This next comment might not be very nice of me, but so be it...I can't stand it anymore. I am sick of seeing naked old ladies!! There I said it, but let me explain. Monday, Wednesday and Friday I go to the gym a little later than I would prefer. 10 am. Hayden likes to go to Kid Fit, and it starts at 10. That's cool, spinning starts at 10 too. But here is the problem. There is a group of elderly people that work out at my gym, they belong to the Silver Sneakers club. They have special classes in one of the studios and special swimming classes for them(all ending at about 9:45). They really are very cute, dressed! The problem is, they are very comfortable all naked. Naked is fine. But these guys are naked, wet, not very flexible, and very comfortable with BEING naked. I am a very private naked person, especially at the gym. There is this one largish lady in particular, that sits, NAKED on a bench...there might be a towel down there, but I can't be certain, and I'm not looking too close!! Anyway, she sits naked on the bench (like I already mentioned). I have seen her ask people to help her get her bra on! I'm not certain what I would say or do if that "opportunity" arose for me. So, I'm already sort of freaky about those benches at the gym, I always have been...this just makes matter worse for me!! If you are a naked bench sitter at the gym, you should be ashamed of yourself. Please, change your ways :)
Moving on...I love"d" my book club. I moved so I'm no longer attending said book club. I want to start up a new one here. I was asking around at Enrichment last night if there is a book club. I guess there used to be one, but nobody wanted to head it up and it fizzled. There is ONE book club that still meets, that is super exclusive. I don't even know who attends. OHHH. How I hate super exclusive book clubs. I was talking to this one girl and asked her about book club. She said she'd go to a book club as long as we don't pick super snotty books and we are not super exclusive. The next lady I talked to, asked me if I had ever heard of Jodi Piccoult. Oh boy. I like Jodi, but...come on...let's not build our whole book club on her!! Sarah and I started a book club back in TX 10 years ago, and it was easy. At the time, everybody was new (just moving in to the ward). I'm not so sure about here though, it doesn't seem so easy. So, I don't want to read trash, but I don't want people to think we are all about super snotty books either. I want people to stretch, but I don't want to scare people off. Maybe I should wait a little while and not be the "new girl trying to change everything up". What do you think?
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gross! That is SO awkward when you walk into the locker room and there are naked old ladies getting dressed. You can't help but look, then look away. I guess when you get to their age, it doesn't matter anymore.
I think you definitely have to start with accessible books that people feel comfortable reading and discussing. Then, once you have a core group of participators, you can nudge up the quality little by little. I'm fairly certain this is what happened with our Lakewood book club (we just didn't realize it at the time). And it's been going so long that they are now open to bigger and better things. I've been involved with two other book clubs since then and it's always the same story, "We don't want anything too hard." They really do...you just have to show them the path. Baby steps.
I am with you! Ew! I was on the swim team in highschool and our wrinkly old female coach would could come in and strip down right in front of us. If anyone asks you to help strap on their bra you just pretend you didn't hear them.
You will have to be a little trend setter out there and get a new book club going.
That's got to be so uncomfortable with the naked old people in the locker room. Glad that they're so comfortable in their own skin, but still the locker room is to get changed in not sitting around all nekkid for others.
I don't get it. The old people at the gym are the same way they walk around like that FOREVER. Please put your clothes on quickly. Mu hubby tells me the old men are worse.
I have to say that I am probably an 'old' person -- and I would never sit around naked in any gym. Yuk. I have to say that even at 'their age' (which I probably am) it still matters to me.
oh my gravy! fat geriatic nudity!? holy crap. sorry you have to partake in that nastiness!
i would wait it out a little with the book club. maybe the person you talked who said the "super exclusive" group just isn't much of a reader and that group might actually be right up your alley. or maybe you can start something new and find a happy medium between fluff and "snooty" books, ha!
I read an article in a travel magazine once about naked cruises. It said the proper etiquette when sitting on a chair/bench/stool is to place a hand towel down first. I am sure the same applies at the gym. Maybe you could inform her of the rules:) On the subject of the Book Club...I am stuck over here in Holland so my vote is for you to start an online book club. What do you think?
I think this MAY just be the Northwest. I remember when my family first moved up and we joined Cascade gym - I saw WAY more naked (and old also) people than I've ever wanted to see. They'd all then get in the whirlpool together. Yeesh. Granted I'd rather see old ladies than old men. I'll let THAT image be a surprise for me when I get there in life.
The naked old ladies cracks me up! Have fun trying to get out of doing her bra for her ;) And good luck with the book club too. There are a few here but I haven't gotten in to them because of time constraints.
I say try to join that super exclusive book club and at the same time, go ahead and start one of your own with our old way of picking the book the month you host - so that way, you can get a deeper book in there when you host. As for the naked thing - I'm a naked girl. I love being naked. I don't mind or look when other people are, and I just assume that when someone naked is sitting on a bench, OF COURSE she is sitting on a towel because the alternative is unbearable to think about. I come from a naked family and now live in a naked family. We sleep naked lots of the time and walk around a bit as well, which is why I don't like the sleepovers so much, cause then I have to make sure I'm proper before I leave my bedroom. And help that poor woman with her bra! She is old. Imagine she's your Mom...or you in forty years:)
Old Naked people is soooo wrong. Especially old naked bench sitters. Holy Mackerel. I do not think anybody's china should touch public furniture/property...Heather, you crack me up.
No help with the naked old people. I am not a naked young person, so I really don't get it. As far as book club, I'd personally give it a little time. And then start one.
We have an exclusive book club that I actually help start up about 20 years ago but I stopped going long ago. It was not exclusive when it was started but I hear now you really have to get an invite to attend. You are new in Portland area, just find out who is in it and ask if you can join. What can they say but no and you might be surprised.
No nakey on the benches, please. How gross is that. In my gym you have to spray/wipe your machine down that you use even though you have gym clothes on.
Sorry you have to see the whole naked lady thing...ewww!
Wish we lived closer, sounds like we could start our own little book club. I started one a few years ago when I moved into my new house...that was a disaster, no one ever read the books! Good luck with it.
50 years from now, i'm going to be a naked old person. but in the decency of my own home. see, i doubt that in 50 years i'll go to the gym then, if i don't go now ;)
'bout the bookclub - i don't know what to tell you, other than don't make it a church thing. mo's tend to be a little puritanical in their choices. sorry if that offends anyone. heather, you can delete this if you don't like it ;)
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