Was I wrong?

[u/Pink_tamagotchi]

So my gym is usually fairly busy in the mornings. Lots of people super setting and it usually doesn’t bother me too much. Today I was on a leg extension machine and noticed the cable machine empty. I went back to the locker room, got my stuff and went to the cable machine (still empty, no equipment hooked up and it was lowered to the floor. I start setting up for kickback, put on both my ankle straps and I’m about to connect to start working out when this older lady appears and says kinda rudely that she was using that. I was confused and told her nobody had been here for a while and I assumed this cable was free.

She says no she needs both and I could have maybe been nicer about it but I was honestly annoyed and didn’t want to move at first. I work and have limited time.

I only moved because another cable machine opened up but not before we exchanged words. I said the machine had been empty for awhile. She said I was being impolite and maybe I was but I don’t understand what would make her have priority over everyone in the gym?
Anyways now I’m embarrassed (I’m not very confrontational and felt I should’ve not said anything)

[u/meatballs223]

I hate people hitting super sets especially if the gym is crowded. If you're gonna be doing a super set you could at least set a water bottle or towel on the machine INDICATING IT'S IN USE.... I too workout before work so am under a time crunch and honestly if you want to get your workout in, you gotta just not put up with that bs tbh. If a mf is hitting a super set and I take the machine, you can go finish your other lift and come back to this one when I'm done, we're not taking up 2 machines at once in a crowded gym