Ok, so this happened last week at the gym and I felt like I had to go into strength training class today armed with a plan.  And my plan was beat them at their own game.  This meant that I had to be more cliquey and popular than the front rowers.  How did I do this?  Well, if you look at the photo above, you’ll see that I wore my Varsity Cheerleader t-shirt from 1998.  (You’ll also see that I didn’t brush my hair, but that’s beside the point.)

I figured that if they’re not intimidated by a varsity cheerleader, then that means that they were popular in both high school and now in real life.  And let’s face facts here, with people like that, there’s absolutely no point in creating any type of self-defense strategy.  They’re beyond reason and logic.  Mere high school cool OR real world cool folks can’t begin to get inside the minds of these perennially cool people to anticipate their actions or reactions.  They’re a little understood, but much feared group…like martians or Hezbollah.

Anyway, it seems that I wasn’t dealing with that kind of crowd at all and the shirt worked.  I stood in the middle-ish part of class today and was totally left alone.  Sweet success!