Entries Tagged as 'gym'

know sweat

July 7th, 2009 · 89 Comments

Writes Jaime in Austin: “My husband and I lift weights at Gold’s Gym and we love it (no, really!) — except for their new signage reminding people to mop up their sweat.”

Meanwhile, next door…
(Well, sort of.) Kathryn spotted this similarly understated/backhanded message in a chichi Orlando, Florida boutique.

related: like a rotten sponge

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Tags: austin · gym · hygiene · retail hell

all i want for christmas

December 16th, 2008 · 61 Comments

writes monica in salt lake city, utah: “the hip abduction machine has been broken at my local gym for almost the entire year. the powers that be claim it will be fixed ’soon,’” monica says, but it looks like one fellow gym-goer decided to take up the issue with an even higher power.

related: evidently, yes

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Tags: gym · holiday spirit · salt lake city · utah

there is a poor speller among us

June 30th, 2008 · 99 Comments

writes our anonymous submitter from kentucky: “I work at a gym. I was checking the women’s locker room to make sure it wasn’t a fetid stinkpit (it wasn’t) when I saw three of these lying on the counter. i went to throw them out and found a whole mess of them in the trashcan, too.”

related: [...]

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Tags: gym · kentucky · rebuttals · spelling and grammar police · stealing

if you needed an excuse to skip the gym today

March 28th, 2008 · 101 Comments

well, our anonymous contributor in pompano beach, florida has one for you.
he explains: “i keep a gym membership just so that i can feel good about my financial commitment to my health — not so much for the actual health benefits per se. i hadn’t been to the gym in at least two months when [...]

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Tags: actually totally reasonable · florida · gym · shit · shower · that shit is disgusting · that's unsanitary

like a rotten sponge

August 5th, 2007 · 22 Comments

by popular demand, ellen in acton, mass. has sent in a photo of the note that appeared next to the one about spitting in the water fountain on her gym’s suggestion board…

the original “no spitting” note has since been taken down, ellen says. “in its place was one saying that people should stop focusing on [...]

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Tags: excessive underlining · gym · massachusetts · odor

evidently, yes

August 2nd, 2007 · 42 Comments

 ellen in acton, mass. spotted this on the suggestion board at her gym.

at least they don’t have a mad bomber on the loose…yet.

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Tags: group bitchfest · gym · massachusetts · oh snap · spitting

The Mad Bomber, Act 3: We are watching you

May 25th, 2007 · 57 Comments

If you missed them, catch  up with Act 1 and Act 2 of the Mad Bomber saga. Here, the  (somewhat anti-climactic) conclusion:

It appears that season one of this series concludes with a dramatic cliffhanger ending. Will the Mad Bomber be caught in the act? Will Richard G. Sells post another notice outing the bomber for [...]

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Tags: bathroom · exclamation-point happy! · gym · more aggressive than passive · not-so-veiled threats · toilet

The Mad Bomber, Act 2: Please stay seated during the entire performance

May 23rd, 2007 · 35 Comments

If you missed it, Act 1 is where this saga begins. Here, we see Richard G. Sell’s frustration grow to a fever pitch…

And it continues with Act 3…

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Tags: "helpful" advice · exclamation-point happy! · gym · not-so-veiled threats · shit · toilet

The Mad Bomber, Act 1: “Sorry about the language”

May 22nd, 2007 · 39 Comments

I don’t want to oversell this, but the following series of three signs (sent in by a health-club patron who wishes to remain nameless) just became my new all-time favorite. I love so many things about Richard G. Sells’s first masterpiece (below) that I don’t even know where to begin.

The best part, I think, might [...]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · bathroom · exclamation-point happy! · gym · not-so-veiled threats · p.s. · shit