"Poll question: You're in the bathroom, you hear someone else violently throwing up." Mon Jan-07-19 10:17 AM by shygurl
Last night I'm at the gym changing from my work clothes into my workout clothes, and I hear somebody a few stalls over throwing up for a good 5 or 6 minutes. As I was dressing, I debated to go and ask if they needed help once I was completely dressed, but by the time I was leaving the stall they had already left.
I know if it was me, I would have wanted to be left the fuck alone, but the way I want to interact with people I don't know is probably not a good standard to go by. I'm pondering what should have been the right move.
3. "Also; as I general rule, I don't converse with strangers in gym locker r..." In response to Reply # 0
too many weirdos.
unless I see a pool of blood, I ain't saying shit or checking on the well being of anyone inside of a closed stall. I MIGHT go tell the front desk somebody is going through something in the bathroom...but other than that..hard pass.
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79554 posts
Mon Jan-07-19 01:00 PM
15. "This place hates interacting with people" In response to Reply # 14
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79554 posts
Mon Jan-07-19 02:32 PM
17. "Yup. At first I was like wtf when I got here" In response to Reply # 16
before realizing a lot of folks just don’t like people
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
22. "RE: Remember this place skews anti-social and introverted. " In response to Reply # 5
Ehhh. It’s not that simple, tho. LOL. I admit to being introverted and anti-social but I’m the type of person to ask people if they’re good. I’d love to hand folks wipes, tissues, plastic bags, pain killer or whatever they need, if I have it.
-- "Music is not to be possessed; it's to be shared.” - James Mtume
"Just stay loose, keep it raw, and bang ya drums out sometimes." - Madlib
I was at my boy’s wedding reception. It’s after dinner, after the first dance and the DJ is warming things up, trying to get people on the floor. There’s certainly been a bit of drinking but like I said, it’s very early in the reception.
I hit the restroom and I hear a dude throwing up in the stall. Dude sounded like he was in bad shape. I didn’t ask who it was but I did say, “Hey man, are you alright?’
He replied, “Yeah, I’ll be fine.”
I shrugged and KIM.
As I stepped out of the restroom, this chick I know (but don’t particularly care for) asks me if Joe is in the restroom. I told her I don’t know who Joe is. She said he’s her date to the wedding (that still doesn’t help me).
I tell her to hold on for a second. I go back in and ask the puking dude if he’s Joe. He mumbles that he is.
So I tell her that he’s in there and he’s puking. I told her I asked if he needed help & he said, “No.”
She said she would handle it & I didn’t stick around to see how that happened. But Joe was the talk of the wedding by the end of the night.
23. "RE: I'd get out of the bathroom as quickly as possible" In response to Reply # 18
This, but after asking if they need help first. I wouldn’t try to stick around. I am overcoming a fear of vomit after breaking a 15+ year streak of not vomiting last year. I think I got food poisoning from the Whole Foods salad and hot food bar.
-- "Music is not to be possessed; it's to be shared.” - James Mtume
"Just stay loose, keep it raw, and bang ya drums out sometimes." - Madlib
27. "This post just made me realize that one time I passed out at the gym" In response to Reply # 0
and no one asked me anything or tried to help. I managed to get to a chair in the locker room and passed out in it for about a half hour (I was blind at this point - it was like someone was shining flashlights into my eyes. I did a full body workout, plus 40 minutes on the treadmill, to make up for having missed the gym all that week - all on a completely empty stomach. I think I was there for maybe 3.5 hours doing all that).
Because I'm an anti-social introvert I never thought anything of that aspect of it, until reading this. My big takeaway had always been just not to work out so hard, especially on an empty stomach.
28. "Man, that is really messed-up. Something could have been wrong." In response to Reply # 27
Years ago I was in the gym getting it in listening to music. The same gym employee kept walking back and forth past me as if they were looking for something. Finish my set, look over and there's a guy laid out on the floor at the foot of a treadmill. Shit, so that's what that was about. By this point several minutes had passed before I got up, took off the headphones and saw what was going on. I run over to him, take his pulse and feel for breathing... nothing. Lifeguard shows up from downstairs right after, starts CPR (was like 5 minutes by this point, according to people that saw everything). I wish I'd have been there to see everything form the beginning. Not sure what happened, but it didn't look good (still wasn't breathing when EMS got there). Still haunts me, and makes me take that extra second to ask people if they need any help.
Gonna have to change my answer above to "ask if they need help", your reply put things into perspective for me.
29. "I started feeling weird during my final set of crunches, which " In response to Reply # 28
was going to be the very last thing I did before leaving. I cut them short and stood up and my legs felt like wet noodles. Then my vision started getting blurry. My big fear was falling and hitting my head on some bar or plate. I started to move towards the locker room and bumped into a guy because I couldn't see anything. I was surprised that he didn't get mad. I had to feel along the walls to get to the water fountain, which was next to the locker room door. I just now did some Googling and I'm guessing I was going blind because the blood wasn't flowing to my eyes. Had no idea until 10 minutes ago (this happened in 2003 or 2004).
30. "To be supportive, I'd throw up too" In response to Reply # 0
Sometimes, it's okay to feel sick.
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32. "So if someone is having an emergency you want them to knock or ask you?" In response to Reply # 31
That person could be so shook with what's going on with them that they're not thinking about that.
That's like saying someone choking at a restaurant should write "help me" on a napkin lol.
Normally if you see or hear someone in distress you ask if they're ok, they'll give you some type of sign that they need help or they'll let you know its ok.
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33. "Maybe I read this wrong" In response to Reply # 31
Looking at it again I assume that you mean you’d say that to them and tell them to knock if they need help. In that case then good, that’s enough for someone to have done their part in asking.
I assumed that you mean you’d wait to hear the person banging on the door first before you said anything lol.
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