Holiday in Cambodia

20 years ago today, Pol Pot was overthrown.  A lot of people don’t understand what Pol Pot did that was so bad.  Here’s a brief screenplay describing his regime:

Pol Pot:  Hey, I’m in charge!  Hooray!

2,000,000 Scholars and Laborers:  We don’t think you know how to run this place better than the last guy.

Pol Pot:  How rude!

2,000,000 Scholars and Laborers:  We’re dead.  Pol Pot has killed us and piled our skulls in mounds.

And Here My Neuroses Began

I’m joining a gym.  Yes, I know that by joining a gym so close to New Year’s Day I’m making myself a statistic, a cliche, part of the herd, yadda yadda yadda.  I’ve come to terms with it.  Leave me alone about that.

What I’m nervous about is the gym shower.  I’ll have to go on lunch breaks, work out for 30-45 minutes each time, and shower before I head back to the office.  I didn’t grow up showering with other men.  My high school gym classes didn’t shower.  I’ve never been a member of a gym.  I’m not in the military.  I know there are pockets of this world where men shower together all the time, but it still is giving me the heebie jeebies just contemplating it.

Does anyone else out there shower in groups?  How do you get over the nerves?  Is it too modest to wear an old-timey man’s swimsuit and a swimcap in there?