{"id":49665,"date":"2023-11-14T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T18:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49665"},"modified":"2023-11-17T13:27:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T18:27:13","slug":"clearly-i-am-the-weirdo-for-valuing-hygiene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49665","title":{"rendered":"Clearly I am the weirdo, for valuing hygiene"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When it comes to gym going habits, I always factor in the time I need to get dressed, take care of any bathroom needs, changing back, but most importantly, showering.\u00a0 If at any point, it doesn\u2019t seem like there\u2019s enough time to get a shower in, I just won\u2019t go to the gym; period, full-stop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I will alter my workouts and drop down from three sets of everything to two sets of everything.\u00a0 And\/or I will drop weight in order to ensure I\u2019m not getting gassing and taking excessively long breaks in between lifts, all in order to make sure that I have adequate time to get my shower in, because like I just stated, if I can\u2019t shower, then there is no workout.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the span of the last year, I\u2019ve often witnessed men, and well women, who come to my little office gym to workout, and after they finish, they\u2019re dressed back in their slave<\/span> office attire and leaving within the next five minutes.\u00a0 Obviously, they did not shower, which always has me scrunching up my face in varying amounts of disgust based on how sweaty and gross I think they probably are, depending on the seriousness of their workouts, which in most cases I can usually observe and evaluate while I\u2019m doing my thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I always think it\u2019s weird and gross that people are doing this, because even if I were to hop into the gym, walk five minutes on the treadmill, do some bicep curls or some push-ups or some lat pulls, I know that I\u2019ll have warmed up my general core to at the very least, feeling a little bit sticky and un-fresh.\u00a0 I know I\u2019d want a shower from just that amount of activity, so I couldn\u2019t fathom doing an actual workout where my chest has started sweating because that\u2019s the part of me that apparently starts sweating first, for your daily dose of TMI, and I don\u2019t clean myself off.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of my greatest fears is being the guy that smells bad, because that\u2019s a reputation that I imagine lasts forever to those who are unfortunate to have been hampered by it.\u00a0 Frankly, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever smelled bad, but I\u2019m also convinced that most people can\u2019t really smell themselves, and I\u2019m always paranoid that in times when it\u2019s hot out and I\u2019ve gotten some perspiration going, I am someone that smells bad and just the people I surround myself with in my life are all too polite and considerate to ever say anything to me, or perhaps I really don\u2019t smell bad, and I\u2019d like to keep it that way, and the best way to ensure that kind of silence remains is to keep myself fucking clean, by virtue of taking showers, especially after working out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Plus, I just love the feeling of being all clean and fresh after a nice shower, and I\u2019m baffled that so many other people don\u2019t enjoy it enough to want to alter their exercise habits to ensure that they can clean themselves up too.<\/span><\/p>\n

I asked my friends in one of our collective group chats on I were being weird by being so grossed out by people who didn\u2019t shower, and no matter how many times I\u2019ve brought up the topic, the answers haven\u2019t really changed much mostly because 80% of the people in my group have muted the chat because those of us who are active are often too fucking active and they\u2019re tired of checking in and seeing 87 new messages about inane topics like humans that smell bad.\u00a0 But a lot of them are seemingly okay with it, or defending or giving excuses for people who don\u2019t shower after working out, and it doesn\u2019t gross me out any less, as much as it makes me think that people need to prioritize their lives better to where they should probably concern themselves with their hygiene more than they do.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take for example, there\u2019s one dude, who is actually on my floor, who doesn\u2019t work out in the gym, but he goes on long nature hikes on the paths that surround my building, but he comes back sweatier than a wildebeest, and he tracks in all sorts of mud and debris into the locker room.\u00a0 And then, he doesn\u2019t shower, ever, and just gets back into his default skin, probably takes a damp towel to himself and considers himself fine to go back to the office, and I\u2019m disgusted by him every time I see him, especially after noon, because I know where he\u2019s been and I\u2019m sure he\u2019s probably a guy who smells, but I don\u2019t want to find out to confirm.<\/span><\/p>\n

But more recently, and what spawned this revisiting of this topic is that just the other day, an extremely high-up guy in my company came into the gym to workout.\u00a0 And I\u2019m talking about like, not the CEO of the company, but like the #2 or #3 guy in the company, someone who is on the highest floor of our building.\u00a0 He\u2019s recognizable because he\u2019s the guy who leads off the vast majority of corporate communications and is undeniably the highest positioned guy in the company on premises, because the CEO of the company, despite adding a fourth day of mandatory in-office a week, lives in fucking Florida in a grand display of hypocrisy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, super high-up executive guy, he\u2019s actually in pretty good shape for his age.\u00a0 White girls might even consider him a silver fox.\u00a0 Does some time on the rower, does some hindu squats, spends an adequate time on several machines, working out all over the body.\u00a0 Has what would be considered a pretty full workout in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

He vanishes into the locker room, and I\u2019m thinking to myself, does this guy, a major high-up executive for this $2B company on the rise, come out in five minutes, or does enough time pass to where I can believe he\u2019s taken a shower because he had a pretty decent workout?<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, he emerges in five minutes, in his default skin for white guys, cornflower blue oxford shirt and khakis, and it\u2019s evident that this guy who probably makes three times what I do and is the highest position in the building, did not shower<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, going back to the title of this post, clearly, I am the fucking weirdo, because I value hygiene and cleanliness moar than the rest of the slovenly sweat hogs that I work with.\u00a0 And upon further reflection, I realize that there are probably fewer people than I have fingers on a single hand that I have seen who actually shower after their workouts.\u00a0 And at this point, I suppose I really can close the book on the topic, and stop asking myself and all my friends on if I\u2019m being weird for judging people who don\u2019t shower after working out, because it\u2019s pretty evident that so many in the world are completely at ease with being gross and stinky in situations where they can control whether or not they can refresh themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to gym going habits, I always factor in the time I need to get dressed, take care of any bathroom needs, changing back, but most importantly, showering.\u00a0 If at any point, it doesn\u2019t seem like there\u2019s enough time to get a shower in, I just won\u2019t go to the gym; period, full-stop.\u00a0 … Continue reading Clearly I am the weirdo, for valuing hygiene<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,45,109,83,49],"class_list":["post-49665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-bathroom","tag-fail","tag-gym","tag-observations","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49666,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49665\/revisions\/49666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}