Overzealous Exercising Guy/ Brita

My gym is full of wack jobs. I don't know if it's Bethesda or what; Crunch in SF was kind of snobby but not filled with so many weird sights: the 5'3" man with 4'2" lats, or the skinny girl on the Stairmaster who obviously can't tell her fake tan is traffic-cone orange. My favorite this week has to be overzealous exercising guy. I first encountered him on the pull-up assist machine, where he was knocking out a lot of pull-ups in an exuberant fashion. As I worked in, I noticed I had to adjust the assist a lot because he had counterbalanced the machine with almost my entire body weight. Now, this guy has to be about 6 foot but not by any means heavy or muscular, so he couldn't have been more than two bucks. I don't think he understood the point of the assist feature; it's to enable weaklings like me to do a few pull-ups, since I can't do any on my own. Not to allow some gaylord to bounce up and down all day on a machine.

Anyway, after lifting I moved upstairs to the ellipticals, and after about 10 minutes I was again joined by OEG. He was pumping him arms back and forth and breathing loudly through his mouth, his lips pursed into an O. He was too young for emphysema, so I think it was just his way of being hardcore. Maybe "Eye of the Tiger" was playing on his iPod or something. I'm baffled by the whole situation.

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So now my roomie's boyfriend has moved in, which is great because he brought his Brita filter/pitcher. Why do all guys buy a Brita filter/pitcher at some point in college or in their 20's? I don't know any girlfriends who have one. Zero. Aren't girls supposed to be the neat freaks? And if guys are so concerned with the cleanliness of their drinking water, why are they oblivious to the unsanitary conditions of their bathrooms? I know I'm making broad, sweeping generalizations here, but really, what is it with the Brita? Seriously.