To Avoid A Hoo-Ha

I didn't want to see it. I didn't ask to see it. I didn't even look at it on purpose. It's not something that I'm proud I saw. I didn't want to know. I would like to lose every memory of it. But it's still there, burning it's memory into my brain.

I would like to start with saying I don't understand why people walk around completely naked in the locker room. I mean it's one thing to be getting dressed and while you are getting dressed having some part of your body show for a split second that isn't usually showing. But to do the act of air drying or just outright hanging out in the locker room drinking a cup of coffee completely naked....NOT OKAY. Nobody wants to see it no matter who you are.

Today I was happily waltzing into triathlon training class into the locker room for the swimming pool. In the locker room there are three sections of lockers. I generally get dressed in the second section of lockers as it is more private since the first section of lockers are right where the path is to get to the showers and out to the pool. So I innocently walk into the locker room and standing there facing me completely naked is a girl I have thankfully never seen before. This girl was one of those people who were taking their time air drying, carrying on a full conversation with a what appeared to be 10-year-old boy (which I'm not sure how this is okay either. Don't they have to be under 2 or something to be in a locker room with people of opposite sex? This isn't Europe people. I don't want a little boy seeing me getting dressed in a locker room while he whines about his macaroni and cheese for lunch). She's strutting around completely naked (can I say naked any more?) with a very large piercing...in a very uncomfortable place....I believe the most mature word for the area that was pierced would be Hoo Ha. I was completely horrified. First of all that it was so large that I noticed because I don't generally find myself looking in that area on women and secondly that she thought that strutting around completely naked around myself and a 10-year-old boy was completely okay. I'm not okay with this. At all. This behavior should be against the conduct of locker rooms all over the world.

Why would someone pierce that? This of course is a rhetorical question as I don't want to get literal answers from people commenting back. I just plain don't want to know. It wasn't attractive. It was horrifying. Where do people go to have this done? I mean can you walk into Claires or Silver Safari and get the piercing for free when you buy a pair of earrings? I just don't know. I hope I never experience that five seconds of my life again.

It's quite possible I should have been a nun.