Wednesday 15 October 2014

Respect others? Really?

Time and again i get stumped by my fellow countrymen, showing complete lack of respect for other human beings around them.
And i am talking about educated, rich and so called elite people.

I go to an upmarket gym in Pune, which is rather exclusive in membership. I was hoping for decent people to bethere when i enrolled. The gym has a rule that during peak hours, patrons should not use any machine for more than 20 minutes so that others can also utilise it. While most people honour this, a certain lady, who is a regular, continues to use it for over 20 mins on a regular basis, even when she sees other people standing around and waiting.

Today, exasperated by her selfishness and insensitivity, I asked the trainer to get her off the machine since it was 25 mins. When asked to do so, she made faces and immediately hit the 'cool down' button. The cool down itself is for 4 more minutes. Effectively, she came down after full 30 minutes and then gave me the dirty look, since i was next in queue.

I mean, really?