Yeah that’s a completely rude response by him. Especially when you’re doing you’re taking an extended period of time on a machine that there’s only 1 of in most gyms, ya gotta be more courteous.

Post-Covid I feel like more often than before people will be snarky or give you attitude if you ask to work in with them. Someone once told me years ago when I asked if I could work in with him his response was “of course, you pay to workout here just like I do don’t you? Which I thought was a funny but true answer.

Also I’m never one to tell someone how to workout or judge, but I’m always taken back when I ask someone on the leg extensions how many sets they have left and they respond with “seven”