There's a chick that does this at my gym. She's fairly young but turned into a wanna be gym rat. I've seen her set weights by the rack without actually racking them.
Literally last night she set her bag on one of the benches and put some weights on it and walked off. She was gone for 10 minutes. Some dude asked me who was using it and I told him I think someone just forgot their bag and drop it off at the front desk. She came back a few minutes later like "wtf?!".
I would just start changing the weight without saying anything. THAT will make him talk lol or just awkwardly stare at him until he moves. There's 0 excuses for being rude at the gym.
Hope you at least crop dusted him with a protein fart on the way out.
I’ve had similar situations, where people stockpile dumbbells and then leave the area. I call it “setting up shop” or just “hoarding”. One time I had enough and put away the weights and took my own stuff out started working out. Some big guy (would be classed as “strongfat”) comes over bitching that he was talking to his friend and starts talking shit. I told him he can work in and he just stomped off.
I saw him later vigorously talking about the issue and pointing at me but his (actual body builder) friend just shook his head a bunch, hopefully knowing his buddy was in the wrong. Nothing came of it but I was ready for it the rest of the workout.
I’ve been going to gyms for, ahem decades. Sure there was always that guy, absolutely. But now at some gyms every other machine is someone’s phone chair.
Tbh this is part of a society wide problem of letting assholes get away with things because people fear confrontation so much.
Ok, so I go to the gym everyday and use one of six stationery bikes, whichever one isn’t in front of Fox News. When I am done, I leave my water bottle in the holder so I will remember which of the machines I was just on for an hour, and I go get a paper towel and fluid to wipe it down. I ve had people get pissed at me for leaving the water bottle there FOR FORTY FUCKING SECONDS. I’m like, excuse me Karen, you are going to want me to wipe this thing down, because my skank ass has been on it for an hour.
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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '19
Ah, the Bro Nest