For a short while, I worked from an exercise facility in Texas. And although I had, by that time, written and taught extensively on the subject of proper decorum and environment in a setting intended for ideal exercise instruction, I was surprised to find that I had failed to expose one important discrepancy.
On rare occasions, I had encountered and corrected this discrepancy in my own facility in Florida, but I’m fairly confident that, until now, I have not written about pop-pin management. If a reader can direct me to an instance where I have discussed this before, I will be grateful for the renewed memory.
Among the various discrepancies blatantly committed in the Texas facility, my ears were assaulted by the incessant release of pop-pins—those spring-loaded pins that engage the positioning tubes on exercise machines. The instructors seemed to relish releasing them as a proclamation to everyone within earshot (an interestingly appropriate word in this context) that they commanded the moment.
[This reminds me of my now-worn-out reference to the roughnecks I worked with in the oil patch who taught me as a worm (a trainee roughneck) that I should throw the derrick jaws around and make as much noise as possible to make the other roughnecks respect me for my competence. Hint: This doesn’t work as a surgery tech.]
Let it be known that careless, loud release of a pop-pin is rude, distracting, inconsiderate, and probably harmful to the ears of anyone in the vicinity.
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