“Am I The [Jerk] For Wearing Short Shorts To The Gym Even After Being Asked To Stop?”

People absolutely love policing what others should and shouldn’t wear. Too long, too short, doesn’t cover enough, covers too much, too colorful, too muted, yourtotally-normal-body-part-that-all-humans-haveis showing! God forbid!

In an absolutely hilarious turn of events, a man at the gym was asked to pretty much “cover up” his thighs, as his luscious legs were making a wife haveimpurethoughts and her boyfriend, having caught wind of it, didn’t share the sentiment.

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It turns out that there is an unacceptable short length for men – when someone’s husband catches their wife staring at your legs

Image credits:Sam Sabourin (not the actual photo)

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He has gone to the gym in “ranger panties” – very short shorts – for years now and no one has batted too much of an eye

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When a woman became obsessed with his legs, her upset husband tried to tell him to “cover up”, so the next day the guy put on long sleeves and shorter shorts

This made the guy crazy with anger, but the poster would not budge and took it online instead to ask if he was right

Hey, being hot is sometimes a burden, I get it. It’s a cross you have to bear and it’s oh so difficult getting looks and smiles from people every day… I’m here to tell you that you should bear it with pride, just like the poster of the story, all of you beautifulBored Pandareaders!

It’s ridiculous to think that someone would even ask him to cover up his…checks notes…legs? I mean, I understand that legs, just like any part of the human body, can be attractive, but if there’s nothing that kids shouldn’t see showing, you can’t really expect to be taken seriously.

It’s exactly as one commenter, indoor-girl, on the original post said: “Just as long as the mouse stays inside the house, you’re good to go!”

The fact that the guy, instead of doing anything that the jealous man would like, put on ever shorter shorts and long sleeves, thus “covering up”, is pretty much the single greatest example of malicious compliance I have ever seen. If there is a hall of fame for such things, I hope that this post is there, because it deserves it.

Gyms usually have various rules pertaining to how you dress, but they’re rarely actually enforced, as long as you have nounhoused mice. Commercial gyms usually have harsher restrictions on what you can wear, especially that you have to wear things like shirts and longer shorts. More grassroots gyms usually give you an ocular pat-down and as long as you’re not wearing something so revealing as to make someone uncomfortable, you’re golden.

Going on a gym-related tangent, you should also take into account that it’s best to have absorbent fitness clothes and a towel with you, because how you dress starts mattering when you leave puddles and sticky marks everywhere behind you, like a dog running out of the rain and into the house. Make sure you wipe down that bench!

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While we’re on the topic of short shorts, let’s talk about them! If I had to read and look at all sorts of them, I’ll at least take y’all down with me!

Let’s start with the poster’s infamousranger panties. These actually come from the military, as sometime in the ’70s, U.S. Army Rangers received these short shorts as part of their physical training uniform – that solves why they’re named that way, then.Apparently they quickly became favorites for working out as they’re slightly stretchy and silky smooth, apparently “literally smooth as silk”. That’s why they got their nickname of “silkies” among the marines too.

When the ad opens with “back in the day, when men’s fashion wasn’t cutting it, modern Kiwi males demanded more from their casual attire, but what they actually got was less – a whole lot less – as they welcomed in stubbies” you know the thing is going to be amazing.

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We reached out to the poster to hopefully get a sneak peek atthe goods

Bored Panda succeeded in reaching out to the poster with one request (and a couple of brief questions) – to see his legs and got a reply back!

You can see the poster’s stompers up there – judge for yourself whether you could avert your eyes from them in the gym.

Furthermore, according to bothonpele, his experience in the army and his grandmom gave him confidence, which is pretty stoic and sweet at the same time if you ask me. He quotably added: “She is long gone, but still lives in me.”

The poster’s story was wildly popular in the AITA community, raking in 13.8k upvotes in less than a week. The community judged the guy not to be a jerk in the slightest and pretty much told him to keep flaunting those legs forever.

The community decided that the guy was not a jerk, instead giving the titles to the insecure boyfriend

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