[Editor's Note: This one's sorta nasty. Consider yourself forewarned.]
So, I'm at the gym yesterday, and about to grab my usual shower before I go back to the office. The Gold's Gym where I workout is new, so the locker rooms and showers usually pretty well maintained and cleaned regularly. Nonetheless, every now and then, somebody inevitably leaves behind a pair of shoes, some workout gloves, or God forbid, an iPhone. I usually play good Samaritan and turn these in at the front desk. Yes, even the iPhone. I'm just a Good Samaritan like that.
Anyways, I jumped in the shower today and found two hardly used bottles of Paul Mitchell Tea Tree shampoo and conditioner. I'm not too choosy about this sorta stuff, but I know enough about hair care products from observing my wife to know that these bottles are a good $12-15 each. I've used hers before, and man, that is some great freakin' shampoo. It makes your head feel cool, like every pore is open. The bottled appear to have only been used once or twice at most. And the locker room is empty, so whomever bought them has long since left.
I won't tell you want I did until later, but I'll ask you guys now.
What would YOU do? Would you use the shampoo? Would you take the shampoo? Would you leave the shampoo in the shower?
Thursday, October 9, 2008
What Would You Do?: Shampoo In The Shower
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I would not think twice before leaving the shampoo right where I found it. I am a total germaphobe and I would not want to touch an object that some stranger had touched while they were naked.
This may seem totally illogical, since the shampoo was probably perfectly fine, but I wouldn't want to take any chances.
So I gotta know, what did YOU do AB?
I'd leave it and inform the establishment.
Hell, it's not mine, and saying that it's finders keepers is only valid when you know it's impossible to locate the owner of said objects, things, or items.
No, I wouldn't use it either. See explanation above for reason why.
Leave the shampoo. Were in the age of biological attacks, AB. I don't mean chemical warfare either.
Think the 'American Pie' beer scene...yeah...folks could do just that even in shampoo.
I know that's very "eew", but you can't trust anything free nowadays but oxygen...and I haven't started getting a bill for that yet.
EG
I'd use it once and then would leave it where I found it.
I'd leave it without a second thought. I'd let someone know at the front desk, but that's about it.
What'd you do? :)
Im the guy wearing those ugly plasitc clogs into the shower at the gym, inspite of the fact they seem to keep it pretty clean. Im too much a germophobe. I would have left it be.
I would not have taken or used the shampoo but for totally different reasons. if anyone is truly worried about some dog gone germs(trying not to curse) then you are truly too high and mighty for your own good. Walking to work Monday, I saw a guy eating out of the trash can! It's mickie fickies eatin' out of trash cans you can't possibly be worried about some "biological attacks" from a shampoo bottle. When was the las time you heard of anyone getting sick/sent to the hospital because somebody left a tainted bottle of shampoo in the Gym bathroom. C'mon mayne.
@AB The reason why you don't take it is because it's stealing. Any other reason is some straight bull shiggidy.
@AB 1 - 2, on - off, true - false, you either took it or you didn't. Come clean, bruh.
Wouldn't use it but I'd tell the management.
I wouldn't have used it either, and I would have left it there.
I would use it and keep the stuff.
I know stealing is stealing, and some people may feel that keeping these items is so wrong...hopefully not the same people who 'steal' cable or buy 'bootleg' dvds that are not 'authorized' for distribution.
We all can justify our behaviors when we want to...
i would leave it, and let me tell you why...
while in undergrad two of my male friends who lived in a quad with some dudes they did not like had the bright idea of urinating in the shampoo bottles of their quad-mates. that image alone is enough to not use something that isn't mine...i don't know where it's been and who touched it (and what cooties they may have)
I see some good points on here but I'm a little less concerned about what goes on the outside of my body What happens in restaurants and fast food chains is enough to make you cringe, vomit and become a vegan!
A real germa-phobe doesn't touch door knobs, elevator buttons, escalator handles, and never tries on lipstick/makeup @ the mall!...
Simple: use the goodies I brought, leave the forbidden fruit where it is & inform the front desk. Actually did this one more than one occasion when I lived / worked out in Philly. It may not be high on the Samaritan scale, but it doesn't leave you feeling 'itchy' afterward, if you know what I mean.
yeah, I'm only a few years removed from dorm life. I don't touch anything. Hell, I'm always a bit leery of touching my own shampoo bottle in the shower cuz it always has that damp feeling.
I honestly would have considered it but left it. One because I would never wash my hair at the gym because it takes too much for me to get it back looking acceptable again. But taking that out of the equation, I'd still leave it and notify management/lost and found.
Sooooo.........inquiring minds want to know what you did, AB.
I wouldn't judge someone who might use it, then leave it and tell the desk. But for good samaritan and, yes, potential where's-it-been reasons, I'd likely keep my distance & tell mgmt.
I'm not squeamish about germs per se, but I've heard some really bad gym stories.
Glad to hear you'd turn in the iPhone! Me too. Makes me sooo mad when people steal.
You never know how hard someone might've worked and scrimped and saved to get even a small thing like that.
So, you.....?
Turn it in. Bad karma to steal
anything.
Just in case you're wondering, I didn't use or take the shampoo. I left it there.
Your comments have been very interesting however.
@AB:
Just curious, what was the primary reason you didn't use the shampoo? It's understandable why you wouldn't take it...
@ Cheri T
cooties.
Due to caution (some call it paranoia), I don't think I could use a stranger's open bottle of shampoo. Could have something sinister in it and make me bald or worse.
I would never have used that shampoo. But then again, I ain't trying to use the shower @ the gym either. I have an aversion to dirt and germs. I keeps me a can of Lysol, and disinfectant wipes @ work. Not to mention the hand sanitizer sitting in plain view on my desk. My co-workers call me "Monk". LOL!
I'd leave it. As good as it is (my stylist uses it on me), it's still just shampoo. Who steals shampoo? I'd feel silly taking it.
guy washes crotch then grabs bottle with same hand...
you do the math...
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