Is this rude, or am I just exaggerating the issue

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  • astrose00
    astrose00 Posts: 754 Member
    DavPul wrote: »
    I hate when people are all up in my personal space... When I'm in line at the grocery store it always seems someone wants to try to crawl into my back pocket... So I've solved the problem.... I quietly take the divider bar, that you place on the conveyor belt behind your groceries and the next person's, and I lay it on the ground a few feet behind me... They get the message to BACK OFF pretty quickly.

    that may be the single most crazy thing i've heard all day.

    Yeah, this is in the running for me as well...
  • goddessofawesome
    goddessofawesome Posts: 563 Member
    astrose00 wrote: »
    DavPul wrote: »
    I hate when people are all up in my personal space... When I'm in line at the grocery store it always seems someone wants to try to crawl into my back pocket... So I've solved the problem.... I quietly take the divider bar, that you place on the conveyor belt behind your groceries and the next person's, and I lay it on the ground a few feet behind me... They get the message to BACK OFF pretty quickly.

    that may be the single most crazy thing i've heard all day.

    Yeah, this is in the running for me as well...

    I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure they weren't serious.
  • karyabc
    karyabc Posts: 830 Member
    Vlaw21117 wrote: »
    I thought this website was a place people came to find encouragement and support others. So instead of empathetic to someone with a health issue that is in a GYM trying to improve themselves you decided it was better to judge her then come to a forum to further degrade this woman. I guess it is true that hurt people hurt people. I guess all those times people looked at your fat rolls with disgust gives you the right look down on others. How dare you and others call people WEIRD and to hell with your social etiquette. I hate cigarette smoke just like most non smokers but that does not give me a license treat others as less than myself. Check your ego because your little 4 miles on treadmill isn't *kitten*!!! Fatties Vs. Smokers how ridiculous.

    I must say strong first post! *not sarcasm* (*). you do make a point there.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    I was going to post a "NOPE" gif for Vlaw then saw this. I think it sends the right message. I'm not sure what the appropriate audience is, but it's very much the right message.

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  • astrose00
    astrose00 Posts: 754 Member
    astrose00 wrote: »
    DavPul wrote: »
    I hate when people are all up in my personal space... When I'm in line at the grocery store it always seems someone wants to try to crawl into my back pocket... So I've solved the problem.... I quietly take the divider bar, that you place on the conveyor belt behind your groceries and the next person's, and I lay it on the ground a few feet behind me... They get the message to BACK OFF pretty quickly.

    that may be the single most crazy thing i've heard all day.

    Yeah, this is in the running for me as well...

    I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure they weren't serious.

    I'm not pretty sure. When I'm kidding, I usually throw in an "lol" or some other indicator that my statements are in jest or pure fantasy. No biggie, though.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,984 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    DavPul wrote: »
    dbmata wrote: »
    Have any vicks vaporub? Stick a smear of it beneath each nostril.

    Y R U TRYING TO KILL THE OP?
    I posted that with the off chance that someone would actually try it... lol.

    I used to do that when I was in my kenpo tournament days to keep my head clear.
    Lol, back in the day it was ammonia capsules.

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  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    dbmata wrote: »
    DavPul wrote: »
    dbmata wrote: »
    Have any vicks vaporub? Stick a smear of it beneath each nostril.

    Y R U TRYING TO KILL THE OP?
    I posted that with the off chance that someone would actually try it... lol.

    I used to do that when I was in my kenpo tournament days to keep my head clear.
    Lol, back in the day it was ammonia capsules.

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    I went to the pharmacy to ask if they had those, for lifting, right?

    Pharmacist said to me, in front of his intern... "What's ammonia?"

    I just looked at him and walked away shaking my head.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,984 Member
    A-FREAKIN-MEN! I am sensitive to that scent too! At my gym it gets pretty crowded when I go but I still try to spread out if I can. If someone gets on next to me I assume it is because no other machines are empty but when I go at night when it isn't as busy and someone gets on next to me I keep my pepper spray close (it's on my keys which I keep with me) or I move/switch machines or leave. That's so rude and creepy when people do that!
    Lol, while there might be some creeps out there, most people don't give a hoot about what you're doing or where you are in the gym. It might be the treadmill they love.
    Here's a question:
    If someone came up and said "Hey, do you mind if I use this treadmill?", I'm betting dollars to donuts that most of the "offended" people here would initially say no. Why? Because they don't want to be "rude".

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,984 Member
    edited January 2015
    There's a lady in my Zumba class who, despite the room being roomy and almost empty, chooses to stand right next to people to the point where shoulders almost touch. Some people just don't understand the personal space concept and those people are quite irritating
    Or they don't know about it. Heck, in my culture practically everyone when meeting at a family party, even for the first time, gives a hug/kiss because it's just what we do. Of course we handle it differently outside of parties, but if someone who's not used to it came in, they may get freaked out a bit.

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,984 Member
    I hate when people are all up in my personal space... When I'm in line at the grocery store it always seems someone wants to try to crawl into my back pocket... So I've solved the problem.... I quietly take the divider bar, that you place on the conveyor belt behind your groceries and the next person's, and I lay it on the ground a few feet behind me... They get the message to BACK OFF pretty quickly.
    Lol, I would have got up close and said "you dropped this."

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  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    I hate when people are all up in my personal space... When I'm in line at the grocery store it always seems someone wants to try to crawl into my back pocket... So I've solved the problem.... I quietly take the divider bar, that you place on the conveyor belt behind your groceries and the next person's, and I lay it on the ground a few feet behind me... They get the message to BACK OFF pretty quickly.
    Lol, I would have got up close and said "you dropped this."

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    WHILE breathing heavy.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,984 Member
    Vlaw21117 wrote: »
    I thought this website was a place people came to find encouragement and support others. So instead of empathetic to someone with a health issue that is in a GYM trying to improve themselves you decided it was better to judge her then come to a forum to further degrade this woman. I guess it is true that hurt people hurt people. I guess all those times people looked at your fat rolls with disgust gives you the right look down on others. How dare you and others call people WEIRD and to hell with your social etiquette. I hate cigarette smoke just like most non smokers but that does not give me a license treat others as less than myself. Check your ego because your little 4 miles on treadmill isn't *kitten*!!! Fatties Vs. Smokers how ridiculous.
    People will always complain about something that may not jive with them. In a public place, unless it's against the law, many people still think that the world revolves just around them and that behavior that they don't condone should be followed by everyone else.
    There's etiquette (wiping a machine down after using it, IE) and there's perception of what others believe should be etiquette.

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,984 Member
    lolz. careful, guys, we've got an internet badass here who makes LEGAL CHOICES! woah! total tuff gai!

    If you're referring to me, I never claimed to be a bad *kitten*. I just don't give a *kitten* about what people who mean nothing to me think. There is a significant difference.
    I'm like this. If people freak out about what I wear, how I carry myself or whether or not I dance in the weight room while working out (sometimes I do), that's their issue to deal with.

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  • jenniferplankenhorn
    edited January 2015
    You are over reacting!
  • Falcon
    Falcon Posts: 853 Member
    You are over reacting!
    no need to be mallow dramatic
  • Mistraal1981
    Mistraal1981 Posts: 453 Member
    Now, I totally get that there is an unspoken social rule about not being next to someone if there is space, HOWEVER, I for one am a creature of habit. The gym I go to has a row of 10 treadmills. I use the same one every time. If someone is on "mine" and I have to use another it kinda throws me and it just doesn't feel right and I feel I'm not getting a good workout. As soon as they get off it I get off the one I'm using and get on it.

    With that in mind, yes. I will use "my" machine regardless of whether its right next to the only other person in the gym.
  • goddessofawesome
    goddessofawesome Posts: 563 Member
    edited January 2015
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    If someone came up and said "Hey, do you mind if I use this treadmill?", I'm betting dollars to donuts that most of the "offended" people here would initially say no. Why? Because they don't want to be "rude".

    Yup. But if they don't ask and then just hop on the machine next to you they're the "rude" ones.


  • goldthistime
    goldthistime Posts: 3,213 Member
    I have, on occasion, moved to another treadmill/elliptical when the person beside me has b.o. or just makes me uncomfortable for some reason, but I head to the bathroom for a moment first. Less awkward.

    A bit like when I am at the grocery store and there is a cart partially blocking an aisle and there is a someone heading towards the bottleneck from one direction just as I am heading from another. If it's a guy, very often he stops and feigns interest in something on the shelf near him so I can pass through first.
  • sheepotato
    sheepotato Posts: 600 Member
    edited January 2015
    Vlaw21117 wrote: »
    I thought this website was a place people came to find encouragement and support others. So instead of empathetic to someone with a health issue that is in a GYM trying to improve themselves you decided it was better to judge her then come to a forum to further degrade this woman. I guess it is true that hurt people hurt people. I guess all those times people looked at your fat rolls with disgust gives you the right look down on others. How dare you and others call people WEIRD and to hell with your social etiquette. I hate cigarette smoke just like most non smokers but that does not give me a license treat others as less than myself. Check your ego because your little 4 miles on treadmill isn't *kitten*!!! Fatties Vs. Smokers how ridiculous.

    Sometimes supporting means people is giving them a safe place to rant about things that annoy them so they can vent their frustration instead of bottling them up. It's not hurting the anonymous woman at the gym.

    Your post degrades it's target audience, that seems a lot more intentionally harmful.
  • BlueBombers
    BlueBombers Posts: 4,064 Member
    The worst is when people who haven't showered in like 6 months have to sit, stand, walk, workout, breathe etc. right beside you.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
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  • chuck636
    chuck636 Posts: 258 Member
    Wow lol...this became quite the topic
  • Phrick
    Phrick Posts: 2,765 Member
    edited January 2015
    TR0berts wrote: »
    Eh, on the whole, I think you're probably not overreacting.

    That said, did that person simply grab the nearest treadmill? Or, for that matter, the treadmill the furthest away, so that she got a few more steps in? Maybe, for whatever reason, she likes that particular treadmill? My point is that maybe there's a particular reason she chose that treadmill - you just happened to be next to it.

    This, I'll pick whatever treadmill I like - in my gym that's the one that's most in-line with the air conditioning vent. If you happen to be on the one next to that one, so sorry (I guess?) but that's the treadmill I want and I'm not going to let you being on the one next to it, stop me...

    maybe I'm oblivious, then? Whatever.

    ETA: Jeez, when I started replying there were only 2 pages LOL. Teach me to walk away and come back without checking!
  • bulbadoof
    bulbadoof Posts: 1,058 Member
    the smell of cigarette smoke is revolting. i'd have said something nasty in your position. kudos for taking the high road.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    Vlaw21117 wrote: »
    I thought this website was a place people came to find encouragement and support others. So instead of empathetic to someone with a health issue that is in a GYM trying to improve themselves you decided it was better to judge her then come to a forum to further degrade this woman. I guess it is true that hurt people hurt people. I guess all those times people looked at your fat rolls with disgust gives you the right look down on others. How dare you and others call people WEIRD and to hell with your social etiquette. I hate cigarette smoke just like most non smokers but that does not give me a license treat others as less than myself. Check your ego because your little 4 miles on treadmill isn't *kitten*!!! Fatties Vs. Smokers how ridiculous.

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  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    dbmata wrote: »
    DavPul wrote: »
    dbmata wrote: »
    Have any vicks vaporub? Stick a smear of it beneath each nostril.

    Y R U TRYING TO KILL THE OP?
    I posted that with the off chance that someone would actually try it... lol.

    I used to do that when I was in my kenpo tournament days to keep my head clear.

    Have you ever accidentally smeared some inside a nostril? It will make you excel in all thing.
    No, but there was a tiger balm incident that got me off the stuff for life.

    Similar container to lube and the lights were off?
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    edited January 2015
    ner'mind
  • cbhubbybubble
    cbhubbybubble Posts: 465 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    Why the hell was a smoker on the treadmill? I mean isnt that like a diet coke and candy bar?

    Why not? The two things are not mutually exclusive.
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    edited January 2015
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    Why the hell was a smoker on the treadmill? I mean isnt that like a diet coke and candy bar?

    Why not? The two things are not mutually exclusive.

    Yes yes I know... just seems counter intuitive. my husband ran his best 5K as a smoker.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    Why the hell was a smoker on the treadmill? I mean isnt that like a diet coke and candy bar?

    Why not? The two things are not mutually exclusive.

    Yes yes I know... just seems counter intuitive. my husband ran his best 5K as a smoker.

    So you were just sharing with the group what you likely shared with your husband many times, huh?
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