Last night, I headed over to the YMCA for my shower alone. I actually called my husband at work and requested he leave early to come home and relieve me from my post as caretaker of our children. It was just a lot yesterday. Construction men were here through dinner time, the kids kept trying to go upstairs (where the bathroom is) and the kids kept asking things like, "Is the bathroom done yet?" or "Is it 4 o'clock yet?" (at 4 o'clock they get to watch TV so I can make dinner), just a really annoying situation. Did I mention it has been raining non stop for.... EVER!?
Alone at the YMCA means I can go to the Women's locker room (no kids allowed). Its so nice to have a real hairdryer at the ready next to the mirror and the sauna room, I love! I actually decided last night that if offered a sauna room for my house I would take that over a pool any day of the week. Headed up to the fitness room and worked out on the elliptical. I was on it 45 minutes and wishing I could've stayed on longer. Head to the Women's locker room for some sauna time and then shower.
Now, I know when in certain situations it should not be at all startling to see a naked person, for example in a locker room. I can not help it, I was startled to come out of the shower area (towel wrapped around me snuggly) and saw this old lady completely nude outside the sauna. Whoa! No, I didn't say that out loud. I quickly averted my eyes and went to my locker. Well, doesn't the nude old lady come out right behind me. Guess where her locker is? Right next to mine!!! There's like, oh, 200, no 300 empty lockers in the whole locker room! She is in the locker immediately next to me plus several others. What nerve to spread herself out like that! I am trying to quickly get dressed. The nude old lady actually went over to the scale and weighed herself and then went back to the sauna area. Hello!! Get a towel already! At this point, I am rushing because I want to get out of there before she comes back. A new person walks in to the locker room and I happened to look up right as she got to the doorway of the restroom/sauna area. New person stopped DEAD in her tracks! She was startled too!! ha! She looked back as if she was assessing whether to head back out of the locker room or do what ever she needed to do despite naked old lady. She opted to proceed despite naked old lady.
I was laughing telling my husband about this last night and then I realized I know this naked old lady!! There's an old lady who runs around our neighborhood in the warm weather wearing a house coat and sneakers. Whenever I see her I think, "Whoa! Did her kitchen just catch on fire?!" That's exactly what it looks like, a 70 year old lady running rather fast for an old lady in a house coat-moo moo dress. Anyway, going forward I will now refer to her as the naked old lady whose kitchen is on fire.
CORRECTION: There are only 78 lockers in the Women's locker room, not 300 lockers.
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