at the gym

A couple of weeks ago I witnessed a verbal altercation at the gym. I was on the stepmill, which is like going up a down escalator. It's the hardest workout ever.

There is a long row of stepmills. A guy ("the first man") got on the stepmill next to me, and then a guy ("the second man") got on the stepmill on the other side of that guy. The second man proceeded to spray the anti-bacterial spray onto the stepmill.

"Spray it onto the towel and then wipe it off!" said the first man, very pissed off.

"I didn't point it at you," said the second man.

"Just spray it on the towel and then wipe it off!"

"But I didn't spray you!"

"I don't care! I've been sprayed enough with that stuff!"

"But I didn't point it at you and I'm not spraying you."

The first man got off his stepmill in a huff and moved to a different stepmill. These guys were both stupid!

When I saw my trainer I told him what I had seen. "Which guys were they?" so I pointed them out. My trainer got agitated and said "I'm going to go spray all around that [first] guy!"

Later on that day I was doing the preacher curl (a difficult bicep exercise) and I said to my trainer, "I can't do any more!" And he said, "Yes you can, you're just upset about the spray incident," which made me laugh and then for sure I couldn't do any more.

The first guy was wrong and dumb, but ultimately they were both combative and idiotic. And I think the second guy spent about 10 minutes spraying down the machine which is excessive to the point of obsessive.