First off one quick thing to address - 2012 will be the year of the GGtS! Meaning I will make a solid effort to update daily even if it's only a quick one but this is something I've wanted to pursue & hopefully any readers enjoy my odd posts about sports.
Now on to the actual post which is more a psychotic rant of my biggest pet peeves regarding trips to the gym. So in no particular order (unless I change my mind, which I might) here are my following peeves:
1. If there is an entire row of treadmills/ellipticals/bikes do NOT & I repeat, do NOT take the one directly next to me or any other poor soul. Maybe you want to watch the TV I'm in front of. Maybe you're thinking I'll be a talker & help your workout fly by. Think again. You can see the row of TVs just fine if you're one more over from it. I listen to music so loud I wouldn't be able to hear a fire alarm going off. Also, I don't like people as a general rule of thumb & that only heightens the second I get to the gym. So keep to the rule I always go by: pick a station that has no one on either side if possible. If it's not possible, well then avoid the sweaty, brunette girl, wearing a Bruins tee, glaring at you & just move right along the row.
2. I sweat. Like...a lot. Picture a 400 lb dude changing another 400 lb dude that just stole his bucket of KFC. Now take the combined amount those two tubbos sweat in their sprint for crispy fried perfection & you'll get a picture of how I look when/after working out. So looking like that the absolute last thing I want is for you - friend and foe (stranger) alike - to talk to me. If I know you - wave. If I don't & for some bizarre reason you feel the desire to talk to me just don't. Odds are I'll smile tightly, give a one word response & move along.
3. We get it - there will always be super attractive people in the world. Unfortunately these super attractive humans also go to the gym (annoying, I know.) If you're skinny & fit: awesome. That's not an easy feat to accomplish nowadays with all the deliciously terrible food there is in the world. But please, for the love of God, do not look at us lesser mortals as though we don't deserve to be in the same area as you are. Yes I am breathing as though my lung is about to appear on the bottom of this treadmill & go 'SPLAT' right into the wall but I'm trying. I'm at the gym in order to appear a bit more like you as hard as that may be to believe. So stop looking at me with disgust, or I just might aim my vom in your direction when it all becomes too much.
4. For the love of all that's holy, wipe your machine down! I don't like doing it either but it must be done. My skin is uber sensitive & is pretty much allergic to my own sweat let alone all the nastiness of other peoples' residue left all over the machines.
Welp, that's it for right now.
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