Cell Phone during exercise class -too far??

[clarabelle]

Tonight I went to spin class. If you don't know it is riding a certain kind of exercise bike to music. There is an instructor that tells you to speed up or slow down or add resistance. There is also music

During the class over the music I kept hearing a low murmur. I thought it was two women in the back of class talking the whole time. (This is bad form -but not unheard of)
Anyway I finally turned around and it was a woman on her cell phone!! She was way in the back and not talking loud.

I thought it was very disrespectful to the instructor. Also you just wouldn't get a good workout if you weren't focused and she couldn't have been working that hard or she would not have been able to talk that much.

I was suprised that the instructor didn't tell her to stop.
What do you think??

 

[TheDisneyTraveler06]

That was pretty rude. Unless it was an emergancy of some sort, this call could have waited until after class. If I were the instructor, I would have pulled her aside after class. Sounds to me likes someone's priorities were screwed up...

 

[JustHolly]

That is way too inconsiderate! I hope the instructor pulled her aside after the class (so as not to embarrass her) and told her it was unacceptable.

Geez! In my water aerobics class, we would get yelled at for talking to each other. (it was NEVER me! )

 

[clarabelle]

It wsn't a short call -I would have thought that OK as well (even though I would go outside) It was almost the entire class!!
I really wanted to say something.
But I knew it wasn't really my place. I was just stunned that she thought it was OK

 

[Jpgirl]

The woman was totally out of line and the instructor should've addressed it.I'm a fitness professional and if I had this happen in my class I would've gotten off the bike and gone over and asked herpolitely and quietly to end the phone call or take it outside. I don't mind people talking to each other in class but quite frankly have never had that problem. I always encourage class banter with me and giving encouragement to others. Once I was at a fitness conference in a lecture and somebody's phone goes off. They guy answers and has a whispering conversation. The lecturer walks up to the offender and in a funny non confrontational way asks the guy his name and then asks the name of the person he's talking to and then asks if he can speak to her. So the guy gives up the phone and the lecturer in a nice voice tells the girl that the guy is in the middle of an important lecture so he can further his education in personal training and he knows the girl wouldn't want to interfere with that and then hands the phone back to the guy. Everyone had a good laugh but I tell you I always double check my phone to see that it's off when going into someplace where it's inappropriate to have a phone.

 

[TheDisneyTraveler06]

It wsn't a short call -I would have thought that OK as well (even though I would go outside) It was almost the entire class!!
I really wanted to say something.
But I knew it wasn't really my place. I was just stunned that she thought it was OK

All I can say is "What the heck (to be nice) was this lady thinking?!?)

 

[Kycha]

Sorry to hijack this thread, but I just had to share my experience from the other day.

So, I had an infected tooth and had an emergency appointment at the oral surgeon. I'm sitting in the waiting room and this woman walks in and plops down right next to me. Now the waiting room isn't large. Seats about 20 people. And there is one other guy(besides DH and me) waiting all the way on the other side of the room. Well, doesn't this woman pull out her cell phone and make phone call after phone call for the entire 45 minutes that I waited. Seems that she brought her boss in to get tooth implants, so she had nothing better to do. So here I am, with half my face swollen, in pain and I have to be subjected to this inconsiderate nitwit. I really despise cell phones.

Okay, vent over. Thanks for reading. Things are all good.

 

[yeartolate]

Happily , the movie theater I usually go to alll but sends out a lynch mob when a cell goes off.

I love having a cell phone, but folks are quite disrespectful (and dangerous) with them.

 

[allie&mattsmom]

She can actually hear to carry on a conversation in your spinning class? I go to spinning class a few times a week from 9 am to 9:45. The gym is about 5 minutes from my house and this summer is the first time I've left my kids home alone (11 & 9). I leave my phone on and keep it on the floor and tell my kids to call me if they need something. Well, inevitably they need me . Yesterday my phone rang and it was DD wanting to know if she could download a song to her ipod from itunes. Then DS called 5 minutes later wondering if he could. I can not hear the phone ring b/c the music is too loud. I just notice it on the screen, I grab the phone and go outside the class in the hallway area to talk. My kids have been lectured, especially after yesterday, to only call if it's any emergency. But back to the point, yes, I think it's rude to sit in an excersice class and gab on the phone!

 

[Beth76]

OMG! I can't imagine talking on the phone during spinning. I can barely talk during the class. Yes, she was rude (and obviously not getting a good work out if she can carry a conversation). I've never seen that during spinning but I always see people on the phone at the gym. Hello? You're working out. What could possibly be so important? My phone stays in the car when I'm at the gym. I have plenty of other time during the day to chat.

 

[RitaZ.]

Yeah, I think it's rude, but it seems to be the norm.

It also happens in class, which I absolutely hate. There was one classmate (older woman) whose cell phone ringtone was "Brick House". Ok, I had to laugh at that one.

We went to a classical music concert last month, it was a small and intimate venue. Everyone was sitting really close. In the middle of the concert, a cell phone started ringing. It was disrupting and rude, people were shaking their heads in disapproval and giving the woman dirty looks.

 

[Michie]

The gym I belong to they are banned. If you wish, you can leave them in a bin at the front desk and check to see if you have received any calls.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I think that is hideously rude. I would be p.o.ed if I was in that class/the instructor.

 

[MushyMushy]

Different story:

Yesterday, a friend and I went to visit another friend for the day. We went to tour this old prison, and in the middle of the tour one of my friend's cell phones went off. She answered it! I was so embarrassed to be with her when she did that, and you could hear her say, "I'm in the middle of a tour. Yeah, at XYZ. Yeah, I can't talk now. Okay, byeeee." Instead of shutting off her phone, she left it on and got another call in the middle of the tour!

It actually ticked me off. She was on her phone most of the day -- calling her DH, her brothers, and a few friends. She honestly didn't seem to see anything wrong with it. It's not that I didn't have my phone with me, and I did get a call from my own son during the day (NOT during the tour -- I left the phone in the car when we took the tour). I just couldn't imagine making all these phone calls when I was visiting with friends.

 

[Pop Daddy]

it was probably planned, so she could take a break

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

The gym I belong to they are banned. If you wish, you can leave them in a bin at the front desk and check to see if you have received any calls.

My gym has the same policy...since the introduction of the camera phone, I thought most gyms took this stance.

 

[MeanLaureen]

I wish more businesses would take the stance our Post Offices have. You walk up to the counter on a cell phone, they don't wait on you. They will take the next person in line until you hang up.

If I have to be on the phone in a store and I need to check out, I put the caller on hold, pocket the phone and give the cashier my full attention and pick up the conversation when we are done.

Unfortunately I'm in the minority. Most people talking on a cell phone in my store feel my associates are not worthy enough to get their uninterrupted attention and continue to yack all the way through the sale, completely ignoring my cashiers. Some of them are so engrossed you don't even bother trying to talk to them. Just ring the product up and point to the screen because no matter how many times you tell them the total, are oblivious.

Cell phones have really brought out the entitlement in some people, haven't they?

And why do people feel the need to talk so much louder than normal when they are on one?

 

[MeanLaureen]

My gym has the same policy...since the introduction of the camera phone, I thought most gyms took this stance.

I bet there are some pretty interesting pictures that could be taken in the locker rooms!

 

[clarabelle]

Maybe it is policy. It is a Y.
Maybe I should ask.
It was a really hard class-lots of sprints and stuff -there was no way she could have been getting the full benefit. It made it harder for me to get in my "zone" with the murmuring noise the entire time.
Who knew cell phones would turn out like this?
Thanks everyone for your replies