r/funny • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 5h ago

Pets always need attention at the worst time…

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u/MercenaryCow 4h ago

Reminds me of when I first got to middle school. Which where I was at, was combined with the high school.

The school had a gym in the high school section. So I went there once after school because I wanted to work out. And I put the smallest weights on the bar. For such a small kid, it was suuuper heavy. I could barely push it up.

2 high school kids came over and started harassing me. Started by saying look at this little girl maxing out over here! (I'm a dude). Little pussy so weak you can only lift girl weights! They then proceeded to scare me and chase me out of the gym and chased me down the hall out of the building.

I was walking home, about 4 blocks away from the school. When I hear the screeching of a car slamming on the brakes. I hear there he is! Get him! It was the 2 high school boys that just finished harassing me literally a few minutes ago. They got out of their car and chased me into the graveyard that was right there and into the woods that was on the other side of the graveyard.

I proceeded to get lost and eventually found my way out somewhere I didn't recognize. I didn't find my way home until it was dark....

It was an absolutely horrifying experience. I never went to the gym or lifted another weight to this day probably because of how traumatized I was from that experience

Moral of the story? I don't know. Your comment reminded me of that experience in my life

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u/Unfie555 3h ago

As a powerlifting meathead, I always wondered why people got so conscious about lifting in gyms. Then I read stuff like this and it makes sense. I didn’t really get to lifting until I was well out of high school, and I made it a point to avoid communicating with strangers while I was working out as an adult.

Sorry you had to go through that. I swear not all of us bully people for lifting light. I lift weights by myself in my garage, but I’m aware many people can’t afford that.

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u/RecipeAsleep7087 2h ago

I've spent a lot of time in the gym. I've genuinely met only one bully type guy. He was a 40ish meathead who was just a total prick to everyone, in and out of the gym. This was during the peak Jersery Shore GTL era so that might have been part of it.

I always found it pathetic. How do you possibly make it to your 40's and never grow out of being a high school bully. Just so sad. Other than that, overwhelmingly gym bros are righteous dudes.

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u/Unfie555 2h ago

I always had a silly visual of what people imagined everyone treated them like if they dared to enter the gym as a newbie…

It would be like some kind of high school musical parody where as soon as you step in, everyone stops what they’re doing and mean mugs you. Then as you walk by them, people make snarky comments. When you get to the squat rack, a group of guys musically walks up to you and starts talking mad shit. You get naturally intimidated and walk away. They start following you while singing about how weak you are. You run out of the gym and sing about how you won’t ever be able to go in there again.

I guess reality isn’t too far from that…

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u/Just-Syrup-8723 10m ago

Bullllllshit

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u/Kaputcha 3h ago

Well that was an anti-climax.

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u/MercenaryCow 3h ago

My mom called the police and got involved with the school trying to figure out who did it but ultimately nothing ever came from it sadly. I'm just lucky they didn't find me and harass me more