Stupid Gym Folk, vol. 2: Yogi Bogeys

This time it happened during my Sunday yoga class. It starts promptly at 11:30 and space is extremely limited. I am always the first one in and I end up being squished by stupid women who have no concept of "personal space." At 11:28, a woman came in and stood in the back of the room with a tiny rubber mat that wasn't a yoga mat at all and she just kept scanning the room expecting a space to magically appear for her. I was feeling especially bitchy because my space was invaded by stupid people, so I yelled at her from across the room: "There's no more room." Then the instructor came in and told her the same thing. She dropped the rubber mat and stormed out and I led the class in a mass laugh at her. But the stupidness doesn't stop there...

A couple of minutes later, two more women came in and saw that there was no room. They decided to participate outside of the studio in the small space where people stretch. The problem with that was that they wouldn't be able to hear the instructor and their mats were overlapping onto the running track. About fifteen minutes into the class, one of the women came into the studio and had the nerve to ask the instructor if he could face the outside so they could see him better. In a moment of pure anger, I and another woman blurted out at the same time: "NO."

People running on the track kept having to maneuver around the womens' mats and finally someone told them to get the fuck off. They argued for about five minutes and then someone from the front desk came and told them to go away. We all got a good laugh out of it and I hope those stupid women saw us so they'd be too embarrassed to come back.

I think people are missing the whole point of the yoga. How can anyone find their center when there's a lot of running, weight slamming, talking, and loud music going on? It takes an awful lot of concentration to ignore the gym environment when you're not inside a quiet room. I think it's counterproductive and the women should be beaten with a rubber hose.