I am a Germaphobe and I'm proud. I HATE germs and feeling dirty. I keep one (okay, two) bottles of scented antibacterial gel in my purse. As well as two in the car and then several placed throughout the house. (What can I say, I LOVE Bath and Body Works!)
I can't walk in the house and get settled until my hands are washed. The first thing I do when I wake up is wash my hands. I like to be clean. At least my hands do.
I guess that there are some people worse than me. I had just got done using the elliptical machine at my gym and was getting ready to wipe it down. However, there were NO paper towels in which to wipe down the machine. (GASP! Which for Germaphobes in Gymland is the equivalent of the Apocalypse!) I walked around trying to find another roll of paper towels.
As I glanced about the room, the woman that was on the machine next to me was looking at me with rather intent eyes. She was staring at me and I felt her gaze, but avoided it. I continued walking around in search of some two-ply goodness.
Out of the corner of my eye, I see this woman get off of her machine, and run at me at full steam! If she hadn't stopped, she would have run me over.
She stopped and said rather rudely, "Excuse me! You didn't wipe down your machine after your use!"
I snipped back at her, "I'm looking for paper towels at the moment but can't find any."
She pointed at the paper towel holder that I just tried and said, "Look. There's some right HERE."
(Are you kidding me?)
I came back with "There aren't any in there. I already tried."
(Duh!)
She huffed, "Well you should always clean your machine because you wouldn't believe the germs on it. Sorry about that, you should know that you clean your machine after you're done."
(Ya think?) She wasn't even a manager.
Needless to say, I got my machine wiped down. And then it continued. I'm not KIDDING. She followed me around the rest of the gym and watched my every move while I was using the free weights. She watched as I cleaned each machine after I was done using it. She watched me until I started getting ready to leave. And ironically, she got ready to leave when I did! She left right after me, but not after being super nice and saying, "Have a good night!"
I pursed my lips and gave her a "see ya later" and left. Wow. I hope that I never have to encounter her again...but my luck isn't that good. It's a small world up here!
11 comments:
I am totally offended on your behalf. How obnoxious.
Sheesh! Sometimes I wonder if people don't have enough to do, so they think they have to police everyone else. I'd be so annoyed!
i hate that feeling when you ALWAYS do something and then for some reason some one catches you not doing it or at the point you are just about to do it..anyhow. i hate that because then youfeel like you are defending yourself and HELLLOOOO lady get a life. way to go, hanging at the gym!!
My blood pressure just went up reading about that nasty lady. What nerve!!! I'm impressed that you were so nice, I'm affraid that I might not have had such a nice tone.
"Who spit in her bean curd?" (Name that movie...) The gym is a hard enough place to be even without nasty people following you around. seriously weird.
Oh brother! Some people have no sense of giving people the benefit of the doubt! What a creepy lady! In situations like that you want so badly to be snotty back... proud of you for NOT! (Just quietly and annonomously egg her house!) JK! Way to be nice to her. Good luck with your next encounter. You KNOW it will happen. She will probably turn out to be your good workout buddy in the end! (Heavenly Father's got a great sense of humor!) The moral of this story has got to be...always carry a paper towel with you. You never know when you might need it and when someone else is watching you need it!! :D
P.S. Great jingles to go with this post!!
You just wait...she's going to be your next visiting teacher or something. ;) ha! I actually am one of those people at the gym who watches to see if other people wipe down their machines...but I never talk to them about it...I just make a mental note of what machines to not use!
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.... sorry! You told me the story earlier and reading your post is making me laugh! I agree with mom, secretly egg her house, I'll help you!
funnt story...and yay, you got your membership. :D
haha! what a funny story! I would have been annoyed too, just reading that made me a bit agitated...Ugh!
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