At my local gym, things were busy when I managed to grab an empty bench near the dumbbell racks. However, another woman had claimed a bench too, but instead of using it for its purpose, she was using it as a spot to stash her belongings. What caught my attention, though, was how she had set up her camera directly in front of the rack, four feet away from the weights, as if it were part of her workout.
It was frustrating, especially since I was inadvertently in her shot and didn’t want to be filmed. I was about to head to the front desk to report it when I saw a man walk past her camera to place his weights down. She paused, visibly annoyed, and seemed to restart her recording. But when the same man walked in front of the camera again, it seemed deliberate.
This time, she stopped lifting and confronted him, visibly irritated.
Woman: “Could you not? You can see I’m recording.”
Man: “Could you not? People are trying to actually work out here.”
Though she returned to her recording, more gym-goers began to deliberately walk through her shot, and I joined in with a cheery “Excuse me” and a smile as I did. Eventually, she had enough, looking like she was ready to throw a fit before storming out of the gym, her recording session clearly interrupted for good.
