Will they cancel my membership?

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I have been a member of a gym for a few years.

This week I had a encounter with a women in the carpark. This is a very busy gym and the carpark is often full with people having to circle to get a space.

One morning I had done just that until I spotted a space. Unfortunately another car was just reversing into a space blocking my path so I had to wait for her to reverse into her space until I could turn the corner and go into the free space I had seen. She was taking ages as kept having to correct.

Meanwhile another car approached the other way and started reversing into the free space. Before they had reversed in I was able to turn the corner and moved towards the space. I had my indicator on to signal that I was going into that space. The other driver was still trying to manoeuvre badly into the space and I was now facing her. I kindly gestured to her pointing to the space that I had been waiting for that space, mouthing to her too. She 100% saw me as she threw her hands up in a oh well way but continued to reverse into the space. I wound down my window and politely said that I had been waiting for that space. She started to come out the space so I thought she was going to move and let me in but she was correcting to reverse straight. I told her politely three times that I had been waiting for that space.

As she ignored me I went past her and told her she was a very rude and horrible women. I had been politely waiting for someone else to reverse and was waiting for that space. She said there are other spaces to park in. I said there isn't that was why I was waiting for that space. I continued past and did put my middle finger up at her. It was an overreaction but I just couldn't believe how rude she was.

When she walked past my car she says she was going to complain about me and took a picture of my number plate. She then spoke to reception and I saw her write a complaint in the book at reception.

I have looked at the terms and conditions of the gym and it does say they can cancel membership for any threatening or aggressive behaviour. They have my registration number but not my name or anything. What do you think will happen? Do you think I will get a phone call to say they are cancelling my membership? This is a total one off for me and completely unlike me.

middle not iddle!

I go to the gym straight after school drop off so can't walk or cycle there. The main road has double yellow lines all along it so no parking. People end up parking on the grass or blocking others in as no spaces.

I had been waiting for the space first, so was there first, but unfortunately someone else who was trying to park in another space was blocking my path to go into the space. I waited patiently rather than try and squeeze past her.

I think people who are rude and have bad manners should be pulled up on it rather than just ignoring them and letting them repeat such behaviour again and again.

I was only aggressive to her after asking her nicely three times saying that I had just been about to pull into that space but my path was blocked by the other driver who was taking ages to park.

I think people who are rude and have bad manners should be pulled up on it rather than just ignoring them and letting them repeat such behaviour again and again.

You're the rude one!

She got there first. Then you thought it was acceptable to badmouth her and swear. Charming!

You lose the moral high ground over rude behaviour when you give people the finger.

I think people who are rude and have bad manners should be pulled up on it rather than just ignoring them and letting them repeat such behaviour again and again.

Oh the irony...

Well, if you only got aggressive with a stranger over a parking space after you'd asked them to move for you three times that's ok and perfectly acceptable behaviour

I'd look for a different gym; they should provide adequate parking.

Jesus calm down, it’s a parking space 😳 it’s over and done with, why the angst?

Actually, I hope they cancel your membership. YOU were the rude one, swearing and name calling. The other lady was likely fairly shaken.

The business model for gyms means that they rely on people who pay membership but hardly ever go. All those January joiners. So they are unlikely to cancel.

But you were wrong in this situation, frustrating as it was.

You weren’t waiting for the space, you were waiting for the person in front of you to park. You were unlucky that the space was taken before you got to it. A space doesn’t become yours because you see it first, it becomes yours when you get to it first. You are the rude one in this story.

I think people who are rude and have bad manners should be pulled up on it rather than just ignoring them and letting them repeat such behaviour again and again.

Totally agree, as do most people reading. you're being pulled up on it so, don't repeat the behaviour.

Your update is hilarious. You reserved the space in your mind, then someone else actually took it before you got there. That's like me stood in the queue at Pret eyeing up the last croissant, then someone else buys it before me, I ask them if I can have it because I saw it first, she says no so I swear at her.