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The entire room is in motion as young men and women move among the Nautilus weight machines on their “circuits”—routines that structure the use of the machines in particular orders. Not one of the two dozen exercise bicycles that line one of the room’s long walls sits idle. Several large, square padded mats cover a relatively quiet part of the room surrounded by floor-length mirrors and an exercise bar at waist level. A dozen or more men and women sit stretching on the mats. Near a Nautilus machine stand two young men in T-shirts and loose-fitting shorts chiding one another about whether either of them will get the nerve to strike up a conversation with a woman in a two-piece orange spandex leotard who is stretching on the mats.
73 Peggy Wireman provides a general sense of what we mean by an anchored personal relationship: “[These] relationships . . have the dimension of warmth, rapport, and intimacy normally connected with primary relationships yet occur within a secondary setting and have some aspects of secondary relationships. The dimensions are: intense involvement, warmth, intimacy, sense of belonging, and rapport; mutual knowledge of character; involvement of the individual rather than the family; a commitment that is limited in time and scope .
Another aspect of avoidance involves the use of timing, discussed in an earlier section, as a preventive strategy for either normative or deviant face time. ” Under these conditions, one is less likely to face time 37 find anyone using the workout room for face time of any kind. One woman commented: “It’s really peaceful during off-peak. ” Such interactions require the most dramatic departure from the dynamics of public sociality and can transform an uneventful navigation through a quasi-public place into an altercation.