Look lady you are standing in my oxygen

[underpants]

SO I hit the gym this morning for a basketball workout and 10 minutes on the brutal Stairmaster climber thing.

As I finish and am walking out of the main workout room this lady looks at me. I don't think anything of it and keep going. See now all I am focused on right now is

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Oxygen in more oxygen need more oxygen.

Sweating like a Carmen Electra dream.

I sense something and look up and the same lady is standing there talking to me. I still have my iPod earpieces in mind you (Chili Peppers "Song that made us what we are") and she is just yaking away.

I do what I do with my daughter "Uh huh" "Yeah" finally I realize that she really thinks we are having a conversation

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My lungs are trying to crawl out of my throat so they can slap me across the face for getting on that unholy machine

Finally I pull out one earpiece. I WANT to say "Look lady you are standing in my oxygen" but instead I am nice "Huh?" I say

"you might need to suit up for them next year"

:shrug:

Me, "WHO?"

Her, "The Whos"
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WHAT? I am thinking am I in an Abbott and Costello routine?

"Who?"

"The Hoos" and she points at my chest

Dumbfounded I look down. I have on a UVa tshirt. When you are getting dressed as quietly as possible at 4:30 AM you really don't pay a lot of attention to what shirt you have on at least I don't

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She proceeds to have a long conversation about the pight of the UVa football program. I am not sure that my presence was really needed.


My morning at the gym ended when I went in to the locker room to change and sat up from uptying my shoes to be almost "head to head" with part of a fellow member who was WAY TOO comfortable just after his shower.


but hey going to the gym is good for me, right?

[meegbear]

1. At least you have oxygen ...

I have women coming to my gym starting around 4:30 in the morning wearing, I swear, about a half gallon of perfume.

Yeah, we all wanna look and feel our best in social situations, but when my oxygen intake is crossed with "Floral Breeze", it's hard to keep going, weights or cardio.

[Chan790]

2. The ancient Greeks got gym right:

everybody showed up nekkid.

The Greek root gymno (as in gymnosperm meaning "naked seed". Evergreens are gymnosperms. That's all I remember from HS Botany.) means naked.

Who's going to show up to a naked gym? Not me. Skinny, fit people who don't look nasty without clothes. The sort of people who know better than to wear perfume to do cardio.

[knitter4democracy]

3. I didn't know I was at the gym this morning.

;)

As a stay-at-home mom, it's hard sometimes not to ambush adults and talk with them. :blush: