My health club is really nice. All the towels you want, disinfecting wipes, upper class clientele (expensive) etc.

I usually only do the cardio machines so there's no "working in". Policy is 30 minutes on a cardio machine during high usage times when people might be waiting (almost never an issue and I usually go over that). Also policy is no reserving machines. Still a towel over a machine usually means somebody just stepped away to fill up their water bottle or something.

One time in spin class, just getting ready to start, literally every bike was in use except for one that had a towel on it. I asked around, no one knew who had put it there. I waited until class started and then I figured it was mine. A couple minutes after class started, some roid guy came in and snatched his towel and gave me a dirty look and said something unintelligible. Then AFTER class he recognized me outside in the central area and growled at me about *MY* rudeness. I realized it was no use trying to reason with him - what a jerk.