{"id":528,"date":"2005-06-13T23:52:32","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T06:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2005-06-13T23:56:16","modified_gmt":"2005-06-14T06:56:16","slug":"personal-space-a-gym-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Personal space (a gym story)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody has a certain amount of personal space they need to feel comfortable. That&#8217;s why Seinfeld had the episode about the close talker. Well, I think the comfortable distance necessary for my personal space is VASTLY INCREASED when there are WEIRD NAKED DUDES around. So, if I&#8217;m changing my clothes at the gym, and I just stood up from sitting on a stool and I&#8217;m taking my pants off, DO NOT PUT YOUR FOOT ON THE SAME STOOL AND START DRYING YOUR FOOT WITH A TOWEL. That would put YOUR HEAD VERY NEAR MY ASS and it would make me feel VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. ESPECIALLY NOT WHILE YOU&#8217;RE NAKED. OK? Got that you freakishly odd bicycle spin class dweeb?<\/p>\n<p>Yeesh.<\/p>\n<p>So I saw a woman I know from the gym getting into her car and I didn&#8217;t recognize her! It was the first time I saw with makeup on and from a distance she looked pretty different. Who is this woman waving at me? I thought it was her, but I couldn&#8217;t be sure. Oh, well. I finally talked to her and tried to guilt her into going to the gym. If only she didn&#8217;t have a huge rock on her left hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody has a certain amount of personal space they need to feel comfortable. That&#8217;s why Seinfeld had the episode about the close talker. Well, I think the comfortable distance necessary for my personal space is VASTLY INCREASED when there are WEIRD NAKED DUDES around. So, if I&#8217;m changing my clothes at the gym, and I just stood up from sitting on a stool and I&#8217;m taking my pants off, DO NOT PUT YOUR FOOT ON THE SAME STOOL AND START DRYING YOUR FOOT WITH A TOWEL. That would put YOUR HEAD VERY NEAR MY ASS and it would make me feel VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. ESPECIALLY NOT WHILE YOU&#8217;RE NAKED. OK? Got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Personal space (a gym story).<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}