At the gym I used to work out at, there was a guy who flipped out in pretty much the same way. Nobody made a big deal out of it at the time, and he wasn't reported.

But about a week later, the dude all of a sudden just stopped showing up to exercise. We kinda missed him and we all wondered what had happened but didn't try very hard to find out. Well, we found out much later what became of him. He ended up getting a job out of state and had to move. But the crazy thing is that he never officially cancelled his membership! Some people truly are insane.

WHY THE **** WAS THIS POST WORTHY???...DID THIS STORY GO ANYWHERE???...DID ANYONE DIE???...WHO DO U THINK YOU ARE???...I WILL PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE IF YOU POST SOMETHING LIKE THIS AGAIN!...AND IF I EVER SEE YOU AGAIN...WATCH OUT!...NOW....GRAB A HOLD OF MY LEFT POCKET AND BEHAVE YOU LIL BIT CH.

no...i think he should talk to management if not only to have this on record.

i think this is a no brainer...demand full refund of gym membership and switch gyms.


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Eh, I'd rip the dude's throat out, watch him choke to death, and think up some excuse afterwards.

But I'm short-tempered.

lol

Going to management was a wuss move. Maybe I'm just old school, but a guy gets in my face I work it out with him. Going to management is like snitching to the teacher. Remember, snitches get stitches.

I'm about the same age, and I don't claim to have everything figured out--but I can't imagine not having THIS one figured out by the age of 38.

this is easy...

"get the **** outta my face" i think is the proper response.

So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say.

Lol at getting in the face of a roid raging monster for laughing. I don't think you prove that you're a man by fighting him, you just prove that you get bruises like everyone else. Relax, not a big deal, people are going to intimidate you but you didn't really lose anything, so let it go. If you had something to lose you would have stood up to him so don't get tangled up over this.

I'm not sure how I'd deal with it, but there's no ****ing way I'm engaging in any dumb symbolic shaking of hands.

Now that you have a target on your back, you might want to avoid bending over in the shower.

It never ceases to amaze me how people get so hung up on thinking everyone around them is thinking about them/talking about them.

This is why there is so much social anxiety out there. We portray characteristis and behaviors on other people that most of us ourselves never do. When I am at the gym I don't go around judging every person I see. I see all sorts of people and I rarely think twice about any of them or form any kind of opinion. Essentially in and out. Only when you realize this is how almost EVERYONE acts and reacts do you understand it is silly to think others are standing around judging / commenting on you.

For this guy to flip out about that means his self-esteem and confidence is absolute zero. 100 out of 100 times the person is not laughing at him.

The way you get people to judge you and form an opinion on you is to make a spectacle of himself. Before this happened I am sure nobody knew or cared who or what he is. Afterwards lots of people had opinions on him, most all of them negative.

OP - just cause it needs to be said... i dont believe you. why were you really laughing at him?

Yeah I'm kind of thinking the same thing. Did the dude have a hairlip or something like that - where you'd feel like an ass for admitting you laughed about it?

I just can't believe that the employee made you two shake hands. I would feel completely belittled by that. OP, how do you now know how to handle a situation like this?

OP used to use bar soap, till he found out it took longer to pick up soap flakes.

i know right?!

don't go to ghetto gyms imo.

mine just has MILFs and old people and a few young'uns.

imo

You found out this happened when your friend was like "Hey remember when you went on a meth binge and gunned that dude down?" And you were all, "No way, that dude's dead now?" And he was all, "Yeah, how do you not remember? You forced me to drive you to him so you could slay the dragon." And you were all, "I'm shocked to hear somebody whacked that guy..." Then he was all quiet, and just sort of ignored you for a few moments before saying "Yeah, me too. Me too. Let's go to Sonic."

I didn't see a fight or a flight in this story. If you were in the jungle a lion would have eated you up.

Ya cuz IM from the streets and thats how we deal with people who act responsibly!!

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so many idiots living what they hear in rap songs