John wrote:
1. Hairy sweaty men leaving wet spots on the benches.
2. Smelly sweat making me gag. (this is rare - only one really
egregious person a year or so, but we had another gaggy-smelling one in
there this week.)
3. Aqua underwire workout bras. I'm not there to hook up and neither is
hardly anyone else, and the hookers annoy me. 'Nuff said.
4. Skinny chicken legs. Hint: just because YOU'VE only got a shaving
mirror at home doesn't mean other people don't see you full length.
5. The guy who comes after work for an hour each day and sits on the
Nautilus ab machine doing a set every once in a while but mostly just
chatting with people. He no doubt is doing all those ab sets because of
his enormous belly. Maybe he thinks one more set will do it.
6. High school boys who think I'm their mother and leave the plates
loaded. There were 8 plates loaded on the hack squat machine when I
went in this week-end.
7. Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs. No chalk. No taped collars.
No resting between sets (WTF?), no talking between sets (huh?) and
lots of signs saying the weight room is closed for 3 hours a week for a
class. Um, wouldn't just ONE sign at the door be enough? If you're in
there working out you probably already know if you're allowed in at this
time. There are so many signs - roughly 10 per wall and a dozen at the
door - that they've just become a background decor.
One of my personal favorites is "don't spit in the drinking fountain."
It seems like people who feel a need to put such a sign up ought also to
provide a spittoon to help with this egregious problem.
By the way, none of the signs outlaw wet spots on benches, smelly sweat,
hooking in the weightroom or ignoring legs. Bah humbug.
But they do use decent punctuation. So Queenie would be okay.
Dally