Life in Dulwich

why would she take your towel if she had a towel of her own? I think we must draw the conclusion that she's just too stupid to remember whose towel is whose. And we must pity, rather than hate, the intellectually challenged.
 

It's true. I spent Tuesday counting how many times something happened that made me say, "I hate people". Gave up because I lost count. Strangely, about 5 incidents happened in quick succession at the changing rooms in the gym.
 

I think one constantly underestimates the stupidity of people and overestimates their evilness. We assume they are in control of what they do. Like when people bump into you in the street - it's not because they're too arrogant to get out of your way: it's because they're too stupid to be able to work out that they need to swerve.
 

However, when someone spreads all their belongings out all over the gym bench so noone else has room to put their stuff down and then proceeds to talk loudly on their mobile phone for ages, thereby hogging time and space - now that's pure arrogance.
 

Famous quote. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
 

It's true. But it's depressing to think that there are that many stupid people. Though maybe it would be worse if there were that many malicious people.
 

I couldn't agree more about gym stuff, but I think you ought to take a more "consequence" view.

My mate Ingshe was at the gym the other day and in an empty changing room, these two girls just *had* to sit on a bench having a very loud chat right by her locker, making it almost impossible for her to get changed. So Ingshe got herself buck naked and proceeded to bend over as much as possible, sticking her naked arse into their faces.

For the towel in the shower, I recommend throwing your towel over the door instead of putting it on a hook outside. Keeps people from walking in on you *and* the towel within grabbing range.
 

Both good strategies - although the annoying person in question (not the towel stealer, but the space hogger) is quite happy to wander around completely naked with her phone clamped to her ear.

Sorry, can't provide pictorial evidence, Fumier!