it's not the la sports club

i'm beginning to think the ymca where i work out attracts a bit of an odd crowd.

every gym has their one gross guy, and i figured that's what i found with the lotion guy. but now, just a couple days later, i've already come across someone else doing something totally inappropriate.

near the entrance of the men's locker room, there's a little enclave with an armchair, a loveseat and a little coffee table. ostensibly, you could relax there after a workout and read a magazine while you cool off. not the most hygenic setup, and i'm pretty sure i wouldn't apply the 10-second rule for food i dropped on a cushion there, but it's not soemthing i ever thought twice about.

well that was until today. after finishing a quick workout, i jogged down the stairs and entered the sitting area to find a portly asian man, probably in his late 40's seated in the armchair, apparently having dozed off, one leg propped up onto the armrest of the chair.

doesn't seem so strange, until you take into consideration that he was completely naked -- except for a towel covering his pubic area. but i'm not talking about the kind of towel made of cotton you use to dry yourself off.

no i'm talking about a paper towel, and not even a proper one at that. this was the brown variety that you find at classy locales like truck stops and high school bathrooms, the ones that can't absorb moisture but are pretty useful if you want to spread a liquid out so that it will evaporate more quickly.

yes, a man 50 pounds overweight, legs open as if expecting a delivery, with a single paper towel, so crumpled that he might have stuffed it in the pocket of his missing pants earlier in the day, to cover his genitals.