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My gym isn\u2019t a very large gym.\u00a0 Considering the small number of tenants in the building, the people who do come on the regular are pretty familiar with the existences of one another, even if we ultimately have no idea who we are.\u00a0 That being said, I think it\u2019s never a good idea to exorcise bad habits around people you coexist with on the regular.<\/span><\/p>\n Every now and then, I\u2019d come into the gym, and there was typical asshole evidence of gymslobs; weights left all over the place, not putting anything back, most likely nothing wiped down either.\u00a0 But when you\u2019re the only one(s) there, you feel like you can get away with being a slob, so a slob they were.<\/span><\/p>\n This is something that asshole gymslobs can get away with at like an LA Fitness or a Gold\u2019s Gym, gyms so crowded and churning with people, that it would be nigh impossible to pinpoint who the culprits were.\u00a0 But at a tiny office gym the size of mine, it wouldn\u2019t take long to narrow down the list of regulars who come, especially if one were so determined to run the badge log to see who has accessed the gym on a given day.<\/span><\/p>\n Today, I went into the gym, and these two dudes whom I occasionally have overlapped with were there.\u00a0 Typically, they\u2019re fairly early goers, but I guess their schedule had something that made them be there when they were there today, overlapping with my time there somewhat.\u00a0 But I noticed the two of them hit the lockers, leaving all of the shit they used all over the place; a barbell laying out on the floor, a few dumbbells left out on a bench rolled into a very inconvenient place.<\/span><\/p>\n Normally, I wouldn\u2019t say anything to anyone about it and just grumble internally or blast them amongst my friends in group chats.\u00a0 Society has conditioned everyone to avoid not just conflict, but just speaking to people anymore, and in doing such, invites people to be dicks and exorcise dick behaviors like being a slob at the gym and not putting the shit they use away like any normal civilized considerate human beings.<\/span><\/p>\n But I don\u2019t know, I didn\u2019t feel like letting it slide today, and I thought to myself that if I addressed them calmly and without any aggression, I could at least make them aware that what they were doing wasn\u2019t acceptable.<\/span><\/p>\n I happened to catch them on their way out of the locker room, and with my hands, I got their attention by pointing to the area of the gym which they left a mess.\u00a0 I just simply said to them, hey guys, sorry to bug you, but could you put all those weights away?\u00a0 I thought you guys might\u2019ve been coming back out, but if you guys are done, could you please put those weights away?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n And then the funny thing happened, they didn\u2019t scoff, put up a fuss or show any sort of defiance, they were just like, oh my bad, yeah<\/em>, and then went to go pick up after themselves and put their shit back; not perfectly back in order like they probably started, but baby steps here.\u00a0 I said thanks to them, sorry to bug y\u2019all, but thanks<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n Granted, after they left the gym, they probably muttered about that fuckin\u2019 Chinese guy on their way and in the elevators, and I\u2019ve probably made gym nemeses now and should probably start considering bringing a lock to the gym to protect my shit from now on, but the point remains, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m in the wrong for calling out poor behavior, and by doing so in a calm and best-as-I-could non-confrontational manner, the poor behavior was corrected.<\/span><\/p>\n If I or anyone else never said anything to these guys, the behavior would undoubtedly continue, and honestly, one of these days, someone could get hurt, the gym would get shut down, and everyone loses.\u00a0 At the end of the day, the people who have to straighten the gym out are the custodians, which are comprised of entirely smaller and older Hispanic women, and they shouldn\u2019t have to be responsible for lugging around 30s, 40s and the 50s that some assholes left on the floor, and I would sooner straighten them out myself before them.<\/span><\/p>\n I get that people don\u2019t like being told or even asked what to do, but if they didn\u2019t do shitty things to begin with, then it wouldn\u2019t ever have to happen. \u00a0This was entirely a situation where the only reason why correction occurred is because the violation was caught.<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t have a lot of faith that this won\u2019t happen again, but at least these guys are aware that if they\u2019re unlucky to be working out when I\u2019m there, it\u2019ll sit in their back of their minds that I just might call them out on their bullshit laziness, and as much as I don\u2019t want to invite engagement, I\u2019m hoping that they\u2019ll want to avoid getting called out again and just do the right fucking thing in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My gym isn\u2019t a very large gym.\u00a0 Considering the small number of tenants in the building, the people who do come on the regular are pretty familiar with the existences of one another, even if we ultimately have no idea who we are.\u00a0 That being said, I think it\u2019s never a good idea to exorcise … Continue reading A funny thing happened at the gym today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[148,100,45,109,83,52],"class_list":["post-50440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-batarians","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-gym","tag-observations","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50442,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50440\/revisions\/50442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}