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I Was Kicked Out of a Gym for ‘Staring’ at a Woman — Even Though I’m Blind
New York Post ^ | June 19, 2023 | Emily Lefroy

Posted on 06/19/2023 3:15:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Toby Addison, 21, recalled the mortifying moment years prior when he was kicked out of the gym for “creepily” staring at a woman — despite the fact he cannot see — while on the “Happy Hour Podcast” earlier in June.

Addison, who shares his life as a blind person on his TikTok account, @blindtobes, said he was “minding his own business” during a workout when he heard a woman say: “Oh, do you like the view?”

“Obviously I don’t really know where I’m looking a lot of the time,” the content creator shared on the podcast. “I was just staring right ahead and unfortunately there was a woman doing some exercises.” The psychology and counseling student was shocked when he realized she had come over to talk to him, adding that he obviously didn’t know what kind of exercises she was doing. Addison, who had his cane folded up nearby, said he immediately told her he was blind — but she “wasn’t having any of it.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: blind; donateforjim; gyms; karen; metoo
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To: nickcarraway

Two young novices at the convent had to do penance for bad behavior, and the Mother Superior said, “Go and paint the last room down the corridor-ceiling, walls, and woodwork, and if there is a single spot of paint on your vestments when you’re done, it will be the end of you at this convent!”
The girls went to do as they were told, and decided the best thing was to lock the door, strip down, and put their vestments safely under the drop cloths till they were done.
When they were nearly finished, there was a knock at the door: “Blind man, could you let me in, please?”
“What are we going to do? We’re stark naked!”
“Let him in and act nonchalant. He’s blind, he’ll never know”.
And so they let him in.
“Oh, excuse me, I didn’t realize it was Casual Friday. Where do you want me to put the blinds?”


41 posted on 06/19/2023 5:20:30 PM PDT by _longranger81
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To: nickcarraway

I put you in tomorrow’s news, with attribution. Good one.


42 posted on 06/19/2023 5:29:28 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: SauronOfMordor

Was in college when SNL started.

Saturday night parties would come to halt and TVs would turn on when SNL came on!

Fun times!


43 posted on 06/19/2023 5:36:32 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: nickcarraway

He should have sued her and the gym for this blatant bigoted violation 9f the americans with disabilities act and demanded federal criminal prosecution for both too


44 posted on 06/19/2023 6:15:41 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: JonPreston

Reminds me of a logic class in college. Where a man had to enter a lady’s shower to tend to an injured woman.
So he yells to the women to close their eyes as he walks through.


45 posted on 06/19/2023 6:22:48 PM PDT by midwest_hiker
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To: Phoenix8

“EXCUSE me what the hell are YOU looking at?”.

I mumbled something like “oh nothing”
= = =

Oh, excuse me, I was thinking how I have to get my dog spayed.


46 posted on 06/19/2023 6:31:44 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: nickcarraway

The erection gave him away?


47 posted on 06/19/2023 6:34:22 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: nickcarraway

Women who go to the gym and set up a camera to catch men ogling them, so they can do an outraged rant, is a TikTok kind of challenge. And very quickly men have learned to ignore such women, and the women are upset at being invisible.

They do not get “views”, “upvotes”, and “likes” when they are ignored. In turn, the men don’t look at them, don’t speak to them, and don’t volunteer to ‘spot’ them when they lift weights. And this makes them madder and madder.

And it’s not just the ugly guys ignoring them, the handsome guys who they wouldn’t mind interacting with also ignore them.


48 posted on 06/19/2023 7:57:49 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: Phoenix8
One of the few, very few, things I think Islam got right.

It wasn't just Islam. The Christian world used to have standards, too, we just didn't stone violators to death (usually). It is only in the last century, as the West has rejected Christianity, that women have started to dress like whores (and men like slobs).
49 posted on 06/19/2023 9:05:00 PM PDT by fr_freak (Such a foul sky clears not without a storm.)
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To: fr_freak

Thats true. My grandmother …great lived to be in her 90s. I only clearly remember her once as a young adult. She always wore ankle length dresses and a Bonnet outside.

She also wouldn’t look men in the eyes when she talked to them. (Part of that I’ve heard my great grandfather was abusive to her—some family say not so much but they are a minority. He died around 1980 and she did in the mid-90s).


50 posted on 06/20/2023 2:48:41 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Seruzawa

I’m a chick who’s had PT twice.

On busy days, because some of the equipment was close together, I could understand why people of both sexes would find it hard to find somewhere to look, other than the ceiling, that wouldn’t offend someone.

How I handled it: wore loose clothing and paid attention to what I was doing.

I hope the blind gentleman sues the crap out of that gym.


51 posted on 06/20/2023 3:12:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: mewzilla

BTW, Mr. Addison, if women can sue for an event that took place years in the past, so can guys.

Have at it.


52 posted on 06/20/2023 3:14:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
I make it a point to ruin people's videos. If they are filming themselves for form, fine. No problem there. If they are an "influencer" or doing a video for their "followers" I walk in front of the camera a few times when getting or putting weights away.

I'm probably in a few YouTube influencer videos as "guy in the background vigorously scratching his ass."

53 posted on 06/20/2023 6:17:28 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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