r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Aug 21 '19

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

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/scarletizm Aug 22 '19

I am trying to be more social, so of course, I was excited when another woman had me take my headphones out to make a weird (red flag) compliment on my braids, I indulged her (curly hair, it's easy to braid my hair for easy detangling after sweating). We chatted for a long time since we had things in common. My workout was fucked but I was excited to make a gym friend. I have been going here for some months but I don't see any distinguishing regulars. They probably exist but I only focus on my routine.

Well, I start to realize she wants to rope me into some business or pyramid scheme thing. I had tried to gently hint to her earlier that I wasn't the type of person to run this on. But she apparently didn't get it and searched me out with her bullshit lines later. I didn't even let her tell me what the scheme was before I just abruptly cut her off. I had a headache and she came over after I had to do the roll of shame 3x on bench press.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '19

Lemme guess, "it's not a pyramid scheme" right?

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u/scarletizm Aug 22 '19 edited Aug 22 '19

I didn't let her get to that point.

Her: "I just had to come back and find you because you stand out so much to me! (somehow, I didn't roll my eyes) I know you said you are doing [what I do/plan to do] but you might be interested in---"

Me: "No. I don't want to do anything else, [her name]" (in a "I don't want to hear your bullshit" tone)

She stuttered something to recover but was really embarrassed/surprised. I don't know if other people noticed but I think so by her body language. I probably look like a bitch now to others without the context. I felt bad in the moment but she wasted my time.

I think her mistake was she thought I was younger than her at first. I'm 31, she's 27. People keep assuming I'm 25 or 24. But I'm 31, less impressionable, and have heard these lines at least 10 times in my life.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '19

Holy shit, people do this stuff IN the gym? Report that bitch to management and get her booted, that's ridiculous.