Meeting people you know in a sauna

[Brock Landers]

These two stories are rather short and stretch the definition of "people you know" but I don't think you'll mind.

- That happened in the same place as my last story - I was a regular there for a couple of months. I always went for the Aufguss/Infusion there, in the large Blockhaus sauna. The Saunameister/in doing the infusion would rotate among I guess half a dozen of their staff. To those unfamiliar with it: the Saunameister is the only person who is not naked - I think they're not even allowed to be naked even if they wanted to. They usually wear a t-shirt and shorts, or a bathing suit with or without t-shirt on top; the guys will sometimes wear just a towel around their waist, or variations thereof.

So one of the girls that did it came in and announced that she was trying something new, which she called a "specially brutal" infusion which lasted a bit longer and used ice rather than water. It was her first time trying that. She was wearing a black one-piece bathing suit. She was in her mid-20s I guess, a nice athletic, tone body, very white skin, brown eyes and long brown hair in a ponytail - really a good-looking girl and I had seen her doing the infusion many times. Unfortunately I had never seen her naked since the staff - that seems to be a rule everywhere in those places - seems to get inside for a "staff only" shower afterwards. The rest of the public was a fair mix of ages and genders, the place was pretty full.

So the Aufguss goes on. It starts to get hot. Really hot. The hottest I remember experiencing (and I wasn't even on the top bench). She dumps a lot of the ice on the hot stones, starts doing the "helicopter" movement with her towel, and there is a general groan. Some people who were on the top bench either climb down or even run for the exit (which is frowned upon but they can't stop people leaving). The Saunameisterin's face is dripping with sweat and she's clearly uncomfortable. Her bathing suit was sticking to her skin in places. So finally she finishes it, it's over, and says as usual, "please shower before jumping in the pool". Everyone leaves into the cold air to stand in line for the shower and everyone is giving off a cloud of condensed water vapour into cold night.

Then, and this is the only time I ever saw (or noticed) this happening, the Saunameisterin gets in line as well, takes off her sweat-drenched bathing suit then and there, drops it into one of her buckets, and stands in line naked like the rest of us, and later joins us in the cold open-air pool. After swimming a bit back and forth she rested on the edge near where I was, and a woman asked her, "it was too hot for you too, was it?" "oh god yes, I will go easier next time, I almost died". Then she climbed up the steps out of the pool next to me, giving me a nice look of her even skin, C-cub boobs, very trimmed bush and of her perfect butt as she got out. She went over to where she had left her things, wrapped her body in her towel, and went inside. On the couple of previous occasions she had done the Aufguss I had enjoyed looking at her and it was great to finally, unexpectedly, see her naked.

- The other story happened in a hotel elsewhere in Germany and where I also stayed on occasion. That place had a small spa area downstairs, with one steam room, one small sauna, a jacuzzi, and a good-sized pool. 90% of the time when I stayed there and used the sauna area I was on my own, but this time it was winter and the hotel was busy, so when I go to the small sauna there is a young couple there. That was a L-shaped sauna with just two levels of benches and so small you could have squeezed at most, with an effort, 8 people there. That couple was sitting on the longer arm of the L with the girl in the corner and her guy by her side, so I took the upper bench of the short side and sat there on my towel. I didn't really get a good view of the girl. Then a woman opens the glass door and enters, saying "good evening" in German. She stood there completely nude holding her towel on one arm, quickly noted the lack of options ie the best spot left was on the lower bench just below me. She bowed down as she lay her towel so without even having to do anything I got a nice view of her boobs and trimmed blond bush just inches in front of me. She was a really fine-looking woman all around, ~40 I guess but in superb shape, with blond hair in a bob cut that covered her whole neck. As she was sitting just in front and below me I got a constant sight of her perfect, even tanned shoulders and back (surely from going to sunbeds as is usual there). The young couple left about two minutes later, to my relief (as they couldn't stop talking about whatever) so the woman turned to me and asked, smiling, pointing to the now-free prized location of the longer bench: "would you like - - ?" As I was there first. I said "no, I'm about to leave, please go ahead", so she stood up, lay her towel on that bench giving me a nice view of her butt, and lay her body there - with her head closer to my side, so she was not risking exposing herself too much. I could admire her body without her noticing, from her position, but after a few minutes I was getting dizzy so I just said "bye" and left.

The next morning I am there eating my breakfast, and there she was at the buffet, wearing boots, an elegant skirt and jacket, looking like a corporate woman (which I'm sure she was). We didn't exchange eye contact so I don't even know if she saw or recognized me. I only knew that I didn't have to guess how she looked without those clothes on, because I knew exactly.

- as a bonus, this video was taped at an actual Aufguss. A couple of women are briefly shown swimming nude at the beginning but for the actual Aufguss, skip to 1:18. It gives a good glimpse of a very good-looking woman to the right of the screen. On the other hand, it's a completely over-the-top theatrical thing and the poor guys had to be dying of heat.

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[coupleak]

Although we go to a sauna center only 20km from our home, we haven't met many people we know.
Besides wife's sister and sister's husband joining us sometimes, we've only met 3 female colleagues of my wife.
But I would love to run into some people we know of which we know they also sometimes go to that same sauna.

[ours01]

I work in Switzerland and have quite a few female coworkers, to include a female boss who is Scandanavian. During one of our end-of-day unwinding conversations, she started telling me about a sauna club in a town near me on the lake that has a Scandanavian president and how many members go there on weekends after cross-country skiing. Then she went on about some of the other saunas she goes to sometimes, to include one I often go to (not a club, it is open to the public after paying admision, but only open in the winter). Then I realized I had seen her years before, probably when she first arrived and I didn't know who she was, and simply thinking that by the way she conducted herself in the sauna, she (an attractive blonde a couple years older than me) must be Scandanavian. So, that was kind of interesting, and I don't know if she remembered me out of the sauna full of people (many of whom were male, of course), and, given her demeanor, I would not be embarrassed. She is a very matter-of-fact person.

Another coworker I recognized - but who I don't think recognized me - was a much younger lady who is of Mediterranean ancestry but a German citizen. So, she is pretty used to saunas (I assume) and I should not have been surprised to see her there. She was an aide to my boss at the time (a guy who has a history of having attractive but ultra-efficient aides), and quite efficient and attractive, but it was still a bit surprising to see her nude and see how attractive she really is. Very nice - shapely body without being over-exercised, really nice, buoyant breasts with medium-sized medium-brown areolas, and her very bright smile. It was just nice to watch her walk around.

Now, this does not count coworkers or friends I have taken to this or other saunas. I have been lucky enough to introduce more than a few people to this nice practice, and it has been the start of a romance in a few cases. I do remember going to a sauna owned by a Finnish guy in Panama (the sauna he built behind his house) and he had invited us over for sauna and dinner. So, of the 3 invitees, two of us went in teh sauna - I think the other guy was a bit embarrassed either about the whole sauna thing or maybe because he was fairly overweight. We would not have cared, of course. So, this is where I learned that the Finnish standard for a sauna is different than the central European (especially German/Austrian) standard. The latter like absolute quiet. The Finns basically have a disco inside - music, talking, drinks, etc. Very different - which for me is fine. So, that was not a case of "running into" someone I know, but really of doing sauna the Finnish way, which is, "we all work together, so lets go to the sauna together, drink together, etc." I remember reading that Nokia faced problems back in the 90s when it was internationalizing its staff. Being Finnish, there was a company sauna and lots of people - including the key managers - would hang out in it at the end of the work day. Naturally, as described above, lots of conversations occurred and a fair number of work-related decisions were made. But the non-Finns were not so comfortable in the sauna and felt like they were missing out on face-time with their bosses or that decisions were being made in an atmosphere that was not welcoming to them. So, Nokia had to change how it did things or face labor problems. That may explain how they went from being a mobile phone leader to being a footnote in the technology world. :-D

So, yeah, seeing boss and coworkers naked in the sauna only helps to reinforce the idea that when you strip someone of everything, then you see who they really are, literally and figuratively.