No Joiners Fee in January
This time of year at the YWCA always makes me weary. All the news years resolutions clog up the track, the elipticals, and the darn parking lot.
I mean I understand why... The weather is crappy, the winter seems interminable, and winter coziness can lead to "figure" challenges by this point in the season. However, what I don't understand is the shockingly horrible behavior people exhibit while trying to navigate the over-crowding. Here are some of my favorites, observed recently:
People drive around the parking lot as though they are fleeing from death, often nearly killing others in the process. Drivers will spend up to about 10 or 15 minutes in the parking lot circling around just to find a parking spot, instead of going across the street and walking less than 2 blocks to get to the front door. I mean, why walk when you are going somewhere to exercise, right?
Even though there is a 30 minute limit for all of the 'machines', people will sign up for three or four 15 minute slots in order to make sure that they can use exactly the time-slot that they want. Therefore elipticals end up sitting empty for part of the time with people like me (who can no longer get cardio-exercise by running or bouncing) gazing longingly at them since we didn't get to the Y three hours ago to sign up for them.
People fail to notice (or maybe care) that when they check in and then have eight other things they want the desk attendant to look up, they hold up a huge line so that people are waiting actual minutes in order to check in by swiping their cards.
Finally, when using a locker, the bench between the lockers, or navigating personal space, some Y members seem to have forgotten simple rules of politeness and modesty. People blatantly leave their crap all over the floor while getting dressed, requiring an increasingly large pregnant woman to straddle the bench or hop over in order to get a locker or to leave. They will often point their butt right at you and then do a full bend down. If you do not avert your eyes quickly enough, you are left in fear of... well, anyways.
I know that soon the winter rush will be over and that the insanity that has gripped people will have lessened. But for now, I often have to take a deep breath before entering the vicinity of a place I normally really like to go, ready for just another reminder that the sign that indicates "No Joiners Fee in January" is really my worst nightmare.
I mean I understand why... The weather is crappy, the winter seems interminable, and winter coziness can lead to "figure" challenges by this point in the season. However, what I don't understand is the shockingly horrible behavior people exhibit while trying to navigate the over-crowding. Here are some of my favorites, observed recently:
People drive around the parking lot as though they are fleeing from death, often nearly killing others in the process. Drivers will spend up to about 10 or 15 minutes in the parking lot circling around just to find a parking spot, instead of going across the street and walking less than 2 blocks to get to the front door. I mean, why walk when you are going somewhere to exercise, right?
Even though there is a 30 minute limit for all of the 'machines', people will sign up for three or four 15 minute slots in order to make sure that they can use exactly the time-slot that they want. Therefore elipticals end up sitting empty for part of the time with people like me (who can no longer get cardio-exercise by running or bouncing) gazing longingly at them since we didn't get to the Y three hours ago to sign up for them.
People fail to notice (or maybe care) that when they check in and then have eight other things they want the desk attendant to look up, they hold up a huge line so that people are waiting actual minutes in order to check in by swiping their cards.
Finally, when using a locker, the bench between the lockers, or navigating personal space, some Y members seem to have forgotten simple rules of politeness and modesty. People blatantly leave their crap all over the floor while getting dressed, requiring an increasingly large pregnant woman to straddle the bench or hop over in order to get a locker or to leave. They will often point their butt right at you and then do a full bend down. If you do not avert your eyes quickly enough, you are left in fear of... well, anyways.
I know that soon the winter rush will be over and that the insanity that has gripped people will have lessened. But for now, I often have to take a deep breath before entering the vicinity of a place I normally really like to go, ready for just another reminder that the sign that indicates "No Joiners Fee in January" is really my worst nightmare.
posted by KLOU | 2:44 PM
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