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Yoga mat placement etiquette
I don't understand how people don't get spacing out for a class. First in regular group exercise classes, not spacing out means you can get hit in the face with a foot. Not cool.
Secondly, not spacing out in a class with yoga mats means you're inches away from someone's stinky feet - that's gross - and also you can get hit in the face with a foot. So doubly not cool.
Yet people continue to assume that just putting a yoga mat pretty much inches from a person who had gotten there well before class started is acceptable. I don't get it. I also don't get why there are some people who have HUGE gaps of space and don't move their mat into that space so they aren't inches away from another person's mat or to make room for another person.
I'm usually on time for class and I stake out a spot. Then inevitably, some dumbass with no sense of personal space will flop their mat pretty much side by side or three inches behind/in front of mine or worst, right beside mine with no space in-between. WHAT? We're not friends or doing couples yoga, why are you this close to me?? I secretly am seething inside but I don't say anything for fear of being labeled as "that bitch" (as I tend to be a regular in most of the classes I attend).
We'll then flip our mats to north-to-south for sun salutations and then people that had, at one point, been at a good spacing away from me will then suddenly move INCHES FROM ME WHEN we flip back to west-to-east. Even though there is enough space on the OTHER side of them to swing a cat, they just creeped in even closer to me. Sometimes when those dumbasses do this, I will sigh and move my mat further away from them because I'm considerate, they probably don't want my feet right up by their faces when we lie down, but sometimes there's no other space on the other side because THAT PERSON IN THE OTHER SIDE OF ME HAS ALWAYS MOSEYED on closer to me.
So that results in being in a yoga mat sandwich.
Don't even get me started on other yoga class grievances like 1) people who heavy breathe so loudly, huffing and puffing that you can barely relax in class 2) dousing themselves in stinky perfume FOR THE GYM and you're supposed to be inhaling and exhaling but all you smell is skank perfume 3) many other things that I will post about eventually
Secondly, not spacing out in a class with yoga mats means you're inches away from someone's stinky feet - that's gross - and also you can get hit in the face with a foot. So doubly not cool.
Yet people continue to assume that just putting a yoga mat pretty much inches from a person who had gotten there well before class started is acceptable. I don't get it. I also don't get why there are some people who have HUGE gaps of space and don't move their mat into that space so they aren't inches away from another person's mat or to make room for another person.
I'm usually on time for class and I stake out a spot. Then inevitably, some dumbass with no sense of personal space will flop their mat pretty much side by side or three inches behind/in front of mine or worst, right beside mine with no space in-between. WHAT? We're not friends or doing couples yoga, why are you this close to me?? I secretly am seething inside but I don't say anything for fear of being labeled as "that bitch" (as I tend to be a regular in most of the classes I attend).
We'll then flip our mats to north-to-south for sun salutations and then people that had, at one point, been at a good spacing away from me will then suddenly move INCHES FROM ME WHEN we flip back to west-to-east. Even though there is enough space on the OTHER side of them to swing a cat, they just creeped in even closer to me. Sometimes when those dumbasses do this, I will sigh and move my mat further away from them because I'm considerate, they probably don't want my feet right up by their faces when we lie down, but sometimes there's no other space on the other side because THAT PERSON IN THE OTHER SIDE OF ME HAS ALWAYS MOSEYED on closer to me.
So that results in being in a yoga mat sandwich.
Don't even get me started on other yoga class grievances like 1) people who heavy breathe so loudly, huffing and puffing that you can barely relax in class 2) dousing themselves in stinky perfume FOR THE GYM and you're supposed to be inhaling and exhaling but all you smell is skank perfume 3) many other things that I will post about eventually
Escalator turds
Escalator usage has been something I've discussed/raged about before (walk left, stand right, people!) but this is a new layer of inconsiderate assholery.
I'm talking about people who go up the escalator or down the escalator, realize there's a bus or train down there that someone behind them may want to catch (especially with buses, it's more dire because a missed bus could mean a 20 minute wait in a sketchy station) but then they just casually stand or walk slowly on the left, oblivious to the person right behind them who wants to get by. And the worst is when they suddenly slow down or stop RIGHT ON A STEP THAT IS BESIDE SOMEONE ELSE IS STANDING ON THE RIGHT - so you're trapped. You can say excuse me and what have you, but then you seem like an asshole for telling them to move out of the way.
And sometimes they just completely slow down and halt right at the end of the escalator and you're trying to catch the bus so you have to carefully maneuver around them to avoid crashing into them.
I hate these idiots.
I'm talking about people who go up the escalator or down the escalator, realize there's a bus or train down there that someone behind them may want to catch (especially with buses, it's more dire because a missed bus could mean a 20 minute wait in a sketchy station) but then they just casually stand or walk slowly on the left, oblivious to the person right behind them who wants to get by. And the worst is when they suddenly slow down or stop RIGHT ON A STEP THAT IS BESIDE SOMEONE ELSE IS STANDING ON THE RIGHT - so you're trapped. You can say excuse me and what have you, but then you seem like an asshole for telling them to move out of the way.
And sometimes they just completely slow down and halt right at the end of the escalator and you're trying to catch the bus so you have to carefully maneuver around them to avoid crashing into them.
I hate these idiots.
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