Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : Okay, so basically this happened this morning and as the day has gone on I’ve gone from “that was fucking stupid” to “maybe I’m a dick”. 

This morning I did a HIIT cycle class. Essentially 50 ish people on bikes doing a HIIT workout with an instructor. If you don’t know what HIIT is, it stands for high intensity interval training, basically doing bursts (45 seconds or so) of giving it 100% “I feel like I might have a heart attack” sort of intensity, then 15 seconds or so of catching your breathe. Rinse and repeat. 

So anyway. I get on a bike that’s in the corner right at the back, an older dude (I dunno, maybe 60?) comes up and puts his stuff on the bike next to me and says hi. I say hi back, friendly and all. 

Keep in mind I’m just getting back into working out. So I’m just getting back into the feeling of physical excursion, and I definitely can’t handle it as well as when I’m flat out with my workouts. Which means I’m extra shitty during because, well, I’d rather fucking lie down and die than keep on working out.  

Anyway, workout starts and this dude starts talking to me in the rest periods about my workout. As in shit like “why did you slow before the timer went?” “What happened there?” “Come on get up!” Now, I was being nice at the start. While feeling like fainting I gathered up the energy to respond to this dude. I told him at one point that I’m just getting back into working out so I’m doing mah fuckn best. This went on for like 10 minutes, and he’d say some shit to me almost every rest period. 

Anyway, after enough of this I said “can you stop talking to me” because seriously I was exhausted and I couldn’t be assed explaining why I’m working out the way I am or being watched over on how I’m going. He went all offended at me, can’t remember what he said. I said “rule no.1 of gym is don’t talk to people while they’re working out” (unless it’s a friend of course). He said “that’s your rule not mine”. In my head I was like, there’s 50 people in here and you’re the only cunt trying to have a conversation. Think you’re the odd one out. 

I’m feeling like I could have been less of a dick about it, but I think I was so rude because I was absolutely fucked from the workout which made me grumpy. On the other hand, for fucks sake mate we’re strangers. I’m here to work out not socialise. Why the fuck are you talking to me. 

He started talking to the dude beside him instead after that. He seemed to be nice about it. 

As the cherry on top, 10 mins after I said that he turns to me and goes “well don’t talk to me either”. I was like dude at no point have I initiated a conversation with you, you’ve got nothing to worry about. But I didn’t say anything in response. 

So, am I the asshole? I’m on the fence about this. Could have handled it better, that’s for sure. 

