[Gnome72141]

So, in a few weeks, we are invited to stay at a cabin with a group of friends. It is a cabin with one bedroom and a large living room, and one bathroom. There was supposed to be 6-8 of us staying there, so not a huge deal. Sort of crammed, but we would manage. I have seen pictures of the place, and the main room really is gigantic.

We found out a few days ago that there are actually a total of 25 people invited, with 18 confirmed going so far!! I talked to the "host" of the event, and she said she invited 25 people thinking maybe 10, tops, would actually go. 10 would be doable. We could stagger showers, get ready in the bathroom or one bedroom one or two at a time, etc. But with 18 or more...that is a different story!

Since I am a planner, I start thinking about logistics. I am pretty introverted and reserved, but the rest of the people are soooo reserved that I seem like a party animal compared to them (which I am not). So, I am thinking things like where is everyone going to get dressed? Is everyone going to wait in line for the shower? I saw pictures of the cabin when my friends remodeled it, and the one shower has a clear shower door, so it's not like one person can shower while others use the bathroom. Are 18 people going to form a line outside the door? And the innocent perv in me wonders how many of the 10 women are going to walk around pajamas braless at night.

My wife is freaking out. She is super conservative, plans on sleeping with a bra under her clothes, will probably get dressed in a closet somewhere, etc, and pretty much all of these particular friends would do the same. Or will they? It could take two hours for people to get ready in the morning if they took turns getting dressed in the bathroom or one bedroom, literally, not even accounting for showering. Of course I am freaking out, too, but for other reasons! And I would gladly get dressed completely in front of everyone, I don't care, but would people get upset with me and freak out (which happened once when I got dressed in front of a whopping three people once, heh)?

So, it got me thinking: who here has been in situations with a lot of people and pretty much no privacy? I don't mean people with nudist groups, etc, but with average people who would normally get dressed in front of no one but their partner, let alone a situation like I may encounter in a few weeks?

The only story I can think of doesn't even involve me. I have a friend who played for some rustic music festival a few years ago where she and the other 25 performers shared a one-room cabin thing (everyone else who attended camped. She could have, too, but she despises camping, and she didn't want to feel left out since every performer was in the cabin). Anyway, she said other than a tiny toilet stall, the cabin was just one large room. Even the showers only had a partial wall in the corner, but there were three shower heads, so more than one person showered at once.

She said she changed her clothes under her blankets for the most part, but after a few days had to shower and just gave in and showered. And, while she started showering alone, two other people eventually started to shower, too, a man and woman. She said that it was *not* one of those moments where you think "hey, this isn't so bad." To her, it *was* really bad and she hated it.

She said that she did eventually change her clothes in the open like everyone else, and no one even noticed her, but she was pretty discrete about it, whereas some of the people had no problem flaunting whatever they could. She said the only positive is that she will never see any of the people ever again, and next time she will just camp even though she hates it, if the event ever comes up again.

Anyway, since I have to be patient for a few weeks, and with my luck it will all be cancelled if people start having second thoughts, I am interested in hearing your similar stories!