meeting people you know at the resort

[ranul]

This is a question for people that are either young enough to remember when they were kids and have kids of there own.
Have you ever come across a family that lived in neighbourhood at a nude resort by surprise? How did you kids or you react to being nude with some one that may be seeing every day after you return home? I am looking more about the reaction of the opposite sex

[eagle59]

Why would you be concerned about this? I think it would be fantastic to meet neighbors at a nude resort, at least you both know that you have a common intrest and it could allow you to have a mutual group of friends for get togethers and what not. I would think it would be great!

[justnude]

First, if you are both at a resort I would assume you are both nudists so there should be an added "connection" rather then the implied moment of panic/shame.

As a former school principal, I have run into one of my school families (and children) while enjoying the resort with my family. We all juist had a great laugh and a wonderful day there.

[blackrebel]

There really should be no problem as I see it.

I was a co-host on a radio talk show and ran into a person I had met on my show. It ended up being a fun chuckle.

on a funny note, I had a friend who was an exotic dancer. She was an active PTA parent at her daughters' school. One day the school principal came into her club and they both had a very uneasy feelings. But, she did get a lot of tips from him and her proposals were taken much more seriously.

[ranul]

i never said that it would be any problem if it did happen to me.
I am just looking for tales of this happening .

[nimrod]

How would you react to meeting someone from a resort outside of that resort? Would it be strange to see them in their clothes?

[rone]

I would love to meet a nudist someone I know, either inside or outside a resort. It's lonely here in the Midwest USA for nudists. We are, indeed, a rare breed here.

How would you react to meeting someone from a resort outside of that resort? Would it be strange to see them in their clothes?

[benakkied]

I agree, In my area not many people seem to be in the life style or admitting it. They maybe like us, are concerned with the unstable with loose lips and strange ideas. We have to be very discreet where we go due to my friends profession. We would enjoy going to a resort and meeting some one there that we knew that was there for the same reason as we were.We might go more often if that happened. So go enjoy if you have a good place to go. If you saw someone that you knew let them come to you first.

[shaneone]

I'm with Rone on this. I would love to meet people I know. It would be som much easier to meet them at a resort or beach than dropping it into a conversation

[NudonyII]

This is a question for people that are either young enough to remember when they were kids and have kids of there own.
Have you ever come across a family that lived in neighbourhood at a nude resort by surprise? How did you kids or you react to being nude with some one that may be seeing every day after you return home? I am looking more about the reaction of the opposite sex

I would expect that you will get few responses specific to the question asked: since most people have to travel for nude recreation, the odds of running into a neighbor - with family members present - is probably fairly rare. Although - and I don't know if this is done much anymore - the local skinny-dipping spots in the more rural areas most certainly allowed the children of friends and neighbors to run into each other and see each other nude. But for a lot of people, I think it is more of a "back in the day" thing.

Well, in my case, having grown up in Europe during the "topfree explosion", I have ran into classmates and neighbors at the lake or local pool sunbathing topless; one or two classmates I ran into sunbathing nude. Well, being a young kid and suddenly seeing someone - whom I've habitually seen with clothes on - sunbathing topless or nude; there is evidently an "Omygaaaawsh!!!" moment. But in all cases, that initial shocked moment quickly faded; probably because that was such a common occurrence back then. Did it consequently affect my perception or relationship with them? Nope; not in the least. Except that I would know what the person behind the clothes looked like.

[Yasehtor]

Just this past summer we were at a resort on Prince Edward Island that is about a 3 hour drive from where we live. On the last day we were sitting around the pool talking with others. The sun was in my eyes so I couldn't see one of the fellows I was talking with real well. After a few minutes, he said " By the way I think we know one another" Shading my eyes and looking more closely I saw that it was indeed someone I run into a work on occasion. We had a good laugh and carried on our conversation. What made things a little stranger was about a month after that incident we were traveling in the eastern U.S. and staying at a nudist park in New England. It was our last day there and the owner came over and said " You have visitors." It turns out the same couple we met in P.E.I. had been in the area and just had to find a spot to get their clothes off. They had not been in the park for long and the woman told the owner, "Hey, I know that car". We had a nice brief but nice chat; unfortunately we were heading home within the next hour or two. Since then we have touched base and hope to get together to share our experiences. We think it is great to meet other naturists, even if we already know them from some other aspect of our lives. Just means we have more in common to share with one another.

[JeepNude]

I had a co-worker of mine ask me to take him to the resort to check it out. After he got the mandatory tour (he took it nude), we walked aroudn the lake and goofed off all day, had dinner with resident friends, etc. Next day at work, business as usual. No big deal.

Also, ran into my insurance guy at the resort. Well, actually, I had done business with him over the phone for a couple years and eventually had a reason to visit the office in person. I met with him and he looked REAL familiar. I put 2 and 2 together and so did he. He told me "You look stupid with clothes on." I replied, "So do you." And we had a great laugh. Best insurance partner my business or I have ever had.

[Longhairbear]

I have been in a similar situation all my life. I'm gay, and in my younger days, always worried about being "found out". Friends always pointed out, that when in a gay bar, everyone else was there for the same reason.
So, one day at a nude resort, I hear someone from across the pool yell my name, and ask if it was I. He was someone that I knew years ago from back east. I admitted it was I, what else is there to do?

[atalanta]

If you saw someone that you knew let them come to you first.

Following that rule no-one would ever talk to anybody except strangers.

[newbies68]

While we were at our nudist resort on a friday, my hubby and i were sitting there and noticed on the other side of the pool his secretary. We didnt think it was her till he called the office and found out she called off sick. After 20 min of debating weather to go talk to her, she got up and went to the bathroom. We moved to chairs rows behind her, she didnt notice us then i just said oh well and walked up. Boy the shock on her face seeing us. Then she asked where hubby was and told her right behind her. She covered up for 5 min then was like oh well... had a blast and they had no discomfort at work at all over it.... Now someone to join us when we go:)

[nimrod]

Following that rule no-one would ever talk to anybody except strangers.

Thank you for that, I was going to say the same thing.

[usuallylurk]

After 30 years of nudism, it's happened to me several times.

At Cedar Waters, at least five times in 13 years.

When I was a member of the old Birch Acres, I met three folks I knew from "outside".

At Maine Coast Solar Bares, there's a member, who has been a good friend of mine for 35 years... several years before either of us got into nudism.

[Mosquito_Bait]

This has happened to me a few times:

Once, I saw a fellow I had worked with at a nudist park. He was in the midst of a volleyball game, so I don't think he noticed me. A couple of years later our paths crossed again on the Internet and we had a good discussion about the nudist places we had visited.

Another time my wife and I were at an RV dealership. The salesman told us that he used his RV virtually every weekend during the warmer months. It was then that I realized I had seen him before at a nearby nudist park.

More recently we were at a home show and met a gentlemen who said that he was sure he had met us somewhere before. I couldn't think of where that might have been. Later, my wife realized it had been at a nudist park. The gentleman had been emphatic about having met us. I am sure he realized where. He probably was just trying to jog our memories without blurting out the name of the place in public.

[vanesa1017]

While we were at our nudist resort on a friday, my hubby and i were sitting there and noticed on the other side of the pool his secretary. We didnt think it was her till he called the office and found out she called off sick. After 20 min of debating weather to go talk to her, she got up and went to the bathroom. We moved to chairs rows behind her, she didnt notice us then i just said oh well and walked up. Boy the shock on her face seeing us. Then she asked where hubby was and told her right behind her. She covered up for 5 min then was like oh well... had a blast and they had no discomfort at work at all over it.... Now someone to join us when we go:)

What a cool experience Newbies. It is great to know that you all becoame comfortable and now go nude together.

[Fitz1980]

I actually ran into a woman who worked with my Dad at a nudist park in GA. I was like 20 at the time and still lived at home. My parents had no idea that I had ever been to a nudist park. She just happened to mention working for the same company as him so I asked her if she knew him. She immediately knew who he was and started getting nervous that I would tell him that I had seen her there. I told her not to worry as my parents had no clue I was into nudism either. That's the nice thing about running into someone at a nudist place, anyone you meet will be there for the same reason so they won't think you are weird for being there and would understand the need for discretion.

That said my old roommate had a friend who wanted to come with us to Haulover Beach but her fiance wouldn't have been cool with it. She never did come because they both worked at the local, mega-casino/resort/hotel and know lots of people; she was afraid of running into someone who they both knew who might mention to her fiance "hey I saw your girl at the nude beach."

[nude826]

What an interesting question. I, like so many of you, was not raised in a nudist environment. In fact, just the opposite. In addition, my life has been spent mostly in church, in a very consersative denomination in which nudism was never even mentioned as an option. It was unthinkable.

So, when I became a nudist as a middle aged man, I wondered what I would do if I ever met anyone who I knew at a resort. My thinking was that if they were there, we probably shared the common interest. The possibility never deterred me from going to a resort whenever possible.

Well, if finally happened. I ran into a man, older than I, who had been a professor at the local university. He had moved right after my freshman year, so it had been a long, long time since I had seen him. The interesting thing is that I had not known him as a professor, but as the choir director of our church choir from many many years earlier. There he was, naked as I, and planning to move to the resort. I was so excited that I told him that I was going to tell my 90 yr old mother, who had been a very important member of the choir, that I had met him. He said, "No, no, no. Tell her you met me at a restaurant. We still have friends in that town."

What a shame that we have to be so secretive about our love of nudism, that we have to learn about our friends' nudism by accident, that we can't share it with others (especially church members). What a shame!

But, for now, that's the way it is.

Phil

[NJNude1965]

I was at a nude beach and an old friend of mine from collage comes walking down the beach I was a little surpised, but it was like seeing an old friend any place else we talked and became friends again.

Sorry to say I don't see my old friend anymore.

[Rick_42]

I have yet to meet anyone from work at a nudis venue but, if I did, I don't imagine it would be anything to worry about. After all, they're there for the same reason I am. Of course, I'd respect their privacy and be discrete about it outside the resort if that's what they wished. On the other hand, it could lead to a closer friendship with that person.

[zad]

I would so love to meet someone I knoew at anudist venue. My partner isn't really into nudism as much as I am and pretty much only goes for me. If we ran into someone we knew, she would be forced to deal with the situation and that would probably be good in the long run.

[HabaneroSting]

I'm more concerned about the opposite; running into someone you know from the nudist group in the textile world. You would have the awkward, "Hey, I didn't recognize you with your clothes on." thing happening. Non-nudists probably would not understand.

[vanesa1017]

This has never happened to me at the beach, but once I was going to the beach and ran into one of my students families on the train on the way to the beach. They had their beach bag and stuff and we talked for a bit and even rode some of the way on the train together. They were going to a different beach, not the c/o beach, but it still was a very :eek: moment for me. Not that it would have been bad, but a little awkward at first for sure.

[Triker]

One time, a woman that I worked with, pinched my *** first thing monday morning , and told me that she saw me at the nude beach over the weekend.

[jaypac33]

my friend called me and asked me to come over to his house to help him fix his toilet, it was leaking. When I arrived I went around the back toward the pool area and there she was. My friend or his wife chancing in the cabana with the door open. I saw everything but she did not see me, I went back the way I came and to the front door.

This is not the only time that has happened at this pool.

[jaypac33]

while at a party at my friends pool a lady went into the changing room which had a half glass door with a straw shade of some kind. She went in the suit came off and I saw her nude. She was looking out at me but I don t think she could see me.

[Naturist Zoar]

A new coffee shop recently opened in a downtown building about 3 blocks from my office.
It 's great coffee and I stop by there about 3x a week. I noticed the security guard on several occasions , and thought he looked familiar but then I realized a few days lago, he was a regular at the nude beach in Zoar Valley. Needless to say, his tan sure has faded.

[risunbum]

Two years ago while visiting a nudist club which is 1 1/2 hours from my home I ran into a friend of mine from town, after the initial laugh of meeting, we found out we were both members of the club. Similiar experience several weeks later as I ran into a friend who I deal with on a professional level who also was a member of the club. Both experiences were fun and gives us more to talk about when we see each other in a textile enviorement.

[narod]

I can't say that Iv'e had that happen at a resort. However, while at a nude beach, I had a former student (at that time in college) see me assisting a Wave Runner rider who had run a ground while riding too close to the shore. There were a bunch of guys helping him get the Wave Runner off the beach and back in the water. My former student was too shy to come over and talk. (so he told me later) Three days after the beach visit, I was assigned to Jury Duty. Who else was on Jury Duty? That same, former student. He came in, and sat with me. I took a bit, but he finally got up enough nerve to ask me if I had been to the Beach. He said he thought he saw me helping with a Wave Runner on the sand. He said he wasnt' sure it was me, since I had lost so much weight (70 pounds). Well, needless so say, we had a good time passing the time, talking. We both ended up on the same Jury, and sat together the entire time.

[Peter B]

Many years ago, when going to another nudist club in Auckland, New Zealand, I bumped into a child whch I had taught a year ago
The strange thing was that the girl was emberassed, I was not.
It created a bond with her for a while, while she was still in the same school, but in another class.

This is now at least 20 years in the past, but it stays in my memory how odd nudity can be and how wrongly it is percieved

[Duneman]

We go to a local unofficial c/o beach near where I live.
I came across a woman co-worker and her husband one day! At first we didn't know where to look or what to say!!

When I saw her at work later that week..... I said "morning J _ _ _ _ _ boy, I've been seeing a lot of you lately!" She just grinned and shook her fist!

Duneman

[walter05]

It was not at a nudist event, but at the Stegman pool at UGA.

I was taking some graduate courses, and a couple of recently graduated guys were there.

The urinals and showers are in the open. As I was urinating, they came in and said hello. Then we met up again in the showers.

One of them said he felt funny seeing his teacher naked and being seen naked.

I told him that is how we take showers. He laughed, and that was it.

Over the next few months, we often saw each other there. He got used to seeing me nude and being seen nude.

Walter

[ken0254]

One time, a woman that I worked with, pinched my *** first thing monday morning , and told me that she saw me at the nude beach over the weekend.

So did you ever go back to the beach again together? Do you guys still work together?

[sanua_chap]

I'm more concerned about the opposite; running into someone you know from the nudist group in the textile world. You would have the awkward, "Hey, I didn't recognize you with your clothes on." thing happening. Non-nudists probably would not understand.

I have not quite managed this with a naturist group, but some years ago I had some interesting conversations with a girl in the sauna we both used, and a bit later we met on the high street. She said hello, and then I worked out who it was.

I said, "I have always wanted to say this to someone... but I'm sorry, I didn't recognise you with your clothes on."

She smiled.

[REMITROM]

Many years ago I was living with a woman who was an art student taking figure drawing. I often modeled for her but she was looking for female models to draw as well. We lived in a two-family house and our landlady was a year or two younger than us but very modest. More as a joke than anything, I told her of my roommate's need for a nude model and was shocked when she agreed...BUT with the stipulation that I be out of the apartment when she modeled. I agreed immediately.

When the proposed time came she was a no-show so I didn't leave but instead stripped to be a replacement model since my roommate had already set up her materials to sketch. We didn't hear a knock on the back door (probably due to the volume of the background music) and suddenly in walked the landlady in her bathrobe.

She got that "deer-in-the-headlights" expression when she saw me; not only still there, but nude! We explained that when she wasn't there at the appointed time we thought she had gotten cold feet and so I volunteered to substitute. I told her that I would just let my roommate finish what she was working on and then I'd dress and leave as promised.

When she finished, the landlady said that since she'd been looking at me naked for a while it wasn't necessary for me to leave while she posed. But that was the ONLY time she agreed to model.

About five years later, after we'd moved, we were at Dyer Woods in RI. When we arrived people we knew kept telling us there was a new couple there from our hometown playing volleyball. Since it was a city of over 90,000 people, we assumed we wouldn't know them and just brushed it off by saying, "That's nice."

When the game ended the couple came over to the area where we were tanning and we were mutually surprised to find that our former landlords had joined their former tenants and had become nudists. That led to several joint trips to other nude and clothing-optional venues over the next few years.

[arakam]

I dont really go to any resorts but last year I started using our local sauna out here regularly and have so far met my former employer, a neighbour from up the road and two of my customers, I guess clothes or no clothes you still recognise people you know :D:D

And as far as reactions go there was no embarressment or anything like that, it seemed to make the relationships with them more bonding than they already were :laugh:

[vanesa1017]

Many years ago I was living with a woman who was an art student taking figure drawing. I often modeled for her but she was looking for female models to draw as well. We lived in a two-family house and our landlady was a year or two younger than us but very modest. More as a joke than anything, I told her of my roommate's need for a nude model and was shocked when she agreed...BUT with the stipulation that I be out of the apartment when she modeled. I agreed immediately.

When the proposed time came she was a no-show so I didn't leave but instead stripped to be a replacement model since my roommate had already set up her materials to sketch. We didn't hear a knock on the back door (probably due to the volume of the background music) and suddenly in walked the landlady in her bathrobe.

She got that "deer-in-the-headlights" expression when she saw me; not only still there, but nude! We explained that when she wasn't there at the appointed time we thought she had gotten cold feet and so I volunteered to substitute. I told her that I would just let my roommate finish what she was working on and then I'd dress and leave as promised.

When she finished, the landlady said that since she'd been looking at me naked for a while it wasn't necessary for me to leave while she posed. But that was the ONLY time she agreed to model.

About five years later, after we'd moved, we were at Dyer Woods in RI. When we arrived people we knew kept telling us there was a new couple there from our hometown playing volleyball. Since it was a city of over 90,000 people, we assumed we wouldn't know them and just brushed it off by saying, "That's nice."

When the game ended the couple came over to the area where we were tanning and we were mutually surprised to find that our former landlords had joined their former tenants and had become nudists. That led to several joint trips to other nude and clothing-optional venues over the next few years.

What a fun story. Thanks so much for sharing, really brought a smile to my face:)

[Aardvark]

At one of the AANR-SW regional events I ran into someone who was a regular customer at the bookstore where I had worked until a few months prior. We did the confused look with one eyebrow raised at each other until we could talk and figure out where we knew each other. After we figured it out, we laughed about the "I didn't quite recognize you - go put some clothes on!" :)

Also did have the reverse not long after. I was supposed to meet someone socially that I'd met at a 5k, but it took a fair while for us to recognize each other with clothes on.

[socaln8iv]

A couple of years ago I was at a conference in San Diego for a week. During the morning they had seminars, then in the afternoon they opened to convention center booths. On Wednesday afternoon they arranged site seeing tours & trips to Sea World, I opted out & went to Blacks Beach. I had been there for a little over an hour when a woman carrying a boogie board walked up to me and said "you decided not to attend the tours either". I didn't recognize her, but started talking to her, turns out she and her husband were part of the conference and she sat next to me at the HR seminar. They had set their towels only a few feet from me and she said she was waiting for the right opportunity to talk to me. Later that night at the cocktail party, I met other collegues of theirs, but they didn't want anyone else know where they spent the afternoon.

[riptidenj]

I met a woman I knew from another activity at a pool party. Since I was keeping the doorkeeper company I was clothed and she wasn't.