Thu 8 Sep 2005
Coming out of the gym 45 mins ago, I ran into the floor manager there who stopped me to chat. We have a bit of a history; I used to think he was cute when he was a personal trainer and then we started talking and he wanted to hang out. I was fine with it as long as it was on a friendly basis. The guy was an octopus and I found him such a social spaz that I stopped contact with him altogether and stopped going to that gym. Now that I’m training my coworker at the gym and she doesn’t have membership to the other gym I had been going to at lunch, I’m back to dealing w/him. He again asked for another shot, having complimented me to death that I’m “hot.” (In my rat-shit look.) I said I’m dealing with too much as it is to handle anything other than friendship. He was agreeable, and I said, “Wait. As long as ‘hanging out as friends’ isn’t the same ‘hanging out as friends’ as you handled it last time.” He said, “No, I learned my lesson from last time!” Maybe this isn’t a good idea at all, but I don’t want to be a bitch to him because to train my coworker, I’m gonna have to be at that gym A LOT now. Maybe I’ll just let him and this other guy who works at the gym who started following me around and talking to me yesterday (and again did so today) duke it out.
There is always the headphones solution
Except that when I leave the gym to go back to work I don’t wear headphones out.
you could wear a wedding band lol
That’s a damn good idea. Except that workout gloves hide rings, adn working out w/rings on is a bad idea. And it’s too late now anyway because the first thing he asked was, “So what’s going on w/you? Anything new? Getting married?” and I had been idiotically honest.
you know those trips to vegas can spring surprising results, if you get my drift. Or i am so sick of men, that I have decided to take ellen degeneris up on her generous offer
Btw I meant the trips to vegas could spring an alibi of gettting engaged, not asking you to marry me, I reread my post and realised that it looked like I was suggesting a trip to vegas, god forbid.
By octopus, do you mean that he was clingy?
Honestly if he messes up as a friend again, just be honest. You don’t have to be a bitch to be honest. Things will be ok, don’t worry.
By “octopus,” I meant that he had his hands all over me.
I don’t expect him to stay put on friend status. I expect he’ll try something again. So I am not going to go out with him. I’ll just be “busy” a lot. I mean, I am anyway, so that wouldn’t be that hard. And he’s busy too.