Um, no I don't need help, thanks!

spyrosmom

spyrosmom

Cathlete
I was at Play it Again Sports on Sat and I bought a 30lbs db, to see if I can make the jump from 25 to 30 on 1 arm rows. So, the cashier guy cleary sees me carry the thing from the stack the to register. He rings me up, and then another employee (male) comes over and says "Do you need help to your car with that?" I just told him, "No, I wouldn't buy it if I couldn't use it" He looked dumbfounded. Now had he been extra cute, I MAY have let him schlep it to the car for me:) :) .

Also they keep the big, "manly" wieghts on the wall with all the wieght lifting stuff, and the little cute colored "girly" weights on the other wall with all the other fitness/aerobic/as seen on tv stuff. What's up with that??

Nan
 
I had the *same* thing happen to me at Dick's last year! I bought the 40#'ers and said almost the same thing to the clerk! I wouldn't buy it if I couldn't lift it! }( Have fun w/ your new weights!
 
Don't get offended by stuff like that. Enjoy it & let them work. I go through the same thing every time I buy a 50 lb bag of dogfood. The skinny HS kid behind the desk insists on carrying it to my car for me, even though for me it's like a warmup exercise & for him it could possibly induce a hernia. Whatever. I'm not gonna argue w/him, I just let him do it.
 
Yeah I was going to say when I go grocery shopping they ALWAYS ask if I need help even though I'm pushing a cart and most of the time it's only half full. I think they are either just being curtious or are told to say that at that store.
Also with a big weight I bet it IS rare they see a woman want something more than the 5-10# weights. And would just offer help in case. Actually even if I can carry the 30# weight I might let them help me to the car anyway. lol. If not just say no thanks with a smile ;)
 
How funny! I had the exact same experience when I bought my 25-pound DB last year. The funny thing was that one of my old students rang me up -- and I had to tell him that I was just fine carrying it out to my car! ;-)
 
They probably think that when a girl comes in and purchases a heavy weight that she is buying it for a man and let's face it. That is probably exactly the case MOST of the time so the girls probably DO need the help! I am sure girls such as us are a rare breed....
 
Wendy - that is exactly what I was thinking.

Now when I bought my 20# ers it was a bit if a problem trying to figure out how to hold one in each hand and then open the car door and put them in!:p

After all, I didn't want to put them down in the parking lot and scratch my new babies!
 
I can understand as you are definitely the exception. I get funny looks at the gym for lifting the weights I do because most of the women they see in the weight area (which is very few) are playing with the 5 pounders (which is cool--one has to start somewhere). And swallow your dang pride and let the cutie carry the weights for you :p
 
This happened to me when I got my 25# dbs last year at Dicks- I was carrying them around throughout the store before I checked out and the guy then asked if I needed help taking them out to my car . Aaaaa nope ! LOL
 
My husband and I bought a pellet stove for heating our house next winter - to offset the cost of heating the house with electricity (major $$$ this past winter).

Anyway, my father-in-law also bought a pellet stove and went ahead and bought FOUR TONS of wood pellets. Wood pellets are compressed wood shavings and looks like rabbit feed. It comes in 40 pound bags.

So he brings a freakin' TWO TONS of this stuff - that's 100 BAGS, kids - over to our house and plans on putting it in our garage. So because the old man is 72, I say, "Let me help you with this. It's really hot out and two can get the work done faster than one." Also, I don't need the old guy keeling over on MY watch, but I didn't tell him that, heehee.

His response? "Naw, you don't need to be lifting anything like this."

Boy-yoy-yoy-yoy-yoing! If I could've mentally rolled my eyes any further, I could've look out my a$$hole. I said, "Dear FIL, I lift this kind of weight all the time when I exercise. This is WHY I exercise - so I can do this kind of stuff."

Again, the old man disagreed. "No, you shouldn't be doing work like this."

"Well," I thought to myself, walking back to the house, "I'll just go back inside and finish the dusting and folding the towels. Just be sure not to die of heat exhaustion while I'm in the house and can't hear your cries for help, ya old fart."

Wow, what a product of his generation. Although, of course, I *am* grateful he's looking out for us by getting us the pellets at a good price.

MY dad would've been like, "Go get your gloves, this stuff is dirty!"

:)

Susan L.G.
 
DH and I bought a big rug at Home Depot a couple of months ago, along with some other stuff. An employee helped us push the multiple carts out to the car. I picked up the rug to put it in the car, and the Home Depot guy starts to insist that he help me. DH says, "Nah, she's fine. She's tough." Eventually the guy let go and I did it myself. But I got a chuckle out of the whole thing, and so did DH.
 
That's TOO funny! He comes from that generation that told women if they exercised too hard they'd not be able to have children - that sort of thing.

I went through 4 years in the Army as an MP and did tons of physical training as well as strenuous tasks and my father was appalled that I would come out with work gloves on to help him stack wood! I said "Dad, I do more than this on a daily basis!"

He was not convinced!
 
>Yeah I was going to say when I go grocery shopping they
>ALWAYS ask if I need help even though I'm pushing a cart and
>most of the time it's only half full.

I think it's funny when I've carried my groceries up to the cahier in a basket (so I can obviously lift it!) and the bagger then asks me if I want a cart to take my bags out to the car (I assume a lot of people use the carts---then a fair number of them are too frickin' lazy or inconsiderate to take them to the cart corral and just leave them anywhere). Maybe it's just because they go from one basket to something like 4 bags (that always amazes me!) and it looks like a lot to carry?
 
>Yeah I was going to say when I go grocery shopping they
>ALWAYS ask if I need help even though I'm pushing a cart and
>most of the time it's only half full.

I think it's funny when I've carried my groceries up to the cahier in a basket (so I can obviously lift it!) and the bagger then asks me if I want a cart to take my bags out to the car (I assume a lot of people use the carts---then a fair number of them are too frickin' lazy or inconsiderate to take them to the cart corral and just leave them anywhere). Maybe it's just because they go from one basket to something like 4 bags (that always amazes me!) and it looks like a lot to carry?
 
>They probably think that when a girl comes in and purchases a
>heavy weight that she is buying it for a man and let's face
>it.

I suppose if one thinks of females as 'girls' and males as 'men' (of the same approximate age), one would think that the 'girls' would need help, but the 'men' would not. But WOMEN can do it on their own!;-)
 
Nan congratulations on the leap from 25 to 30lb weights. I made the switch about 2 months ago w/30 lbers. Every once in a blue moon, I might be able to do a few double...

anyway....I was Walmart getting 25lbs and the same thing happened to me. Nope I got it. I even had "boot" on my bunion foot.

Yep know how you feel!

I never noticed the difference with weight colors at PIAS. But I know one thing, I really don't care for Dickless Sports, unless I realllllly have to be there.

I hope someone opens a shop just for women called Jane's!!


Annette Bethel
 
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