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I've just been followed around the gym.......( lighthearted)

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Sundancerintherain · 08/02/2022 10:42

..by an irate woman . Why was she irate ? Because apparently I was using her favourite machines in a practically empty gym.Hmm As I there are 4 of every machine and only me, her and her DH in there.
Her poor husband kept coming over ( Marjorie, just use a different treadmill / bike/ crosstrainer !)
I actually got the giggles in the end , the lovely gym owner apologised on my way out and marched over to chat to Marjorie and her poor embarrassed DH Grin
Anyone else got any tales of gym batshittedness?

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DownWhichOfLate · 08/02/2022 10:44

How odd! I was once at the gym when a very sweet very elderly man asked me if I was married and then told me he was rich Grin

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Sundancerintherain · 08/02/2022 10:48

What a charmer Down 😀

When I told my DH he said she either fancied me or wants to be my friend Grin

Another gym friend has just told me that Marjorie throws a wobbler if anyone stands in " her" place during the aqua aerobics. I am tempted to go next week .......

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Easterbunnyiswindowshopping · 08/02/2022 10:49

The funnest man at my gym uses weights machines with no weights on them. Sits there huffing and puffing! In his late 20's and stick thin!
He crashed into my dd's car in town and insisted on fixing it for cash...suspect he had licence going by his driving skills.

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gingerhills · 08/02/2022 10:54

This may be spineless of me, but I would back down to someone like this immediately. I'd say, I don't mind which machines I use - let me know what ones you need. Because she clearly has some sort of problem and I don't.

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Sundancerintherain · 08/02/2022 11:02

@gingerhills it is absolutely your right to do that, but I'm in my '50s and way passed letting people bully me. Interestingly Marjorie was around my age , I wonder if her behaviour usually gets her own way with people who are younger 🤔

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deeplyrooted · 08/02/2022 11:08

She’d probably want the other machine too if you moved over.

LindaEllen · 08/02/2022 11:11

@Sundancerintherain

What a charmer Down 😀

When I told my DH he said she either fancied me or wants to be my friend Grin

Another gym friend has just told me that Marjorie throws a wobbler if anyone stands in " her" place during the aqua aerobics. I am tempted to go next week .......

PLEASE go, and let us know how it went!!
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Sundancerintherain · 08/02/2022 11:15

@deeplyrooted exactly.

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iklboo · 08/02/2022 11:25

This may be spineless of me, but I would back down to someone like this immediately. I'd say, I don't mind which machines I use - let me know what ones you need. Because she clearly has some sort of problem and I don't.

Probably because people keep letting her away with it. I wouldn't be arsey but I would point out there's other machines free to use and, unless her name is

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Sundancerintherain · 08/02/2022 11:27

@iklboo I didn't engage to that extent, I just kept repeating that the machine was in use.
Marjorie is clearly a woman used to getting her own way.

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iklboo · 08/02/2022 11:31

@Sundancerintherain - poor husband! She sounds like a proper Hyacinth Bucket 😄

MandyCarter · 08/02/2022 11:36

we have a Marjorie at our gym. Poor Mr Marjorie though. if they'd asked nicely i would have moved but not under those circumstances

IncompleteSenten · 08/02/2022 11:38

You should have said you'd move for 20 quid

EchoNan · 08/02/2022 12:01

I had similar at the local swimming pool a couple of years back.

Very early morning, I was doing some gentle treading water in a corner of the shallow end, trying to get a bit of fitness back following an op.

Screaming woman swam up to me yelling for me to " get out of MY lane". Over and over she yelled, she was so angry.

There were only four of us in the entire pool. The lifeguard just shrugged and said to me "she comes here every day". The whole thing was bizarre.

I got out. Obviously, it was a local pool for local people.Confused

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Sundancerintherain · 08/02/2022 12:20

@MandyCarter my DH has decided that Mr Marjorie is now called Gerald and needs rescuing from Marjorie Grin

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Sundancerintherain · 08/02/2022 12:22

To be fair the gym owner did speak to her, I didn't stay around to hear what was said .
Gym friend is still trying to get me to the aqua aerobics next monday, I'm sorely tempted .

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ShirleyPhallus · 08/02/2022 12:30

I’ve got a really cheap gym membership, it’s literally just free weights and a few machines. It’s about £20 a month and barely anyone goes. It is EXCELLENT.

There are two men who come in, spend the whole time slagging off the lack of equipment or the fact the benches have ripped leather. Then do about 6 bicep curls on 8kg and then spend 5 mins “resting” but slagging off the gym again and pretty much everyone they know

I wish they’d just fuck off tbh

MandyCarter · 08/02/2022 12:49

You see, I saw him more of a Geoffrey @Sundancerintherain, or Geoff to the chaps >hawhawhaw

Siameasy · 08/02/2022 13:06

In the Covid days we had to book a session and wait to be shown in. So we were shown in and I went to the X trainer and this bloke came up all angry because I’d jumped the queue. I said there isn’t a queue, we’ve all booked the same session I just happened to walk faster than you but I tell you what if you’re really really upset would you like to go on the X trainer (said in a syrupy way to show him up). Another bloke pulled him away.
I think I was meant to ask everyone who had arrived before me which piece of equipment they were going on before I started my work out.🙄

Cheeseandlobster · 08/02/2022 13:16

Poor long suffering Mr Marjorie. I bet that man has seen this so many times. What was Marjorie saying to you?

I saw a near fight in the changing rooms once because a young woman had put her wet socks on the radiator to dry. It was absolutely hammering it down. The woman was on the phone to a friend and this other woman started calling her a skank saying the socks were disgusting. Sock woman told the person on the phone that an effing psycho was going on at her and was going to get a slap in a minute. My class was about to start so I never saw how it played out sadly

emmathedilemma · 08/02/2022 13:22

This is exactly what my gym would be like during the day!Thankfully in an evening it's a lot more chilled but the ladies wot lunch and retired crowd during the day are a force to be reckoned with. One of the aquabitch women once used my changing cubicle while I was in the shower (all my clothes, shoes, bag etc were on the bench) and her reason was that she was a gold member and had rights. Note, I was also a gold member and she was just a rude bitch.

emmathedilemma · 08/02/2022 13:23

Gym friend is still trying to get me to the aqua aerobics next monday, I'm sorely tempted .
Don't do it, they are the worst!! It'll be a class full of Marjories!! You WILL be in someone's space, changing cubicle, locker or god forbid splash their hair and get it wet......

ErrolTheDragon · 08/02/2022 13:27

Shades of Sheldon Cooper - except that his spot was on his couch, not in a shared facility.

I've a little more sympathy for the swimmer (though not for her rudeness) - if someone is swimming straight lengths, it's inconsiderate of someone else to park themselves in their path if there's plenty of other space.

Cas112 · 08/02/2022 13:31

@gingerhills

This may be spineless of me, but I would back down to someone like this immediately. I'd say, I don't mind which machines I use - let me know what ones you need. Because she clearly has some sort of problem and I don't.
Well then your a walkover haha!
Justkeepmoving020122 · 08/02/2022 13:32

@emmathedilemma why did you leave your stuff in the cubicle when you went for a shower? At my old gym that is extremely rude and your stuff would be dumped elsewhere.

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