I was at my apartment's gym and this bro kept dropping his weights from about 2โ3 feet above the ground and after the fourth loud bang I kind of lost it and went over to him and said:
"If you're not capable of lifting that weight without dropping it, then you're not capable of lifting that weight."
So I guess Iโm never leaving my apartment ever again.
I spent the rest of my time on the elliptical thinking of a nicer way I could have said it, but what's done is done.
The good news is that was the last time he dropped his weight.
I get annoyed by a lot of things, but I rarely say anything and mostly just take to mastodon to talk smack about people, but this guy needed a lesson in gym etiquette.
I also just remembered an encounter at a brewery last weekend where a lady was sitting alone at a table next to us and FaceTiming with someone at full volume and this other guy walked by and told her it was rude and she tried to rope me in for her cause by saying "it's not loud right? It can't be any louder than two people talking at a table, right?"
Had she not done that, I would have just been annoyed with the FaceTiming but ignored it, but when she tried to get me on her side, I had to be honest by telling her it's poor social etiquette to be playing any audio on her phone in a public space without headphones.
All of that to say, I may officially be entering my curmudgeon era.
Gym guy bad, brewery lady really bad ๐
Good work! We need MORE social shaming. The pandemic produced a lot of younger folk who lack social etiquette, and how else will they learn?
welcome, we'll always make room for more . . .
* as long as you mind your own business and don't do anything raise our ire . . .
Alice if anything youโve done them both a favor.
@Alice I'm so sick of people blasting audio and being the only one to call it out.
I'm just happy to know I'm not alone.
Absolutely correct on both topics. Bad social form.
@Alice Back in my urban days when someone on public transit started having a loud conversation, I'd pretend I was on a call and I'd start loudly relating the details to my fictional friend: "Yeah, she says Bob is also sleeping with Carol!"
Invariably I'd get: "Excuuuuse me, this is a private conversation!"" to which I would respond "No, it's public transit. Public. Pub-lic."
Once, I got a smattering of applause.
Curmudge away!
Thinking how I am someone who has called the crisis line on speaker phone (phone at time was broken) while on the bus and I am telling myself nobody is talking about that though it is probably very concerningโฆ
@CosmicTraveler anyone who does it *on the extremely loud hairdryer powered mode of transport* is an absolute psychopath. And yet!...
Thank you
It's not being a curmudgeon to scold someone for being a dick.
@Alice at my last major job, I was officemates with the two old crusty database guys.
I joked it while it was the grumpy old men office, I was still working on my age.
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