Am I being an ahole?

[Anonymous]

I no longer like my physical therapy location because the workers are constantly chit chatting and I feel like I'm interrupting them when I have questions about the next exercise.

1. A few years ago, I had physical therapy for knee pain and it was me and the therapist working one-on-one. I liked that approach.

2. Now, I have a sports injury and my new therapist has several patients at once and a few interns rotating.

3. While I'm completing exercises, the interns chit chat and occasionally the PT joins the conversation. Everyone is friendly, however, I find it annoying that I can hear their conversations and I need to butt in to ask a question.

4. I started wearing one ear bud to ignore them which was helpful until one of them asked my opinion on whatever topic they were discussing. I had to tell them that I wasn't listen. Lol, which resulted in a bunch of dumbfounded faces.

[Oliverlogan263]

Ugh girl I feel you, that sounds so annoying! A few thoughts:

1) You're not being an a-hole at all. You paid for PT and need their full focus.

2) Group settings can work for some but it's definitely not as effective if they're distracted chatting.

3) Wearing the earbud was a smart move! If they keep interrupting your jams that's rude.

4) Maybe politely bring it up to the actual PT - say you prefer a more one-on-one approach since you have specific questions.

5) If they can't accommodate, ask about trying a diff location. Your recovery is important!

6) There's nothing wrong with wanting what will work best for you. Don't feel badly advocating for yourself.

You do what's best for your process, sis! No use paying to be an afterthought to their gossip sesh. You've got this!

[SweetJoyGirl]

So, you mean that you are the unpleasant one in the situation? 😊

[SweetJoyGirl]

You are not a bad person, but you don’t sound quite pleasant either.

[Abbycado]

When you have to ask if you’re an asshole, you probably are

[ProbablyClueless]

That doesn't sound like a-holish behavior?

[noohair]

You voted for the medical care you have.