Apparently I'm on a roll of poor choices, specifically concerning my after work exercise plans. Today I made the mother of all mistakes....I forgot my IPhone in the car. What does that mean? Well, it meant that as I got my clothes and shoes on and my contacts in and as I was looking for my headphones, it dawned on me that my phone was in the car. This then meant that I would be forced to watch (silent) TV while I did the elliptical. Now let me preface this by saying that I had JUST got done telling someone at school how much I hate the gym and the only way I make it through the hour is by watching TV on my phone. Right now I am totally absorbed in Glee (don't hate me or think badly of me).
So I tried to have a positive attitude and told myself that it was actually a good thing because then I would run on the treadmill instead since I didn't have to watch anything. I walk in the fitness room and of course all the treadmills are being used. Christ. Well, I guess I'll just do the elliptical anyway and watch the silent TV. Nope-all the ellipticals are taken too. You've got to be kidding. So I am then forced to go on an elliptical type thing where your arms don't have anything to do. Ok, ok. I'll make it. And then I look up at the silent TV. It is CNN and they are covering the latest round of republican caucuses. Good god, could this get any worse. Oh yes it can! I am about 15 minutes in and this guy walks over to the girl next to me and they launch into a 15 minute conversation on their respective careers and living situations as they must have gone to UMD together and then left and now are apparently both back in Duluth (thank god) with jobs in the areas they graduated in. Happy days! This girl was LOUD so I got to hear everything, including her political beliefs, "I am going to get Obama elected this year" and "I really respect the shit out of Ron Paul....I mean he has real integrity". Well, at least she wasn't republican.
As I'm trying to ignore her, well I couldn't so I was still listening but also reading the closed captioning on the silent TV, I see candidate Santorum at this church and am reading about how he is for religious freedom. This seems slightly ironic....or maybe an oxymoron? How can a man who thinks Christians created equality and who seems to have a major problem with Islam - not to mention the problems he has with other social issues like homosexuality and abortion- claim to support freedom of religion? This puzzled me for most of the night so I did a little research and basically what he is saying is that Christians should have freedom to practice their religion and screw all the rest of you. Those are my words, not his. Thankfully my timer beeped at 30 minutes and I got out of there as quickly as I could. I was certainly not staying for an hour in those circumstances.
Anyway, the moral of the story is don't EVER forget your phone when going to the gym and if you do, don't be a hero and try to muddle through....get the hell out of there and try again another day.
If you didn't have a phone in the first place this would not have been a problem.... just saying. :D
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