I had to drive my sister to the airport early this morning, so I thought I would pop by the gym and get my workout out of the way early today. I was there at 7am on a Monday of a long weekend.

After my weights, I hopped on a cross trainer. Though my usual machine was taken, I purposely picked one that had no one on any machine near it so that no one would bother me. This wasn’t my first time working out early in the morning, I do it often. I do it often enough to know that there is a gaggle of women who all get to the gym at the same time. Set their cardio machines to lever 15 (out of 100…basically, the machine moves for them), and just talk for an hour straight. On my regular machine, I am far enough away from them that it doesn’t bother me.

Unfortunately, today, I was smack in the middle of them. They were literally shouting over top of me. It is possible that they were purposely being annoying because they wanted me to move. They probably think that because it’d be easy for them to hop off of the machine, since they aren’t doing anything for their heart rate in the first place, it’d be easy for me. I didn’t budge. I wish I had. They completely wasted their time there…I don’t understand why people pay for gym memberships and don’t work out. It’s not a freaking coffee house. My gym is actually pretty dingy and gross. These women would have been better off doing a 15 minute intense work out then sitting at a Starbucks for the rest of the day.

And I don’t give a crap what happened in their pitiful lives. I highly doubt the other people trying to get a quick workout in this morning did either, but everyone heard because they SHOUTED everything. I wish it was socially acceptable to tell strangers to shut the hell up.