Due to renovations at home my one-and-only full bathroom is nothing but studs, pipes and exposed floorboards. After a visit from the plumber three weeks ago where he roughed in the new bathroom an as a result removed everything that transforms ‘room’ to ‘bathroom’ showering requires a trip to the local heath club. I enjoy going to the health club to work out, but there is an aspect of this venue that was not all together evident until this need to use the shower only.

Americans are a strange bunch, must be the puritan roots, and Midwestern Americans are even more reserved. Be nice, and do not make a scene by drawing attention. This is okay for everyday life, I guess, I would not to want it to be ‘Be cruel, and make a scene’. But, I am finding that there is some sort of sphere that protects the locker rooms from the requirement to be reserved and clothed.

It is an extreme contrast on each side of the locker room door. I will get used to it, and hopefully in the next six to eight weeks the room will again become the bathroom.