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If this a paying membership gym, just keep in mind that they're helping pay for the equipment you're using.  Not saying they aren't annoying.  Just that they are paying for the privilege to be annoying.
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If this a paying membership gym, just keep in mind that they're helping pay for the equipment you're using.  Not saying they aren't annoying.  Just that they are paying for the privilege to be annoying.

This is a YMCA that allows medicare to pay the membership fee if you are elderly.  Out here in the boonies it is my only option for a gym.

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I *know* my perceptions of old people are getting jaded by living with my MIL, who also does not accept the fact she is at the end of her life.  Hell, I got seriously pissed this morning when I heard an old woman acting/yelling "Help!" on a Life Alert radio commercial, and talking about how she felt bad because she thought her kids and grandkids would have a hard time going on without her.

Bullshit, lady.

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I've been living in a part of the country that has very few children or old people for 6-7 years now. It's always a revelation to go out of midtown and see the rest of the countries demographic. We are driving west to SF in 2 weeks. It'll probably be a culture shock at most of the restaurants and hotel along the way through middle America.

What does your kid think of the MIL Gordo - Loving, generous, grandma? Smart but mildly racist grandma(this was me)? Clueless stubborn sociopath grandma?

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Clueless stubborn sociopath grandma?

It isn't good... I do my best to remind him to be patient with her, she's old and can't help it, and she wont be with us forever (one way or another (or another), she will not be here longer than 5 years).  It is a good thing we finished the attic for him so he has his own space away from her.  Between her and my wife there is a lot of... acid... in the house, so I do my best to be the base.

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she will not be here longer than 5 years

You just added on about 20 years to her life.

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This morning I was looking around trying to decide which of the people in the gym just shouldn't be there.  One should analyze one's perceptions and understand why one thinks as one does.

Motherfucker curling in the squat rack with---I shit you not--- FIVE FUCKING POUNDS on each side of the bar. That's a grand total of a whopping FIFTY FIVE POUNDS. Sure am glad he's using the squat rack; he might hurt hisself with that insane weight.
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It is a good thing we finished the attic for him so he has his own space away from her.

Oh?  I thought you had the MIL upstairs.  For exercise.

That and to set up a plausible scenario to reduce questions, should it become necessary.

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Was getting changed to do some laps this morning and this 75 year old guy is weighing himself and gets off and says to me, "Huzzah!  Down 4 pounds!"  And I said, "Hey, good for you, old timer."  And he said, "Yeah well that's with no clothes though!"  And I said, "Still counts!"

So see?  I don't universally hate all old people around me, just the ones not doing the work.

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So these fucking fuck old people closed off the lap lanes early again, today.  Pulled the fucking rope across the pool literally right behind me, at 10:10.  Lap swim is supposed to go until 10:30 when their old-people-socialization hour starts.  Three of us lap swimmers had to cram into one lane, and one of us was gigantic and was taking up 60% of the width of the lane all by himself (it wasn't me).

I really want to bitch about it, but the people who work at this place all know me by name and I feel like if I bitch about the elderly they will know me by name and also think I am a piece of shit.

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I shit you not:

Wasn't in the pool today but I glanced down from the windows in the gym overlooking the pool, and saw a new face: this huge woman, 250 pounds, maybe three hondo, floating in the deep end on a noodle, and she had her huge fucking sippy mug in the water with her while she chatted with the woman next to her.

I love the Resolutioners.

I can't believe the teenage life guard didn't say anything to her.

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I always wonder about the people who are reading as they workout.  If you can do that while exercising, you aren't moving enough.

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I'm not sure what amused me more, her Sip or the noodle.  It isn't like she couldn't possibly sink with that much blubber.

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This morning while working out my mind was wandering, as it does.  I was thinking about those Planet Fitness commercials that are selling the "No Lunk" angle... you can be a regular person and go there and not worry about seeing people who are serious about fitness.  I hadn't given it enough thought to have an opinion... it was just a thing I was aware of... but for some reason today I started analyzing it.

It is insulting to people who like working out, and also brilliant... it is catering to the people who don't actually want to work out.  No wear-and-tear on their machines.  Hell, these are probably the people I mentioned who are signing up the first week in january... "this is the year I turn it around!"... then don't use the membership from February-October.

I did a little googling, and it turns out I am late to the party... lifters have already given PF a lot of shit, and even Slate... the hippie rag... took them to task.

http://www.slate.com/article....ol.html

I didn't know Planet Fitness gave away free pizza on Mondays.  Brilliant.  I also didn't know there was an alarm that goes off if you grunt too loud.  It truly is a gym for people who don't want to go to a gym.

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I also didn't know there was an alarm that goes off if you grunt too loud.

Really?

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If you think about the economics of the gym: they make their money off people who don't go.
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Today is my last day at work in ATL before we head out to SF.
Yesterday I started packing up my desk. Put my laptop docking station, a few random odds and ends, calculator, nothing major, in it, and then got caught up in a last minute project. I left the box in the middle of my cube to finish up the next day.

Came in this AM and janitorial people had thrown my box away. SHIT. I want to get mad and them, but the company will replace the important stuff and I guess it did look like I had a box of crap in the middle of my desk space.

The most significant loss - my Swingline stapler. This is what set Milton off. I feel for the guy.

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Did they find your flasks?

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Did they find your flasks?

Na - took the alcohol and my grinder home last week.
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