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@dooks
That's happened to me on many occasions. Especially when I started in a new office and was riding in from afar in cycling shorts. I'm better prepared now (and have mudguards).
In my first week here however i did not, and arriving with a very wet arse discovered there was someone in the blokes changing room. The women's was empty so I just used that. They're just little one-person at a time cubicles with a shower and a bench in them so what difference does it make right?
I hung up my wet stuff (including pants) to dry as normal only to have some annoying girl come out an hour later going "EWWW! WHO LEFT THEIR WET PANTS IN THE LADIES CHANGING ROOMS!" right across the office as if I was some pervy, pissy pant-planting psycho. Thanks for that. Personally I think it made her look stupid for making a big fat fuss about nothing. She really did try and make me look like a nutter though.
Other occasions I have forgotten pants and been faced with the choice of spending a day of meetings wearing either of the following under the rather slim-fitting (i.e. too tight) suit trousers:
a - swimming trunks (very tight when dry and surpringly slippery)
b - padded cyling shorts (feels and looks like you're wearing a nappy)
c - nothing (extremely visible and potentially dangerous)
It's a minefield I tell you. I usually go for the speedos in that situation. It's hysterically uncomfortable but at least safe. I have since taken to keeping a set emergency pants and socks stashed in the dark recesses of my bag at all times.
Traumatic memories.