Originally Posted by
Litespeed
I walked over to an machine I wanted to use and found a towel on it, but no one around. I looked around didn't see anyone who looked like they were using it. I even asked my husband who was on a machine close to it if someone was using the machine. He said the guy had walked away but didn't know where he went. I removed the towel to another machine nearby and got on the machine. After doing one set on the machine, a guy comes over and said "I only left that machine for a second". I told him I had two more sets to do. He stomped off in a huff. Was I wrong not to give him back the machine? Come to find out he was all the way across the gym in another area using a different machine when I got on this one. I'm guessing he thought he could "save" this machine for when he got done on the other one so he could trade off.
You GO girl.
The guy is a jerk, and you gave him the gym justice he deserved.
I lift weights at an army base that lets the base civilian employees use the gym. Almost all military people are polite in the weight room and frequently work in. About half the civilians are not polite. I have about had it with one civilian who left his towel on an arm curl machine for an hour last week while he worked out on 3 other machines at the same time and talked to a friend for half an hour while they leaned on 2 other machines. The gym provides cloths and disinfectant to wipe down the equipment after you use it. The purpose is both good hygiene as well as to protect the equipment from the acids in sweat. This jerk will wipe the equipment before he uses it, but never when he is finished.
