Talking to strangers at the gym
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Talking to strangers at the gym
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#3I loved the writing, in particular this line, but the whole piece was strangely endearing:
I asked if he was Canadian. He wasn't. The endRe: Talking to strangers at the gym
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Before initiating a TCP/IP handshake, you need to have initiated a TCP/IP handshake.
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WTF, saying hi to a stranger is not harassment? What's wrong with people these days…
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Is this true of any public places in the UK or mainly just gyms?
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#7I think picking up people at the bar is easier than making friends at the gym - what you want is to join a crossfit gym, or something that has a stronger community culture to it. Not the gym.
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wtf, how do you even get consent before contact?
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YMMV but every gym I've been to in the US had a huge social component.
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> You need prior consent, before you initiate contact!
... How does that work?
It's really weird, I mean I can understand that people (honestly mostly women) dislikes having a ton of random people chatting them up at the gym. It probably gets tiresome really quickly.
On the other hand you have people just staring into their phone between sets, so it seems like a good time to talk. There might be no overlap between these groups of people, but we have a epidemic of people complaining about being lonely while we also have people spewing out "Don't talk to me ever" and who freezes if the person behind the register at the supermarket has the audacity to talk to them.