Locker room scene

[kengr]

Ok, I need input from those of you who had to use the boys locker room in high school. The more recently the better.

Had a concept force itself on me, and I realized that I need other viewpoints to make a scene come out right.

So, it's the first day of the school year, and you are in the locker room for your PE class. And a student with long hair and definite breasts walks in.

What do you do?

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[my-real-head.livejournal.com]

Not notice it because I'm awkwardly staring at my locker, tunnel-vision style.

[polydad.livejournal.com]

Continue with what I'd been doing; there *must* have been some reason I was in a locker room in the first place. Within that, and speaking from the mind of my seventeen-year-old self, *also* keep an eye open for a better sight of those "definite breasts." Beyond that, can't say; too many variables and not enough detail.

best,

Joel

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

What my_real_head said, yes.

I'd probably figure one of two explanations. Most likely there was some reason for this person to be there and it was no big deal (and if I spoke up I'd have to, you know, interact with somebody in the locker room). Alternately, this newcomer was a girl who'd just made a horrible mistake - in which case she'd be embarrassed enough without anyone admitting to notice her presence.

(For some reason I remember the junior high locker room much more clearly than the one in high school.)

[kengr]

Weird, back when I was in junior high and high school, interacting in the locker room was fine, as long as you weren't like *looking* at another guys crotch.

[seawasp]

Not being particularly shy in THAT sense, I'd probably say "Er, are you sure you're in the right locker room?" And try, likely unsuccessfully, to keep my eyes up, up, up. Assuming we're talking about anything other than my first year in High School, where my hormones hadn't QUITE kicked in. Then I wouldn't have as much trouble keeping my eyes up.

Note that my experience with locker rooms is 30+years in the past.

[kengr]

Better than mine which is 40 years in the past.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[kengr]

Yeah, but unlike my scenario, yours is illegal in many states.

ETA: actually, upon reflection, I can envision a situation where your scenario would be legal. I just can't picture them being willing to *follow* the law in said situation.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[kengr]

After some thought, I'd be interested in where your scenario would go. I'm not equipped (experience wise) to write it though.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[mikkop.livejournal.com]

A story from a different culture, so not directly relevant, but might be interesting:

In Finnish upper secondary schools (which are close to what you think of high schools) the PE is, as in most other places, usually segregated by sex, so different classes for boys and girls. At least when I attended in the beginning of the Nineties, the curriculum was very dependent on the teachers.

In my school this meant that the girls' PE consisted of aerobic, some dancing and such, and boys' PE was volleyball, floorball, table tennis, bowling or Finnish baseball. Even after asking multiple times, the girls couldn't budge their teacher, so some then attended the boys' class.

This wasn't so bad especially as that course was mostly volleyball, and none of us could play particularily well, and the girls were the more athletic ones. So, it was one of the most fun PE courses in my upper secondary (the dancing one was probably the best, it was practicing for our dance, which was during the second year as the seniors left... this would need more explaining, though, and not relevant here. :)

So, I have the recollection that for some reason some of the girls took to using the boys' dressing room at least on some occasions. I don't remember even comments about it and I remember some usual chatter in the dressing room.

I like to think we were somewhat open-minded even here, but I don't have experience in other schools. I think it wasn't that unusual but not very uncommon.

Of course we knew each other so it wasn't a surprise and at the time the sex of pupils was kind of clear. I still don't think nobody would've that much batted an eyelash in that kind of situation. A lot would depend on the long-haired student's behaviour - be cool and everybody would be cool, but being nervous would probably have just caused embarrasment for all of us.

[kengr]

Well, given that I understand that saunas are coed and used by folks from kids on up in Finland, I'm not surprised that there's no problem.

In much of the US there'd be a definite problem.

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

I would have commented sooner, but I know nothing. In PE I made sure to be either first or last in the changing room. Nobody around, you see. And I changed as fast as I could. I always felt like I was in the wrong changing room, like I was a girl in the boys room. And I never showered at the school, either. The very thought... I never understood how anyone could use a public shower.

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

like I was a girl in the boys room

Which I was, if not legally.

[kengr]

If you got caught *not* showering (except if PE was the last period class) you got in trouble.

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

Not in my schools. They didn't insist on it. Either that, or I never got caught. And considering how often the PE teacher in Anita came into the dressing room, I doubt very much that he gave a shit whether or not I showered. If he had, I would have gotten caught.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]