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Penguin Micro-Rants
HELLO!?! No, Not Busy… Just Doing Squats Babe.
January 17th —Taking phone calls at the gym
Welcome to the Penguin Micro-rants. I have committed to a rant a day for January. Why? Why not! Phone etiquette is turning out to be one of my bugbears. I have to say this really has become a voyage of self-discovery for me. A few weeks ago I went on a rant about people I know who take their own phone calls on my time.
Today I’d like to assert that also applies to people who are in the gym, you know who you are.
The gym is a place I go to exercise. It shouldn’t be an operating switchboard for incoming calls. And yes, I’m specifically talking about that guy who seems to have a rolling collection of incoming calls, his half of which need to be shouted at full volume.
I know they’re shouted at full volume because I can hear it over the podcast I’m listening to. Yes, it may look like I’ve got banging rock anthems playing to push me to my physical best, but in reality, I’m listening to Mike Duncan walk me through the French Revolution.
That’s just how Penguins roll.
So why do I need to hear the latest news about Brittany’s chlamydia test? And more important than that, why do I need to only hear the dull half…
