What you just said above is 100% spot on with me as well, from pushing weight (my days are pushing weight are long gone, I'll make anything light feel heavy, I get a better pump, contraction and work out this way anyhow).. getting the opportunity to hit the Smith machine is far and few in between, on the days that I would like to, it's the first thing I look at when I walk in the door and if it's open I immediately set up shop and park my ass right in it. Thursday nights and Sunday nights are the only time it's literally wide open so I structure my routine around those days.. :/
We don't have much with people hanging their clothing around, but for a little while we had a young group of kids that would have a pile of "Crocs" and they were running around in their socks working out. That didn't last too long, and it's one of the few times I've ever complained and they were actually told, all of them, to show up at a different time. That's what we get when we have a gym down the road from a high school and that's what walks in the door when it's between the ending and the beginning of particular sports seasons.. SMH.. these kids are hanging all over the equipment like monkeys, large circle talks and squatting in stations.