The Locker Room

I work out at The Rush Fitness Complex.

I have for over a year.

My boss told me several months ago that she joined The Rush.

I’ve never seen her there.

Until last week.

Last week was where my gym experience went downhill!  

This was my gym experience last Wednesday.

Savannah and I got to the gym at our normal time. We went to the locker room, because I always have to change out of my work clothes. When I got in the locker room, I saw my boss. She had already changed clothes in the bathroom and was putting her bag in a locker. We chatted up some small talk. Truthfully, I was stalling, hoping that she would leave before I had to change. I know it may seem silly, but I really didn’t want to drop my drawers in front of my boss.

I rummaged through my bag, pulled out my water bottle, grabbed my socks, took out my clothes and shoes, and stalled. I went ahead and changed my socks while we talked thinking that would buy me a little more time. She finally walked out, and I took that moment to change my pants.

Bad idea…Just as I had dropped my pants and reached for my shorts, she came back around the corner to get something. Ugh! My boss just saw me without pants on!

In a normal person’s life, that would have been the end of it…but not in my life. I never get away with things that easily!

As soon as I pulled my shirt off, a lady at the water fountain turned around and said, “Don’t you work up at North Greenville?”  Why, yes, yes, I do. She told me she was one of the ladies that works at a neighboring doctor’s office. I have only met her a few times, but talk to her on the phone almost every week. And there I was with no shirt on.

She, of course, did not just want to say “Hello” and move on. She wanted to ask about work and how long I had been going to the gym and how my day was and on and on and on. It was so uncomfortable that I picked up my shirt to hold in an attempt to cover myself while we talked. When she finally left, I finished changing clothes…embarrassed…and just ready to go home instead of walking out into the gym to face everyone.

I change in that locker room almost every time I go to the gym. Multiple people have passed by when I was changing. I have passed by plenty of others while they were changing. That doesn’t bother me. What bothered me that day was it was my BOSS and CO-WORKER (well,kind of). I’m not embarrassed to change my clothes in front of other people. I’ve done that my whole life – sisters, friends, teammates, roommates, etc. I just don’t want my boss to be thinking about my naked legs and big butt when she is doing my annual evaluation! I don’t want this girl to think about my uppers when we are talking on the phone about patients! Talk about UNCOMFORABLE!!!!

Oh yeah, and Savannah had gone out to the car to get something, so she missed the whole thing and was not there to bail me out at all! Me and my unclothedness had to face them all alone!!

Yep, that’s the kind of stuff that happens to me! Aren’t you jealous?!