by Karen Cleveland

Welcome to She Does the City Finishing School. As your resident etiquette advisor, I hope to make the city a nicer, more civilized place – one good gesture at a time.

Each week I’ll bear witness to an etiquette atrocity and offer my two cents on WTF was someone thinking – where were their manners? As my lovely Jamaican friend says, if someone doesn’t have any manners, they lack "brought-upsy".

This week’s crime against decorum? The gym jocks where I work out refuse to sanitize the equipment after they’ve perspired all over. As we all know, our bodies get rid of yucky stuff for a reason: sweat, pimples, snot, it’s really all the same (for solid [errr..liquid] proof of this, check out Jen’s review of the foot detox.

In short, it’s fine that you sweat at the gym. That’s what you’re there for. But no one wants to wants to use gym equipment covered in sweat any more than they want to use equipment covered in pee. Grab the sanitizing spray, spritz, wipe and repeat. If you notice a reoccurring offender at your gym, use your own manners as your best defence. Bring them the bottle of said sanitizer and hand it to them with a smile.

Hygiene first and foremost, but it’s cold and flu season for Pete’s sake people. Sheesh.