About 10 years ago, I had my Fortune 500 company’s CEO enter the office gym one day and jump right on the treadmill next to mine (I did not work in the CEO’s home office; he was out and about doing a regional office tour that week). And I had to stay because I was in the middle of a timed program, and had a visible countdown going on my treadmill, and it would have been more memorable for him and weird if I just noped out early.
Most awkward ten minutes of small talk I’ve ever had to make in my entire life.
About 10 years ago, I had my Fortune 500 company’s CEO enter the office gym one day and jump right on the treadmill next to mine (I did not work in the CEO’s home office; he was out and about doing a regional office tour that week). And I had to stay because I was in the middle of a timed program, and had a visible countdown going on my treadmill, and it would have been more memorable for him and weird if I just noped out early.
Most awkward ten minutes of small talk I’ve ever had to make in my entire life.
That’s why I always wear headphones in the gym. I devinetively don’t want to talk with some “strangers” in the gym.
I bet you wished you threw the treadmill at him! That’s what i woulda wished i could do.