Gym members who fail to understand or follow gym etiquette can turn your focused, intense workout into an unproductive session. From a distance, poor gym etiquette can be a big joke. Read more about how people at the gym behave selfishly and inappropriately, with no clue and bad manners.
After growing up in the suburbs, I am having a novel experience here in urban Miami. Dog owners take their dogs wherever they go — into the drug store, the supermarket, even restaurants. Nobody seems to notice or care. Either we live in a new culture where dogs are equivalent to children, or there is…
My wife’s high-end health club has an indoor waterfall behind the front desk. It’s the kind of place where you might find an empty Perrier bottle left on the gym floor. I wouldn’t want to be a member, but I’d love to try it out with one of her guest passes. Unfortunately, she forbids it….
Gyms tend to make too big a deal out of mirror etiquette. A gym’s posted rules will always include on the list something about dropping weights, some gym-specific oddball rule like “No beverages except water allowed on the gym floor,” and then a note about not interfering with members’ line-of-sight to the wall mirror. I’m…
If you’re at a group dinner and the conversation starts to fizzle, here’s an idea: Play a game where each guest shares a pet peeve — for example, when you waste time on a meeting that could just as easily have been an email. I played this game recently at a work function, and it…
I am a subscriber to a free newsletter about advice for introverts. The emails are often funny, but not because the author is trying to make a joke. Rather, it’s the bullseye observations that make me laugh. For example, one post described things that are most irritating to introverts: phone calls after 6 pm, talkative…