I almost didn't click on this, but I gotta say: lotta good stuff here. However, I would take exception to a couple:
#14 I'd be very, very careful about that.
#20 Are you kidding? The bow tie has endured for a reason.
Special mention: I was very glad to see this: #18 I'm old enough (old af) to remember the days when the biggest guys in the gym (more likely called a 'weight room' then) would take the smallest or least athletic guys under their wing, like a big brother. Gyms nowadays are a disgrace that way. ...Also: in those days, if you joined a gym, became a regular, and did *not* talk to people, you were the creep, and you were looked at with suspicion. Again, gyms now are horrible that way. Then again, if you work out at a corporate gym, you're working out at the exercise equivalent of McDonalds.
#14 Maybe a corollary of that would be, "...and have the skills to get him out of trouble without taking too much damage. Or don't put yourself in such situations."
I almost didn't click on this, but I gotta say: lotta good stuff here. However, I would take exception to a couple:
#14 I'd be very, very careful about that.
#20 Are you kidding? The bow tie has endured for a reason.
Special mention: I was very glad to see this: #18 I'm old enough (old af) to remember the days when the biggest guys in the gym (more likely called a 'weight room' then) would take the smallest or least athletic guys under their wing, like a big brother. Gyms nowadays are a disgrace that way. ...Also: in those days, if you joined a gym, became a regular, and did *not* talk to people, you were the creep, and you were looked at with suspicion. Again, gyms now are horrible that way. Then again, if you work out at a corporate gym, you're working out at the exercise equivalent of McDonalds.
#14 Maybe a corollary of that would be, "...and have the skills to get him out of trouble without taking too much damage. Or don't put yourself in such situations."
#14 I'd be very, very careful about that.
#20 Are you kidding? The bow tie has endured for a reason.
Special mention: I was very glad to see this: #18 I'm old enough (old af) to remember the days when the biggest guys in the gym (more likely called a 'weight room' then) would take the smallest or least athletic guys under their wing, like a big brother. Gyms nowadays are a disgrace that way. ...Also: in those days, if you joined a gym, became a regular, and did *not* talk to people, you were the creep, and you were looked at with suspicion. Again, gyms now are horrible that way. Then again, if you work out at a corporate gym, you're working out at the exercise equivalent of McDonalds.