What does it mean when you are so apathetic to gym members that you could give a shit whether they are offended by what you say or ambivalent to what you ask them to do? What it means is that it is time to move on.

After a couple of confrontations at the gym, I have decided I need to move on from teaching too many classes. Specifically, I need to move on from working on the Upper West Side. I have not met a meaner bunch of people than on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. They certainly are the most awful people to be around for the mere fact that they have a huge sense of self-entitlement PLUS absolutely no sense of self-worth. It's like dealing with a bunch of belligerent lemmings.

Last Saturday, after a truly disheartening class, I got to thinking if I was the only person who felt this way about the Upper West Side. Thankfully, I was not. A lot of instructors I know will not teach in Upper Manhattan. When asked why, the responses were all eeriely similar: "The people who go to the gym on the UWS think that they own the gym because they have bought a membership to it." Some of you are probably thinking that this is true BUT it is not.

Whey you buy a membership to the gym, it does not give you the right to treat the staff like a bunch of slaves. Last I checked, slavery was outlawed a long time ago. A membership to the gym also does not give you the right to work out anywhere in the gym whenever you please. I still wonder why members think that they can enter a classroom and do their own workout while there is a class in progress. Everywhere else that I know of assumes that if you enter a classroom while there is a class in progress, YOU will be participating in the class. Apparently, the Upper West Side did not get the memo on this common courtesy.

The truth of the matter is that most of the people who live on the UWS are a bunch of whiny, needy assholes who think they know more than they really do. I myself live on the UWS and if it were not for the fact that my partner & I live together and that I am totally & utterly in love with him, I would move the fuck out right after I kill a few of the cunts who populate this god-forsaken hell hole. Later.  ¶ 6:48 PM