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Laurie Ansberry's avatar

OMG, such a Fried Green Tomatoes moment!! So glad you both intimidated the cowards & got a better spot! You waiting for them is a visual that made me laugh out loud.

I HATE the gym during peak hours! My husband & I used to go at 3:30AM for years (I had to be at work at 6AM, as I supported both coasts) just to avoid people & their horrible gym etiquette!

When we moved to the mountains we gave up the gym & I took up Pilates.

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Lauren Emily Whalen's avatar

Towanda!

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Eve's avatar

YES!!! "Face it girls (couple), I'm older and have more insurance!"

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Eve's avatar

Came in here to write the same thing! lol I almost wished you had rammed into the back of their car over and over as in this scene!

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Beth's avatar

Full marks referencing my favorite song off of TTPD. Also, entitled gym assholes are the worst - I’d be tempted to leave some strategically placed gum right where they would step in it before entering their pristine car. Just an idea.

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Lisa Lappi's avatar

I like where your head is at!

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Molly Collie's avatar

Ok so as an OG Jen from the blog block reader, “we in a fight” which maybe was re Avis back in the day? Is a mantra I quote often with appropriate attribution. So YEA I am here for mad Jen happy with adult snow day Jen, all the Jen in between so all the PPL and mine sister 😇 Plus extra points for my fave TTPD song as well which I scream sing in the car probably not in a normal therapeutic way.

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Shelly Snyder's avatar

We LOVE mad Jen! Sorry probably not great for your mental health but you not only got a great workout out of it, you also gave us a great post. So, thank you two those rude mother f-ers who stole your spot 😘

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AMANDA KENNER's avatar

I hope they left, and missed out on having a pool day, rather than risk you confronting them pool side. I also hope they’re so terrified of the consequences of their bad behavior that they end up wasting their membership fee because they’re afraid of you. I bet they’re the kind of folks who will pile their stuff on multiple loungers on the most crowed day of the year and then spend all day in the pool and not actually using the loungers they’ve claimed.

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Lisa Lappi's avatar

👏🏼👏🏼❤️

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Sarah Donnelly's avatar

I hope they trembled and left or got a bathroom sprinting stomachache. At least this was rage that you could almost do something about i.e glaring at the offenders, blocking their spot, etc whereas lately it’s all screaming into the void. So there’s that?

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Christine Swendseid's avatar

I did the menacing glare on vacation in Paris dealing with a group of scammers- note- if someone comes up to you when you are waiting in one of the many lines to see something French and Fancy, and asks if you speak English- say NO loudly and give them the death stare. It's a scam. Peri/post menopausal women FTW.

And I am phobic about the gym- for the reasons you raised here. I would literally tear off my own arm and beat myself around the head and shoulders with it if forced to go there LOL

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Lauren Emily Whalen's avatar

Paris scammers are the WORST. I've been several times and I feel like people have tried to kidnap me from the airport at least twice.

Believe me, scammers, I am bitchier than I look.

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Marlo Leaman's avatar

I saw your IG story Friday and wondered what was the full story! Too bad you couldn’t have just parked behind them and left your car there so they couldn’t get out. (Then you’d be in the lane I know but still!) 😆

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Juliet's avatar

I’m so with you on this one. And I’ve literally had that same conversation with my partner with exactly the same response. And yet, if someone cuts him off in traffic he flinches and panics, so he asks me to drive all the time.

Rude gym m-fuckers!

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Wendy Green's avatar

Why do people have to be such assholes? Same thing happened to us in a restaurant parking lot. I don’t think the other couple enjoyed my husband glaring and hissing at them in the entryway during the 20 minute wait for their table. 😂

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Melissa Browning's avatar

I need to channel some of your gym anger energy! I also stay away on a Saturday and often find myself at Costco on the weekend and am instantly angry at myself for doing that.

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Susie's avatar

So sorry that you are dealing with all that!

Yeah, “snow day! “ That’s how I feel sometimes when I make plans months ahead to have lunch with a friend and then they have to cancel.

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Lisa Lappi's avatar

I suspect he’s wrong too and I would put money on that! Love your use of the word “yeeted”. ❤️

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Lauren Emily Whalen's avatar

I present to you a text I sent to my best friend a few weeks ago after my Sunday morning aerial yoga class. When I tell you I was PISSED.

"So many people walked in late, which you’re absolutely not supposed to do (to the point where some instructors will lock you out). One blatantly walked to the back while still wearing her shoes when there is a shoe rack right when you come in. One person asks a question about fabric length that was answered at the beginning of class that she was not there for. And then one chick strolls in super late (she thought it started at 11, not 10:45, the instructor is nicer than I am because I would have kicked her rude ass out), and proceeds to YAWN LOUDLY SEVERAL TIMES without covering her mouth. I did roll my eyes and scoff at that last one because I couldn’t keep it in any longer."

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Nancy S's avatar

I would have done the same thing although one of these days I will end up getting shanked.

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Julie S.'s avatar

Oh my goodness, I LOVE this!

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