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If you exercise regularly at a health club, how much do you love this story?  Tina Santoro Asmar had her gym membership to Planet Fitness revoked for talking too much on her cell phone.  She was on a treadmill chatting away when the manager asked her to leave the workout area because she was on her phone.  Tina says the manager was "enraged" and yelled at her in front of the other patrons violating their "no gymtimidation" philosophy.  The manager sees it differently:  "This is a member that's had repeated issues and incidents with cell phone use... her reaction was extremely unprofessional and rude and dismissive."  

The manager was upset after she kept stalling.  Tina says she would have left right away if her iPad weren't charging in the exercise equipment.  I think we're getting a pretty clear picture here.   

By the way -- there are 10, yes 10, signs around the gym telling members not to use their phones unless they are in designated areas.