STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

1.  That the "girl" free weights are by all the serious men's weight equipment.  I always feel like I am in someone's way with my 5 pound weights, but you gotta start somewhere!  Also, this gives guys the opportunity to stare. 

2.  People that want to have a whole conversation with me when they are on a machine next to me.  It always seems to be an older woman.  I'm sorry, but I do not want to talk about your kid's baseball team, your job, my job, your dogs, television shows, etc., but of course I WILL talk about all those things so I am not rude (go figure). 

3.  People who give me dirty looks if I am switching off on machines and doing one set of legs, one set of arms and alternating.  If you want to use the machine I am not currently on, go right ahead.  I will just go back to do the rest of my sets on that machine later.  Don't assume that I am tying up both machines.  People will actually look at the empty machine, give me a dirty look, and walk away. 

4.  All the random overly-tanned, short shorts wearing people who work at the gym whose only job function seems to be walking around and chatting with each other and if you ask for something like a class schedule they are like, "what's that?" and kind of shrug and go back to chatting with each other.

5.  When someone is working with a trainer and the trainer wants them to go on the machine that I am already on and the trainer just hovers around the machine staring and waiting.  I just feel so uncomfortable I give up the machine even though I'm not done.