Stuff that annoys me in the Gym

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Stuff that annoys me in the Gym

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Just a quick grump about my local gym. Why do folk sit on the machines texting? Can they not be without their smart phones for half an hour? What is it with the make-up and overpowering perfume that one or two girls seem think is essential for gym usage? It is a gym not a nightclub. On the flip side of this there was a bloke yesterday who could have done with a wash before he went to the gym, he was thrutching, it was so bad that you had to wait a while to go on the machines after he had vacated. I think that is just about it for my grump today. }hairout{ :-D
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sile} I'm afraid the gym was never for me. I was one of those idiots who lost their footing and flew backwards off the running machine {rofwl}
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You must feel so better getting that grump out of the way. )t' I no longer use a gym and then only used it on over 60's day in an effort to get fitter.
To be honest, I never enjoyed it like some people do and my use of the treadmill ended up similar to Helen's. I never came off it but couldn't slow it down, so ended up just clinging on and feeling a fool. :oops:
I agree with all that you say SS and think that mobile phones are a nuisance in too many places now, ie the supermarket and hospital waiting rooms just to mention two. As for perfume & body odour, maybe the two people giving off the aromas should get together!
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The gym is a funny place, there are the die hards like myself who turn up week on week, bash out a good session and pour ourselves out of the door sweating like a Pompey fan at the dock, and there are still the others doing their posing but they never seem to last for long. I think that they must take up a free week’s trial or something and decide that it is not for them after they have to start paying for the usage. I have however bumped into a couple of old school friends from years back, folk I haven’t seen in nearly thirty years which is a nice side effect of gyming… I don’t however seem to be losing the belly (maybe the weekend ale consumption might have something to do with it).
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It must be a good place for observation !!

I recall only too well the wafts I used to get from the Cricketers after a two hour session!!

Good news is I will never annoy you spoony !!

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the gym apparatus annoy me in the gym {rofwl}
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What annoys me most about my gym is that it burnt down last week!

Lovely little gym/pool at a local hotel. Membership is cheaper than the local leisure centre and most mornings I have the pool to myself.

But sadly it is now gone and the latest estimates are it will take up to a year to rebuild {cry}
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Oh gosh Lucy, that's a nuisance }hairout{ Mind you, a year goes very quickly :?
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That is annoying Lucy.
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Oh dear.

I don't have to worry, my daughter has a Gym at the bottom of her Garden.
I use it quite often.

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{rofwl} {rofwl} {rofwl}
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Oh, I think you're very brave to mingle with all that body odour in the first place {rofwl} I'm afraid the gym isn't for me, I'd much rather be out for a walk in the fresh air, plus it's cheaper )j;
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