# Learn and use the Man-Rules when it comes to showers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756 "2007-12-20T22:03:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Skylark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Skylark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skylark)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/81 "2007-12-22T02:01:57Z")
Just give the man a few polite golf claps and move on. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/82 "2007-12-22T05:13:56Z")
I think the proper response to someone breakdancing in the shower next to you is to counter by starting a riverdance in yours. (Always escalate; never back down, dammit!) ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/83 "2007-12-22T13:18:27Z")
[QUOTE=42fish] I think the proper response to someone breakdancing in the shower next to you is to counter by starting a riverdance in yours. (Always escalate; never back down, dammit!) [/QUOTE] I have a mental picture of Shower 6 guy breakdancing, **Sauron** defending his manliness by riverdancing right back at him…and guy number three suddenly walking into the shower. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/84 "2007-12-22T13:25:22Z")
I don’t really need to shower now, it can wait till I get home. Yes, that’s a good idea, get a head start on the traffic… ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/85 "2007-12-22T14:08:37Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] I have a mental picture of Shower 6 guy breakdancing, **Sauron** defending his manliness by riverdancing right back at him…and guy number three suddenly walking into the shower. [/QUOTE] That’s not a shower; that’s a dress rehearsal for _A Chorus Line_. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/86 "2007-12-22T15:29:52Z")
[QUOTE=Encinitas] I think you guys have it easy. Similar, but more complicated problems occur in the women’s shower. Such as, there I am showering away, keeping my eyes front and center, no peeking or sly glances at the equipment on display. Then I turn around to rinse off my back and across from me is a taller woman “looking” me right in the eye. So I demurely look down only to be confronted by another anatomical display. I tell you there’s no safe place to look in the women’s shower. :eek: [sub]And no you can’t have a cite.[/sub] [/QUOTE] Many years ago when I went to a gym, the showers were private cubicals with a shower curtain. You hung your towel on a hook outside the shower so it wouldn’t get wet. I stepped out of the shower to be confronted by a monstrous set of boobs right at eye level as some woman was drying herself off in front of the cubical next to mine. So I had to squint my eyes and turn to the wall to grope for my towel. Jeez, woman! Watch where you aim those things. I was actually hoping this thread would give me some insight into why my boyfriend takes forever in the shower, but there was no help here. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/87 "2007-12-22T15:37:20Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] I have a mental picture of Shower 6 guy breakdancing, **Sauron** defending his manliness by riverdancing right back at him…and guy number three suddenly walking into the shower. [/QUOTE] That reminds me of a porno video I saw once. {shudder} That’s the last time I’ll browse THAT fetish section out of raw curiousity. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/88 "2007-12-22T16:12:19Z")
[QUOTE=Musicat] That reminds me of a porno video I saw once. {shudder} That’s the last time I’ll browse THAT fetish section out of raw curiousity. :eek: [/QUOTE] Okay, that movie I DON’T have… ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/89 "2007-12-22T17:12:13Z")
You can take this all too far - I was having a shower at a sports centre a few weeks ago and a guy came in and proceeded to have a shower in his underwear. In his UNDERWEAR! What’s that about? I see this in the same category as men who when in the changing room seem to be physically unable to remove the towel from around the waist, to the point where they’ll even put their underwear on whilst wearing a towel. I mean come on, we’re all guys here. I’m not sure that your rules are all-encompassing. I’ve been in quite a few situations where men have chatted to one another in communal showers and it’s not been about killing boars with their bare hands or nailing women or anything. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/90 "2007-12-22T17:22:52Z")
[Scrubs]Shower Shortz…for the man who has nothing to hide…but still wants to.[/Scrubs] And they come with a complimentary Shower Wallet! ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/91 "2007-12-23T12:15:48Z")
Hmm I see a lack of guidance here on genuinly dropping the soap,getting piss proud and a stranger who comes in with a pink loofah and then starts a conversation with you starting with “My my thats a big one” Luckily at my gym we have partitioned showers. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/92 "2007-12-23T17:45:20Z")
If you ask nicely, I’m sure **jayjay** will be happy to peruse his extensive video collection and come up with an answer to that very scenario. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/93 "2007-12-23T19:57:32Z")
Yesterday, at the Y, I was innocently showering in the last, corner stall on the side that has partitions (the facing side has no partitions). 'Twas a rather busy time, and all the partitioned showers, and half the unpartitioned showers were occupied. Strange guy comes in, takes the last unpartitioned shower (opposite me), and with my Eyes In The Back Of My Head, I sense he keeps checking me out. So I do the Sidelong Glance-n-Glare, and sure enough, he quickly looks away. The Hell? Right, so I proceed about my business, glowering all the while, while strange guy sheepishly stands under the spray, _in his swimsuit_, not lathering up. Occasionally attempting to glance my way. When I finish up, he moves over to my shower – doffs trunks, and soaps up! He was waiting to use one of the partitioned showers! GAH! (edit: note, the partitioned showers just have partitions; no curtains – they’re still open to view) As any _real_ man would know, if the showers are too full, you either forego the shower, or putter around in the locker rooms until the herd thins out a bit. You do not go ogle the showering guys, thereby making them feel like they’re a piece of meat in one of **jayjay** ’s videos! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/94 "2007-12-24T13:18:28Z")
Man, what a bunch of bollocks! I’m pretty sure I’d just say to Mr. Boundary-Oblivious “Dude, WTF? There’s 7 shower stalls here, and you pick _that_ one?” Is this within the rules, or am I some bizarre offshoot of Man-dom? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/95 "2007-12-24T13:41:23Z")
My _stars_, so many things I’ve saved myself from having to remember. How do you all keep up? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/96 "2007-12-25T02:58:12Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] Hmm I see a lack of guidance here on genuinly dropping the soap,getting piss proud and a stranger who comes in with a pink loofah and then starts a conversation with you starting with “My my thats a big one” Luckily at my gym we have partitioned showers. [/QUOTE] You confuse me sir. Genuinely dropping the soap, or genuinely dropping the soap? Is this Big Al’s Big Gay Gym (or the YMCA) or Big Al’s Supposedly Straight Gym? If the latter, just pick up your stupid soap. If the former, there’s probably already an orgy going on which would be your first clue. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/97 "2007-12-25T04:38:16Z")
[QUOTE=matt\_mcl] My _stars_, so many things I’ve saved myself from having to remember. How do you all keep up? [/QUOTE] You’re born with it. I think it’s included in the testes somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/98 "2007-12-25T04:53:07Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] Hey, we don’t want him - he might pee on something. Or leave the seats up. [/QUOTE] :eek: I’ve been in women’s restrooms before. If you think that only men leave…stuff… on the seat, you’re fooling yourself. And if, in a public restroom, you don’t look first, you’re a twice damned fool. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/99 "2007-12-28T05:15:31Z")
[QUOTE=Smeghead] You’re born with it. I think it’s included in the testes somewhere. [/QUOTE] Well, something’s amiss in my case, then. Functioning testicles + no knowledge of man rules + ability to distinguish magenta from dusty rose = quandary. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756/100 "2007-12-28T13:18:19Z")
That’s not just a violation of Man Law; that violates Occidental cultural mores as well. You never get next to someone else be it at the movies, the doctors’ office, etc. unless you know them or there is no other seat available which isn’t next to someone else. Its’ all about the personal space. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learn-and-use-the-man-rules-when-it-comes-to-showers/430756.md?page=6)