What would you have done (if this happened at your boxing gym)?

I always go outside to get my rope skipping in to get a little sun. . .

I trust everybody at my gym not to steal, so I always just leave my gloves chilling on the table. . . But there was a new group of guys today who I had never met, nor seen there before. . .

When I get back in from skipping, I notice my gloves are not on the table, so I start looking around. I see them sitting next to the ring where all those guys were doing mitt work in. . . I notice there is also an identical pair to mine sitting near them.

I ask the guys which pair is theirs, because oen pair is mine, and they don't know what to say at first, until one says "uhh, uhh, these are mine because there a little bit different htan yours; yours have the grey thumb." (when clearly they both had grey thumbs). . . So I didnt say anything, and just said "aight cool thanks." and took my gloves, and went home.


I mean, I would have NO PROBLEM letting somebody use my gloves if htey just asked me first - especially some dude I've never met. Even though it's kind of grimey (and I don't know who would want to use my gloves cause htey stink like ****), I still am nice enough to let them. . Everybody knows I'm a nice guy there - always giving people rides home, letting them borrow my jump rope, perfect pushups, etc. Even buy some of the little kids gatorade and ****. . . But I kind of came off as a dick to them because I juts couldn't believe somebody would have the nerve to use a pair of gloves that wasn't theirs.

 

So it's not just me - it is rude as hell to do that, yes?

I'm still fairly new to the boxing gym scene (been there for about a year), but I even overheard one of the older guys who I look up to there say to a kid one time "nah, that ain't yours, don't touch that" (taking about somebody else's gloves).

I'm almost positice the ones they said were mine, because they had yellow lint stuck to the elastic (I have yellow handwraps). . .

I didn't want to make too big of a deal about it, but I don't know, just rubbed me wrong. . .

Like I said, if they would have asked? I'd have let htem use 'em all day - hell, prolly let them use them after I left, and just told them to leave 'em with coach when they were finished.

 

Lol wut? How did I get punked? because I didn't start a fight over it?

I stopped trying to get in fights when I was 15. . .

 

You know what, I think they might have thought this. . . Although my gloves are clearly better than the shitty stock gloves my gym has. . .

They are the everlast protex (bag gloves), and my sparring gloves are Clitoris's.