Every week someone asks me about my leg.
After two months of walking with crutches, the muscles got very week.
But I’m in the gym three days a week, it’s getting stronger, and sometimes I can even hear…
A Good Expression
I was about to sit down at the leg press machine when a young man who had just been using the machine told me to wait.
He got a few paper towels and a spray bottle, walked over to the machine and sprayed and wiped everything he had touched.
I told him that wasn’t necessary and he replied:
“It’s a common courtesy.”
“What good English they speak here!” was my first thought.
(a common courtesy is a nice, polite thing to do for someone you don’t know; for example, flushing the toilet in a public bathroom is a common courtesy)
Then my second thought was, “No, it’s not.”
First of all, there was no sweat on the machine and therefore nothing to clean.
Second of all, if we sprayed and wiped everything we touch we’d need to wake up an hour earlier to have enough time for all that spraying and wiping.
What do you think?
Common courtesy?
Crazy?
Something else?
percularity of modern society 🙁
No, this is a habit from the last two years when we had epidemic situation with covid 19 and was necesary to desinfect equipment in a public place …like a gym,
And we still have it ..
In my opinion it was too much common courtesy. I would do the same but only with the equipment I used. Mayby the young men either wanted to use good experession either he had habits after Covid.
I think that it should be a normal common courtesy. It is nice that people in Estonia obey such rules, it should be obligatory everywhere.
I go to gym from a long time and we always have the same habit to dry all the machine that you have used after having finished your session
The common courtesy at the gim is a good habit!!! Well done for the man on the gym!
Even though I have no experience with gym machines, I like when others are treated with care. I think corona even is not the most important argument here.
This is more than just common courtesy. It is good hygienic and healthy habits. Very important one. Nice to know people practice it.
Hi,
I think he only intended to disinfect the machine
“It’s a common courtesy”, and to me, it’s correct, but without too much exaggeration. This decision is personnal and this, keep people in a ggod atmosphere.
Hmmm, let´s do what it takes. Don´t throw the baby out with the bathwater or otherwise too much of everything is harmful. Have a great day.
We are used to clean everything we touch after the pandemic covid-19.
HI ! Mr.Vig
It’s normal ! In my opinion it’s about gesture of politeness in a gym.
Its good habit and covid is not most important reason, we did it already before covid.
I think it’s absurd if there’s no sweat on the machine. Your skin protects you from harmful microbes, not chemicals in a bottle.
Hello Mr.Vig.
Maybe you ‘ve been traveling and seeing lots of different people with different customs.
That ‘s why you are such a practical person. And americans are well-known for their pragmatism and their straight point of view.
I think that common courtesy is necessary in our crazy world. But too much pedantry is tiresome in the long run. What is needed is balance and common sense.
I think the fascination with different types of disinfection is overblown.