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“I absolutely
hate it when
someone walks
over to me and
tries to shake my
hand in the bath-
room. What’s
worse is that
most times they
don’t even wash
their hands!”

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C O U N T E R C L O C K W I S E F R O M L E F T : C H R I S N I C O L L ( 2 ) ; E D G A R A RT I G A
ANGELICA JEREMY POTVIN
TEIXEIRA “It drives me nuts
“I can’t stand it when that there are people
people drop weights in crowded gyms who

and make a huge decide to use three or
noise just to draw more pieces of equip-
attention.” ment at a time.”
DEREK LUNSFORD

“I have two. There’s no need to be rude in the WHITNEY JONES KEVIN ENGLISH
gym or act like you’re better than others. It’s “It’s got to be the “I hate it when
really not that hard to be nice to everyone. selfie takers who people don’t put
Another one, especially at public gyms, is after pose in front of equip- their weights back
you finish one set, someone jumps right onto ment or, worse, in or when people will
the machine you were using. It’s funny, but front of the dumbbell constantly interrupt
frustrating. Normally, I’ll ask to work out on racks! Move so seri- my workout to take
the machine together, or I ignore it and go find ous people can lift.” videos of their sets
another machine.” and workouts.”

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