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No my locker rooms

During high school, then college (all male, by the way), I spent a lot of time in locker rooms, wrestling, football, P.E., etc., plus another six years in the Army, including mostly with infantry units where most of the guys hadn’t even graduated from high school.

There were just a few guys who stand out for lewd “locker room” comments during those 14 years and hundreds of memorable males. And they tended to be low-end guys trying to use shock value to impress anyone around with gross crudities and were generally looked on, usually with a small smile and shake of the head, as dirtbags or the like.

Trump apparently didn’t spend much time, if any, in locker rooms growing up, and he certainly didn’t serve in the Armed Forces. So where did he come up with his locker room talk? Country club locker rooms?

Bob Gregson

Spokane

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