Friday, March 22, 2013

Adventures at the Y - bad ones.

There is a real issue at the Buffalo - Niagara YMCA with parents bringing their kids in the ADULT dressing rooms. Now the families have 3 others to use, ( boys, girls, and family) but some of the special snowflakes bring their kids ( both boys and girls as old as 10) into the one that is set aside for adults 19 and over. I am a Master Key Member and I have seen this at every branch in Erie County. So when an adult woman goes to swim - she gets to be an impromptu peepshow for any kid who wanders through. Staff is unresponsive and even complicit. Today the cleaning staff escorted a mother and child into the adult locker room and told me "It's ok." NO, It's Not! It has been made clear, that I can not use the family locker room - where there is more privacy, because I am not a parent with a child. The children's locker rooms have notices that no adult with out a child is allowed in the children's locker rooms. ( and I have been told several times that an adult in there will loose their membership "for the safety of children") BUT it's ok some how for kids to be in the adult women's locker room? This is a land mine for the adults, all that has to happen is for one parent to get upset at a woman in there and claim that they were flashing the kids - and that adult's life is ruined. But somehow this is an acceptable risk for adults to have FORCED on them. I've complained to corporate twice now and get lip service about how they will "deal with it" yet it continues. Today I was told that the "can't do anything about it." and that one guy wishes he could "do something because he's sick of hearing the complaints" --- so helpful. So very helpful. I love to swim - I need to exercise. But I really don't want to risk jail because some entitled parent brought her kid into an adult locker and got offended at the sight of women changing out of their swimsuits. I am so unimpressed with the Y and their response to this.
Need a Snow Day?