A bully in my barre3 class?......

[Vintage VFer]

Originally Posted by Dabbadooey

Lol...not much of an update. I have not seen her. Two days I went to a different class, and today she was not in class. I do plan to discuss this with an instructor, and I will update.

Thanks for updating.

(Err, maybe it was a VFer and she read this thread...)

[little bird]

(Err, maybe it was a VFer and she read this thread...)



LOL! Good.

[alisoncooks]

Originally Posted by Vintage VFer

Thanks for updating.

(Err, maybe it was a VFer and she read this thread...)

LOL!

[monterey vidiot]

Dabbadooey, I'm glad to hear that you kept going to class and didn't let the bully ruin it for you.

[lingo10]

Originally Posted by Vintage VFer

Thanks for updating.

(Err, maybe it was a VFer and she read this thread...)

lol now that would be something!

[ncl]

i did think afterwards that perhaps there IS something wrong with this person that is bigger than just being a jerk and a bully (like a traumatic brain injury)...you never know.

[mtnmom]

Kind of a hijack, but keeping in the same vein about rude people...

We were traveling recently and there was this tiny old woman who blatantly cut in line at every opportunity. First when waiting in line for the ticketing agent to check our luggage. Then we were first in line for our section at the boarding gate, standing there for 15-20 minutes. And she just crept right in front of us - everyone saw it. I cheerily started chatting about, "Oh, we're second in line now? Hmm, here all this time I thought we were first in line. How did that happen?"

She starts in with this coughing spell. (where'e the rolling-eye smilie we used to have here?)

So then there was a bag checking table right before you boarded the plane and darn it if she didn't just mosey in front of everyone she could again! Finally a couple in front of us blocked her.

I guess she was banking on her "little old lady" status to keep anyone from stopping her. There were several of us rolling our eyes and shaking our heads behind her back.

I hope your barre bully backs off. Some people will try anything to get priority.

[SharonNYC]

Originally Posted by yogapam

Interesting as I have experienced the reverse of this (aka ageism), and I never treat younger women with anything but respect. I have a great rapport with my DIL and my younger son's SO. I am usually the oldest in the class and have felt more than once that some (not all) of the younger women look at me like they wonder what I am doing there and if I will be able to keep up. And I keep up quite well! So I don't think it's fair to judge all "older women" in that way.

Pam, I totally agree. I was the oldest in every single yoga class for the first 10 years or so I ventured beyond my own apartment. Most of the whipper snappers were nice, but some of them could be pretty dismissive. I've outlasted them!

There are definitely people who get attached to certain spots -- they make it their business to get to class early, or they lose the spot.