Curls in the Squat Rack

Check out this Curls in the Squat Rack with a Happy Ending story by a redditor.

At the gym today, and I had been waiting for the guy in the squat rack to finish up so I could do my set. I’m grabbing some water real quick, and notice that when I come back, a group of guys has hopped into the Squat rack, and are starting into curl sets.

Now, a bit of context: This is on a Marine base, in an Enlisted gym, so people here generally know how to not be assholes, and how to properly use the equipment. I was kind of in disbelief of what I was seeing, as curling in the squat rack was (up to this point) something I’ve only read about on here.

I reach down to pause my music so I can go ask them how many sets they’re doing. No point in causing some bro-drama, I’ll just wait my turn. Before I can take half a step over there, I see an incredible sight: The biggest marine we’ve got in our gym is full on SPRINTING over to the rack, veins popping out of his forehead and neck (not an abnormal sight for Staff NCO’s, I suppose…) wearing a shirt that indicates he’s a Staff Sergeant (kinda highish for the enlisted chain).

He then proceeds to scream and chew ass like it’s bubblegum, and demands that all of them get the hell out of his gym and not come back until they’ve written him a paper on the proper use of every single weight machine and rack in the gym. Then, as if nothing has happened, he walks back to his bench and goes back into a set.

Later at the water fountain I found out he’s corrected them in the past, and they gave him lip. Guess he’d had enough.

So there is hope after all. Now where can you hire that staff sergeant?