Dear Abby: Would the woman in the gym want to know what her pants are doing?

DEAR ABBY: My fitness center has three rows of treadmills and ellipticals. One particular woman usually selects the front row.

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Like many in the gym, she wears tight leggings, which is fine. However, hers are stretched so thin across her buttocks that the fabric is semi-transparent.

Although this is unsightly, it is not a huge deal to me, and I simply don’t look her way. I wonder, though, if folks would generally prefer that someone gently mention tricky issues like this to them.

It reminds me of seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on a shoe or a skirt hem caught in the waistband.

— LOOKING THE OTHER WAY

DEAR LOOKING: I’m glad you asked before trying to be helpful. In a case like this, it would be better to keep looking the other way rather than address your fellow