This is to all the old guys who “workout” at my gym. Please realize that I do not think you are cool because you are old and yet still go to the gym. Please stop your intense, beseeching eye contact with me. I do not want to talk, joke, or flirt with you. I will not offer you a warm smile and head tilt to acknowledge you as a martyr of the gym scene, a true fitness afficiando at your age. You make me sick, the way you parade around trying to persuade all the ladies into some sort of joking, flirtatious gym relationship as a way to validate your actually being there. Your Grecian Formula hair is disguisting, and I was having a great day until you showed up in shorts. Take your white pastiness complete with varicosities far, far, away from me! It is like you think that just because you go to the gym you deserve some extra female attention. Well, you are not getting it from me! Go home and dye your hair again, your grey is showing around the temples. And please, please stop doing your stretching exercises directly in front me. Don’t you notice my eyerolling when you try to smile at me? YUCK!!!
This article appears in Oct 16-22, 2008.
Jesus I can’t wait until time catches up with you. Gravity starts to run amok with your rack, the hips and thighs start packing on some poundage. The veins in your legs become more pronounced. The hair starts getting greyer, false teeth loom in the not too far distance. I understand all that old man ogling thing and it’s gross, but wait some time and then look in the mirror. Time waits for no one, not even you.
Hear that, all you disgusting geezers? The gym is not for you. The gym is only for the young and hot. Once you hit 35, get yourself a workout video and exercise in your living room where you won’t offend the young, hot people for whom the gym is intended. Who do you think you’re fooling, anyway, exercising at your age. You’re pathetic./sarcasm
First thing that came to my mind to…I can’t wait till OP gets old. You sound like one of the reasons I do not go to the gym in the first place. One of those bitches that think the gum is an extension of some fashion show. Another type that makes me not want to go is the guys who think they are power-lifting, but it sounds like they are having sex.When people are not nice, bad people, they exude a stench. It is the smell of decay or something, it is an indescribably smell. I bet you wreak of this stench. I think you need to get over yourself.
Scott,I can tell by your terminology (or misuse of it) that you haven’t stepped foot in a gym in a very long time… the fact that one of the reasons you don’t go to the gym is because there are girls there did make me lol though.Cheers,
I think the point is the old guys flirting with her. I doubt she would care about them bettering themselves if not for the “extra attention” they give her.
You made me laugh with the observation about females at the gym. Do not get me wrong, one of my favorite past-times is looking at females. But I have to ask what terminology? Was it the power-lifting? Get back to work or I’ll have a couple of those monitors taken away. That slow up your productivity.
As a person who frequently goes to the gym, I can say that older people are more than welcome to talk to me. I don’t mind striking up a conversation at the gym with anyone, of any age.O.P. I am 30 years old, and I would rather talk to the older person you described, than talk to a bitch like you. Just because you think you are hot doesn’t mean everyone else does.Not everyone who talks to you or tries to joke around with you is flirting with you. Maybe he felt that you looked like a nice person, and thought that he could enjoy a conversation with you. Maybe you looked like a nice person, looks can be decieving after all.Maybe you should keep your ass home, and leave the gym to people who aren’t full of themselves and rude to others. You need to start working on your obviously shitty personality.
Yep, it was the powerlifting comment…”Get back to work or I’ll have a couple of those monitors taken away. That slow up your productivity.”Was that directed at me? If so, can you explain what it means?
Bad Guy, I think the OP is incredibly full of herself for thinking that all the old guys at the gym are trying to flirt with her. I think it is a special kind of hubris young women suffer from, that makes them assume everyone who looks at them is checking them out. It seems incomprehensible to them that anyone would acknowlege the existence of other people without an ulterior motive.
Sorry, J… I thought you were someone else and that comment would confirm or ____…. I can not think the word I am looking for, damn it.
the bitch is about unwanted attention you twats, “Please stop your intense, beseeching eye contact with me.” =/= “old people are gross” … fucking read.
Seven, do you really think multitudes of old guys are making “intense, beseeching eye contact” with this girl on a regular basis? Really? I’ve been a pretty regular gym-goer for a pretty long time, and I’ve never observed anything like that. What I’ve observed at most gyms is that regulars smile and nod to each other, and sometimes even *gasp* say hello. It’s become a sad, cold world if that qualifies as “unwanted attention”.
She’s the expert on the encounters as she’s the only one here who was involved.I know no old guys have ever approached me to start a convo, so they are obviously targetting women… sweaty women.Or maybe they are intimidated by my physique. Either or.
Scott, I think the terminology that outed you as a non-gym-goer was the part where you said you don’t go to the gym. J was pretty smart to figure that out, eh?
El Muchacho Malo has a good point, as always. But the rest of us are free to speculate on the likelihood of the OP’s perception being accurate. I think it is unlikely that she is sooo breathtaking that all these disgusting old guys are driven to sacrifice themselves upon the altar of dignity day after day for her sake.
I demand the OP gives her real name so we can look her up on Facebook to determine her worthiness of such attention. This will make Miranda and my lifes that much fuller!
Terminology by definition is “the vocabulary of technical terms used in a particular field, subject, science, or art; nomenclature.””don’t go to the gym” is not an example of terminology.Another failed attempt to sound intelligent, eh Miranda?
I am surprised that nobody has picked up on the OPs handle: “you are too old for me”. Which tells me that she would be perfectly fine with some young stud doing all those same things to her that she finds so disgusting coming from the geezers. So what we have here is confirmation of what we already knew: that the only reason hot chicks go to the gym is to use it as a pickup joint. Nice double standard there, toots.
There is something about being in a gym turns guys into superdirtbags and girls into superbitches. Its all the testosterone, everyone thinks everyone else wants to hump on them.
Gee, is my face red. I did not know what the word “terminology” meant. Nope. Silly me…
I think the northern pykes might have said it best,,,,,,”she ain’t pretty,,she just looks that way””