was fresh as a daisy for school.

Or I have gym class first period, then shower afterward and again be nice and clean for the rest of the day. My senior year at college I delivered papers on campus at 6, then cleaned up in the rec center locker room, hit the dining hall and then my 8:15 classes. Gotta have my morning shower.

MTM, you totally nailed the shower protocol at my club.

And Oggie, you nailed one of my pet peeves. When we road-trip, I fill up the car while Mrs. Micro goes into the store to do whatever she has to do. Then I move the car to a parking spot, by that time she's outside to take the dog for a spin while I use the store. Easy-peasy.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

I once snuck into a bathroom a few strides ahead of Stan Kroenke, whose security goons always try to ensure he pisses or ****s in an empty bathroom. Imagine being so **** you rich that you can kick people out of bathrooms. Anyway, I didn't stick around to see if Stan washes up, but I assume he doesn't and that he has people do it for him.

Aside from Eskimo Joe's, one of the other things I really enjoyed about covering football at Oklahoma State was the bathrooms. Not sure if this is the case or an old wives tale, but was told the reason they are so nice and so clean all the time is because those are the bathrooms that T. Boone Pickens would use.

 

[OscarMadison]

[nerd] It's been argued that Neanderthals gave us art, music, dance, adornment, funeral rituals, storytelling, and the concept of cooked food. I'm a fan. Homo sapien sapiens? Scandinavian Death Metal. Thongs. Pull tabs on almond milk cartons. Nipples on Batman.



[/nerd]

 

[Roscablo]

Several themes on this thread:

A few weeks ago I was driving in an area where a left turn lane onto a very busy major road that has an interstate on ramp about a block after the turn does not have the best flow for staying in the lanes off the turn or getting to the merge if you need to. Most people who go to the interstate know what lane they need to be in (causing a huge back up most of the time in that turn lane) but plenty don't. Plus, it sucks even if you just head straight, and I always go straight because it is where I live. I have been in more than one close call from people not figuring it out.

Anyway, a guy comes blasting through three lanes of traffic to hit that on ramp. No way he didn't know what he was doing, almost hit me, did have his turn signal on though, which obviously makes it OK. I honked at him and he flipped me off. Then rolled down the window and kept the bird raised as long as I could see him, well onto the on ramp. When he was clearly in the wrong. I don't think it has ever stuck with me so much when someone else got mad at me when they were totally at fault. I guess he was just telling me to **** off instead of **** you, which would fit from him having to know what he did, but it was weird.

My gym used to have the all-welcoming showers but got rid of them with a remodel. I honestly didn't care that much if I needed to shower, just did it and moved on. Definitely tons of naked old dudes there. I don't mind changing in front of a locker, but I am not walking around naked. And it has happened plenty where the locker room is empty and someone plops into a locker right next to mine. I will never get it. It almost has to be a force of habit spot or something.

My middle school and high school both had open showers, but I never remember anyone using them (and this was the 90s). There was no rule we had to, and as someone else said, there was no time anyway. After sports everyone just went home. I did have a moment of anxiety before middle school gym started that we had to shower, but that was for naught.

 

[I Should Coco]

Besides naked old dudes in the shower, the YMCA in suburban Chicago where I swam as a kid had a sauna in the men's locker room. Went in there once as some naked old-timers were leaving ... and let's just say you could see the outlines of "cheeks" on the wooden benches.

Use a towel, people!

 

[Neutral Corner]

Have a funny feeling this is primarily a male situation.

"Didn't your mama teach you to wash your hands after you go to the bathroom?"

"Nah, my daddy taught me not to pee on my fingers."

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Gym locker room nudity expected to some extent. It is a locker room.

I draw the line when there was a naked dude with one leg hiked up on a communal bench shaving his bush and scrote. And without a towel or can to catch the pubes.

Manscape in private, bro.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Gym locker room nudity expected to some extent. It is a locker room.

I draw the line when there was a naked dude with one leg hiked up on a communal bench shaving his bush and scrote. And without a towel or can to catch the pubes.

Manscape in private, bro.

Sorry but it's my locker room too.