Dear Eric: I am a recently retired woman who is appreciating my morning routine at the gym. I love the group exercise classes. My issue is with one woman who insists on counting very loudly with the instructor, slipping in loud singing with the music and thinking she is entertaining during class.
She does it during every class twice a week. The first few months of classes I let it slide. I finally, diplomatically, took her aside and told her that her loud counting and singing is very distracting to some of us taking the class.
I told her she doesn’t have to stop but just be considerate of the volume she uses because some of us find it distracting, especially during our balancing exercises. She couldn’t believe I would say that to her and told some of her friends in class…