Is That Really Neccessary?! (A Weekly Rant)

Welcome to my new weekly rant. There are too many things we encounter in our every day routines that in reality, if we all quit doing them, would make life a whole let better. Then I wouldn’t walk around all the time rolling my eyes and thinking (often times out loud): “Puh-lease is that really necessary?” (Hence the title of my column)

By Jill

So each week I will feature something new that we really could all live without. Consider it a lesson in public manners. Your mother will thank me… and you should too.

This week: People who talk (often way to loudly) on their cell phones while at the gym.

Okay people are we for serious here? How am I supposed to lip-synch along with Umbrella-ella-ella if all I hear coming through my headphones OVER my music is:

“No way!! She did? Wow well Jenny got that top two months ago”.

Seriously people, if you can talk that fast while on the elliptical, you probably aren’t exerting your maximum workout potential. So why even bother? Save yourself some energy and go gab with that friend on the other end of the phone over a big brownie sundae. Leave me to workout in peace.

Really I simply don’t get it. You workout for what, like mayyybe an hour a day and you can’t stay away from your cell phone?

Take a lesson from me since clearly your mama didn’t teach you. It is common courtesy to keep your trap shut while on the treadmill. Nothing is that important that can’t wait for your sweat session to be over. And frankly, I don’t care to hear about the gossip in your life. Not to mention your workout time should be a time for you to de-stress, reenergize and focus on what really matters (ie, the fact that someone has the same top as Jenny = not important in the scheme of things). Focus on yourself for a small chunk of time. Why short change yourself some personal bonding time?

So please, I beg you, turn off your cell so I don’t have to turn up my music (and go deaf from trying to drown out your chitter-chatter).

Is that really necessary? Didn’t think so.