I love this thread for the express reason to vent my frustrations. This is an excellent bump. I started training at Gold's Gym in Pittsburgh for the past 6 weeks, so I can be around some other National Competitors to give me some motivation for The North American Championships. Anyway, the owner pulled me aside tonight and said to me that he had received over 20 complaints about me for: intimidation, dropping F-bombs, slamming weights, etc. He politely said I had to tone it down a little bit or he would have to ask me to leave. When he was telling me this I felt my temperature rise to about 200 degrees. I said, "fuck it, this is a gym not a nursing home. Do you expect me to pass out lollipops and sing lullabies"? I thought dude was way out-of-line for confronting me about those kind of Mickey Mouse reasons. I feel the gym is a battleground, not a playground, so I told him to fuck off and I quit the gym.
There's no fucking bodybuilding gyms left. Not many anyways. My gym is full of pansies. The other gym in my town is loaded with college faggots and cardio queens. There's a real old school meathead gym in the city a half hour away(38 minute drive with traffic) but with my big ass truck getting 13mpg I just cant pull it off financially 5 days a week. It would cost me $20 a month for membership and $100 a week in gas to travel to train.
Led, I highly doubt you were intimidating anyone intentionally. If I had to guess... your training intensity and general demeanor in your own space whilst training was intimidating to a bunch of queer-bags and they complained.
How the fuck do you go through life like that? Oh no...someone is big and loud....I feel threatened.... I have an idea for those folks....go fucking kill yourself.