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Originally Posted by Montecore
My gym only has one power cage, and as I was doing squat and press I was in there a while today, maybe 45 minutes. At some point after I finished squatting (I think I was done with my press warm up sets) some guy comes over and asks how much longer I'm going to be -- I told him about 10 minutes or so and he gave a little grimace and went on his way. For the remainder of the time I was in the gym, he was throwing plates all over the ground at various weight trees and Smith machines, and muttering to himself, even after I gave up the cage. He wasn't a hardcore guy or anything (his work set was half squats with 155 and the pussy pad) and I thought he was just pissed at me for taking up the cage for so long. While that may well have been part of it, I finally figured out that he was pissed about the plates being out of order. He was literally moving every plate to the correct height on the tree while trying to guilt the other two people in the gym about it. I have no idea how this guy functions in life if that's enough to put him over the edge; I'll move a few things around here and there to clean things up, but he literally did the whole gym in between sets of his workout.
You read people poorly. He was pissed at you, and taking his frustrations out by slamming and rearranging plates.
Don't press in cage if someone wants to use it. Rarely if never will somebody interrupt a session to ask how long, if they are just going to curl, because there are really are 20 other options at any gym.
You could have cleaned one of the bars off the many flat benches, incline benches or short bars, that I'm sure your gym has.