Jerk at the Gym
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I will ask people in the area if they are using a weight, a stool, a machine if they are in the vicinity of it. If no one says they are using it, it's fair game. I have actually taken equipment when there was a water bottle lying around, cause honestly I have left water bottles cause I just forgot. If someone has a problem with it tough, they shouldn't have left the equipment. If they wanna use it in the area I am using it I will let them work in otherwise tough cookies. On rare occassions, I have had someone come up and watch me using it, I simply say it's all yours when I am done if you don't want to work in. If they get all huffy and puffy, oh well, I pay my monthly fees to use it too. It does get annoying though fighting over equipment, which is why I am in the process of putting together home a couple different home workouts.0
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This is why I don't work out at the gym. Too many testosterone-fueled bullies. I had a similar thing happen. I had been waiting to do some bench presses. It's an exercise for big, strong men not small, weak women. But f* that--I was going to do 'em. Apparently this big, sweaty, greasy, bald, nasty-*kitten* mf had been using them. It takes a few minutes to unload someone else's weights and load your own on the bench press so he'd been gone long enough for me to think he was done. He came over and started barking at me. I just said, I didn't know you weren't done. Then I finished my set with him glaring at me over the bar. I should have just reported him as others have suggested--do that. He's a big, mean bully.0
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complete jerk... sorry to hear that. that's why i wear a hat and my ipod and blast the music.. just in case someone talks to me or about me i cant hear. he could have waited 10 more seconds. he was just being a jacka@@. you stated correct.0
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I had that happen once.. I had the only set of 15 pound dumbbells in the gym. This guy wants them and comes up to ask me how much longer, so I tell him.. and he goes ok, and then takes a lap around the gym, comes back, I tell him I'm still not done and he proceeds to stand in the doorway of the studio and stare at me until I finished.. I was like seriously..I will give you the dumbbells.. I promise!
Tell that jerk to F-off and go along your merry way... people have no tact sometimes.0 -
Everyone, thank you for all your comments. It truly made me feel better to get other opinions. I knew I wasn't wrong but I was so F'ing PISSED! Y'all are great!!0
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What an *kitten*!!! I hate people like that. Unfortunately, there will always be a few of those people around. Sounds like you handled yourself nicely & acted nothing remotely like a *****. Good job!0
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If there are several stools scattered throughout the gym then he could have just as easily gone and tried to intimidate someone else out of their stool according to him they weren't using. If no one is using it and no one is around to ask it is fair game. If you are there every day and you have never seen him before, next time you do see him report a previous encounter and don't acknowledge him. If anything you have more right to use it than he does.0
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I hate people like that. If you walk away from a piece of equipment for more than 3 minutes you're clearly not "using" it. If you really want to save it, put a towel on it or something to let people know you aren't finished with it.0
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A. he obviously didn't learn to share in the sandbox
B. you pay the same membership, you are entitled to the stool just as much as anyone there
C. stare back. and work out slower. and smile like it doesn't bother you!0 -
I don't know why people act that way. Maybe his mother held him too much as an infant. With some folks, you just don't know.0
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:explode: Oh yes ... all the clubs have a resident idiot who thinks they are entitled to the equipment, whether they were using it or not.
I would politely have said "I'm sorry, I didn't see your cloak of invisibility shielding this stool" or "I'm sorry, I didn't see all those invisible reps you WEREN'T doing" and then I would have ninja'd away with the stool under my arm.0 -
Hm. He sounds like an *kitten*. Any guy that calls a female a ***** is a boy, not a man.0
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"gym protocol" sez leave a personal item on a bench/stool that you're using so others know it's in use~0
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I think most gyms have this type of person. At ours, it seems that if you are female, you will be stared at when using the equipment in the free weight area. I rarely go over there if I go at night, since that seems to be when all the jerks come out. Good for you for holding your ground. Our jerks are equal opportunity jerks...they tend to start with anyone.0
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Ms. GI, I don't blame you for stomping on that jerk...0
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