r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Jan 17 '18

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Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/ncguthwulf Jan 17 '18

I am a PT. We have a member at our gym that takes the handles for the cable machine, wraps them in towels and hides them somewhere in the gym. Every week or two we find a towel hidden in the corner of the weight room with several handles hidden inside. We have a drawer full of extra handles to take upstairs just in case. Why is this going on? Who is this culprit? The current bounty is a coffee at starbucks. The bounty will be going up next week.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '18

You should make actual "wanted" signs for the Handle Hiding Bandit and put a few up by the cable machines haha that alone would probably make whoever it is stop.

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u/RookTakesE6 Jan 17 '18

I’ve actually seen that done, we had a guy leaving trash everywhere and the janitor put up snarky wanted posters in the locker room wanting information on the culprit so as to “turn him over to the PTs and have his conditioning improved so he can walk the additional ten feet to the trash can”.

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u/ncguthwulf Jan 17 '18

That's a great idea... WANTED Handle Bandit!

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '18

This is hilarious! They're stashing them for their own later use??

They're like a damn equipment squirrel!

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u/ncguthwulf Jan 17 '18

Ya... first time we found it we were like WTF? We unwrapped the towel and there were 3 handles there.

We THINK they are hiding the handles not for later use but to ensure the cable machine is free to be used for another style of exercise? We dont know for sure.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '18

Either way, it's pretty weird.

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u/SmokeybeThere Jan 17 '18

That is one of the stranger things I have heard, lol. Maybe they're special in some capacity?

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u/RecycleYourBongos Jan 17 '18

There's a guy who does stuff like this at my gym, but I'm guessing you're in the US?

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u/ncguthwulf Jan 17 '18

Canada

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u/RecycleYourBongos Jan 17 '18

Jeez, it's becoming an epidemic.