Shut up! JUST SHUT UP!!

There are some times when getting to know your friendly neighborhood is a nice option.
Getting to know your neighbors while selling random crap at a yard sale is a great time to get to know people... While I am trying to bench press 275 pounds 8 times is not.

There is a reason that people act arrogant and stiff at the gym- it's because it is not a time to chit chat. It is not a time to tell me that you graduated from UNT back in 1955- (the year my mother was born), it is not the time to ask me about my relationships, or to talk to me period.

When I am at the gym, I have to be focused. I have a certain amount of time- usually 30 minutes to an hour to take my 300 pounds over to the stairmaster and get good and sweaty, and then the remainder of the time is spent pressing weights.

Does this sound rude? Maybe. Does this sound mean? Probably.

But what I want more than anything when I am at gym is to be left alone. Please don't comment about how big I am and ask me if I have ever played football, and why I am not playing now. Just because I have the physique to do something does not mean I have the desire. Trust me- desire is 99% of it.

Yes, I do know my calves are massive, no, I do nothing to work them out, so I cannot be proud of them- it is like bragging about being tall- I had nothing to do with it- or this amazingly wonderful shade of brown- that was my gift from God. (Thank you God by the way, it is a nice shade of brown and I do like being tall.)

Acceptable gym behavior- if I know you- is to give me a head nod, or at the most a "was' up" but don't expect to really find out "was' up" cause I have no time to tell you.

So, the next time I see you at the Gym, although we have been going to the same one for the last 5 years and we still look the same- do not come up to me and start bantering about anything. Do not mention the weather, do not make small talk- I will not think that you are rude, on the contrary, I will think you are awesome. Everyone who has ever worked out at the gym knows this unspoken law.