Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I witnessed a funny exchange like this once. I attend a small pilates class where some people get very attached to "their" reformer. One such woman arrived to find a young woman (who was new) setting up on "her" reformer and said all huffily "excuse me, you're in my spot." The new woman looked around all fake confused like "oh! How do you sign up for a specific reformer, I didn't see that in the app."
"You can't."
"You don't say!" [lies down on reformer and starts stretching]
The mistake that some seasoned gym attendees make is to equate young and/or new with kind. LOL.
But is the newer person supposed to assume the reformer "belongs" to someone? Are they just supposed to go from reformer to reformer until there's one that hasn't been claimed by some entitled member? If you're all paying the same fees which DON'T include specific claims to spots or equipment, stop whining. There is no "yours" or "mine." If someone is already using your favorite equipment or claimed your favorite spot, tough luck. Get there earlier. We're not talking about giving up a seat on the subway to an elderly person or a pregnant woman. We're talking about pettiness from entitled people who think something that isn't theirs is theirs. These are the same people who expect you to give up your seat on the plane after they booked, knowing they'd be separate from those with whom they're flying, but just expect other passengers to be inconvenienced.