So that deck changing thread got me thinking, what is normal for public sessions? I'm going back to my UK/USA comparisons........
When I took my kids swimming to the public sessions in the UK, I'd pack up a bag of suits, towels, floats, toys etc and schlepp along to the pool to change in the changing rooms.
Now an FYI 'cos things are different here....Changing rooms consist of a number of cubicles for people to change in private as well as a communal change area and are split between male and female change - although some pools have a changing village with huge family-sized cubicles and no communal change. All modern (ie non-victorian) UK pools have pretty good changing facilities, even those with not much more than a 25m 6 lane pool.
So I take my kids to our local-ish pool here in Texas. 8 lane, 25yd competition pool, plus leisure pool with waterslide, lazy river and kids play structure and walk into the women's locker room.
It is full of lockers and has 2 small benches...eh? Where do I change???
Anyway being a communal-change gal, I get myself and the kids suited up and we swim. We finish swimming, we shower, remove suits wrap ourselves in a towel and dress by one of the benches.
Now whilst drying off and dressing there are a few ladies/kids shuffling around changing in the toilets and dressing in the showers. I get a couple of odd looks standing there in my underwear directing 2 small children to dress as well, but don't care - we're all naked under our clothes after all.
While we were swimming a number of families came in, most it seemed already in their suits, they "undressed" on the deck and when they left they wrapped a towel around the kids or pulled on a t-shirt and that was it. And it wasn't summer! All I could think of was the chlorine eating away at their suits.
So what is normal? and am I the only female living in Texas not afraid to strip down in the women's locker room? :afraid:
And do they build pools here with crappy changing because no-one uses it? Or does no-one use the locker rooms because they're so crappy?
Or is this just a Texas thing, not a USA thing? :D
My experience in men's changing/locker rooms is that nearly everyone changes in front of their locker and walking from the showers to the changing area nude is commonplace. My wife tells me the women's changing room actually has a couple privacy closets, so I have a feeling women tend to be a little more modest.
Back in college our locker room didn't even have enclosed toilets!
Also it's commonplace at the pool I swim at for parents to take young kids (maybe under 5) into the opposite sex locker room (i.e., women take boys into the women's, and men take their daughters into the men's).
My experience in men's changing/locker rooms is that nearly everyone changes in front of their locker and walking from the showers to the changing area nude is commonplace. My wife tells me the women's changing room actually has a couple privacy closets, so I have a feeling women tend to be a little more modest.
Back in college our locker room didn't even have enclosed toilets!
Also it's commonplace at the pool I swim at for parents to take young kids (maybe under 5) into the opposite sex locker room (i.e., women take boys into the women's, and men take their daughters into the men's).
