I shouldnt care...
poohpoohpeapod
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I go to a small gym, mostly oler people. I try to go everyday, and I sweat, intervals ect. Today, "oh my do you live here?" the other day "You are her all of the time". I have ignored it, this happens at the minimum 1 or 2 times a week. I almost feel shamed for working out. Do you ever deal with similar? your response?:huh:
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My current gym is loaded with old folks.
I have a love/hate relationship with them. I just smile and nod. They are just trying to be friendly and make small talk. They are retired, bored and are looking for some conversation.
My advice is to be nice and hope you get to be the old, annoying one someday.0 -
:laugh:If it's old people I would say right back " what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be dead?"0 -
I don't understand why that bothers you. They are just trying to be amusing, and make small talk. Can't you just be pleasant, and say something like "some days it feels like it" or maybe just nod and smile. Why is this a concern of your? I really don't get it.0
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I did the first 10 times, it is all of the time. Some are the same people. If I commented everday that you sure ate alot of lunch, at some point, would you tire of it? I am not sensitive, I just find it somewhat rude and tiresome. It is not said in an admiring or encouraging way for the most part. . I do not feel the need to defend nmyself for working out, or to placate bad manners by smiling and commeting.0
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What is wrong with you people????
Don't you have old relatives? Would you like somebody to tell your parents or grandparents that they should be dead? Some day you will be old too and I hope that you encounter a rude younger person so you get a taste of the same medicine.
I am old, and I go to a gym full of people my age or even older. They rock exercising even with limitations and canes, and they don't let those limitations be an excuse. I also get from them the same comments that the OP mentioned and they don't bother me at all. If they notice that I am at the gym all the time, it is because they are there often too.
By the way, I am retired but not bored. Too busy to know the meaning of boredom.
OP: you should join Gold's Gym where you can get a lot of younger men hitting on you.0 -
old is not an excuse or license to be rude0
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What is wrong with you people????
Don't you have old relatives? Would you like somebody to tell your parents or grandparents that they should be dead? Some day you will be old too and I hope that you encounter a rude younger person so you get a taste of the same medicine.
I am old, and I go to a gym full of people my age or even older. They rock exercising even with limitations and canes, and they don't let those limitations be an excuse. I also get from them the same comments that the OP mentioned and they don't bother me at all. If they notice that I am at the gym all the time, it is because they are there often too.
By the way, I am retired but not bored. Too busy to know the meaning of boredom.
OP: you should join Gold's Gym where you can get a lot of younger men hitting on you.
Calm down grams, it was a joke0 -
"oh my do you live here?" the other day "You are here all of the time".
I get this just for going to the grocery store more than twice a week. I live in Florida, lots of old folks in general. It's really nothing to get in a twist about, they're at the gym too so I doubt they're being or meaning anything negative by it. They're just trying to find something to talk about.
Don't be self-conscious, make conversation back if you want to, be positive, you might make some nice new older friends :happy:0 -
they're aren't making fun of you. that's how people make small talk with people that they don't know intimately. if you were outside they would talk about the weather. it's not personal0
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What is wrong with you people????
Don't you have old relatives? Would you like somebody to tell your parents or grandparents that they should be dead? Some day you will be old too and I hope that you encounter a rude younger person so you get a taste of the same medicine.
I am old, and I go to a gym full of people my age or even older. They rock exercising even with limitations and canes, and they don't let those limitations be an excuse. I also get from them the same comments that the OP mentioned and they don't bother me at all. If they notice that I am at the gym all the time, it is because they are there often too.
By the way, I am retired but not bored. Too busy to know the meaning of boredom.
OP: you should join Gold's Gym where you can get a lot of younger men hitting on you.
Calm down grams, it was a joke
You have a weird sense of humor, specially in the internet. By the way, I am " grams" to my grandchildren, to you is Ely.0 -
Odes--what an insensitive comment. Hopefully when you are old some young snot doesn't treat you that way!0
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old is not an excuse or license to be rude
Neither is youth.....0 -
Odes--what an insensitive comment. Hopefully when you are old some young snot doesn't treat you that way!
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OP: you should join Gold's Gym where you can get a lot of younger men hitting on you.
Haha, I hear that is actually a reason why a lot of girls leave that gym.
To the op: I used to work with old people for a few years. It is just their way of saying hi and making small talk. Like when you were younger and your grandma made some comment about school or your flower shoes, does she really care? probably not, but it's nice. The older generations are a lot more friendlier then ours and have more of a community feeling about themselves and others. So be nice back!0 -
man oh man, when did old people get so sensitive? which goes first, their sense of humor or their hearing?0
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kindness, consideration and patience and respect ...One day you will be old too. Sometimes people forget that older folk communicated by talking not texting, they made small talk, and got to know their neighbors and people that lived around them.
People are cold and heartless now days, everything is a smart *kitten* remark or made fun of, or ridiculed.
If someone talks to me everyday, I just say hi..answer and I am kind to them..because I may be the only person they have spoken to all day..maybe they are alone in this world..but, thats just me..I'm a softy for the human heart becuase I love people and know that everyone has struggles, being kind to someone will not kill you. JUst like another post stated imagine if that was your mother or father or grandparent. How would you want someone to treat them.
I hope you have a change of heart on how you see people..0 -
man oh man, when did old people get so sensitive? which goes first, their sense of humor or their hearing?
Agreed. I think someone is taking things the wrong way.0 -
man oh man, when did old people get so sensitive? which goes first, their sense of humor or their hearing?
Agreed. I think someone is taking things the wrong way.
I think this thread started with someone taking things the wrong way.0 -
man oh man, when did old people get so sensitive? which goes first, their sense of humor or their hearing?
Agreed. I think someone is taking things the wrong way.
I think this thread started with someone taking things the wrong way.
That's what I meant. :laugh: Thanks for translating Whierd!!!! :flowerforyou:0 -
That seems like a better problem than me thinking a commercial gym was better than the smaller local one. I thought I knew what "busy" was...
HOLY ****... never go to the gym on a Monday, Tuesday, after hours after school or work lets out and if you do a late night workout it has to be closer to 2-3+ AM because it's still crowded at midnight.0 -
I go to a small gym, mostly oler people. I try to go everyday, and I sweat, intervals ect. Today, "oh my do you live here?" the other day "You are her all of the time". I have ignored it, this happens at the minimum 1 or 2 times a week. I almost feel shamed for working out. Do you ever deal with similar? your response?:huh:
Wow you must have a very high regard for yourself. It's all about you! Must be terrible having to deal with the outside world...
But I have a suspision that this is a false post, no one could be that anti-social could they?0 -
I go to a small gym, mostly oler people. I try to go everyday, and I sweat, intervals ect. Today, "oh my do you live here?" the other day "You are her all of the time". I have ignored it, this happens at the minimum 1 or 2 times a week. I almost feel shamed for working out. Do you ever deal with similar? your response?:huh:
Wow you must have a very high regard for yourself. It's all about you! Must be terrible having to deal with the outside world...
But I have a suspision that this is a false post, no one could be that anti-social could they?
FABULOUS0 -
man oh man, when did old people get so sensitive? which goes first, their sense of humor or their hearing?
Agreed. I think someone is taking things the wrong way.
I think this thread started with someone taking things the wrong way.
Pissed off at idle gym chit chat is the MFP equivalent of pregnant women pissed off at "when are you due?" on baby boards and mom's being pissed at "what is her name/how old is he?" on mom boards.
Why do people get so mad about random banter?
Get off my lawn.0 -
What is wrong with you people????
Don't you have old relatives? Would you like somebody to tell your parents or grandparents that they should be dead? Some day you will be old too and I hope that you encounter a rude younger person so you get a taste of the same medicine.
I am old, and I go to a gym full of people my age or even older. They rock exercising even with limitations and canes, and they don't let those limitations be an excuse. I also get from them the same comments that the OP mentioned and they don't bother me at all. If they notice that I am at the gym all the time, it is because they are there often too.
By the way, I am retired but not bored. Too busy to know the meaning of boredom.
OP: you should join Gold's Gym where you can get a lot of younger men hitting on you.
Okay, so you're not bored. It just seams that way to me when I'm unsussesfully trying to make it on time to my job and wishing I had the time to sit and have a conversation.
Really, I do admire the older folks at the gym. Good on them and I hope I get there someday.0 -
man oh man, when did old people get so sensitive? which goes first, their sense of humor or their hearing?
Agreed. I think someone is taking things the wrong way.
I think this thread started with someone taking things the wrong way.
Pissed off at idle gym chit chat is the MFP equivalent of pregnant women pissed off at "when are you due?" on baby boards and mom's being pissed at "what is her name/how old is he?" on mom boards.
Why do people get so mad about random banter?
Get off my lawn.
and cut your hair and pull up your pants, whippersnappers0 -
man oh man, when did old people get so sensitive? which goes first, their sense of humor or their hearing?
Agreed. I think someone is taking things the wrong way.
I think this thread started with someone taking things the wrong way.
Pissed off at idle gym chit chat is the MFP equivalent of pregnant women pissed off at "when are you due?" on baby boards and mom's being pissed at "what is her name/how old is he?" on mom boards.
Why do people get so mad about random banter?
Get off my lawn.
and cut your hair and pull up your pants, whippersnappers
Don't tell them to pull up their pants. I have too much fun watching bloopers of them totally tripping themselves when they fall.0 -
kindness, consideration and patience and respect ...One day you will be old too. Sometimes people forget that older folk communicated by talking not texting, they made small talk, and got to know their neighbors and people that lived around them.
People are cold and heartless now days, everything is a smart *kitten* remark or made fun of, or ridiculed.
If someone talks to me everyday, I just say hi..answer and I am kind to them..because I may be the only person they have spoken to all day..maybe they are alone in this world..but, thats just me..I'm a softy for the human heart becuase I love people and know that everyone has struggles, being kind to someone will not kill you. JUst like another post stated imagine if that was your mother or father or grandparent. How would you want someone to treat them.
I hope you have a change of heart on how you see people..
^This for the truth----Its turned into a me-me -me world, you see it on the roads-on the phone and for sure on the internet. It just seems to get worse and worse---but then every once in a while you run into some one who isnt that way and its like a breath of fresh air. Being kind never hurts anyone--being a jerk in the wrong place could get you a bullet.0 -
I shouldnt care...
QFT.0 -
I shouldnt care...
QFT.
This!0 -
man oh man, when did old people get so sensitive? which goes first, their sense of humor or their hearing?
Agreed. I think someone is taking things the wrong way.
I think this thread started with someone taking things the wrong way.
Pissed off at idle gym chit chat is the MFP equivalent of pregnant women pissed off at "when are you due?" on baby boards and mom's being pissed at "what is her name/how old is he?" on mom boards.
Why do people get so mad about random banter?
Get off my lawn.
But i like your lawn.
It's so neat and tidy and well kept:flowerforyou:0
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