My caption “I'm trying to to stop doomscrolling, would you mind switching it to the moon?” A million obvious jokes about gym etiquette, form critique, and sexual harassment immediately came to mind. After rejecting those, I started thinking about why the man might be there. What led to this situation? Assuming this is just part of the normal gym-going experience, why might the woman be annoyed with him? One common annoyance in shared public spaces is the presence of TVs. I've often wished I was the kind of person willing to obtain and use a TV-B-Gone so I could bring a little peace to restaurants and waiting rooms with blaring televisions. I've never really been to a gym (physical exertion for its own sake makes me depressed) but I imagine it might also be the kind of place that has TVs on the wall. Public TVs are often tuned to the news, that having been judged the least offensive and most universally tolerable programming. This seems like it'd be especially annoying in a gym, where…
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