Sunday, January 23, 2011

The man on the treadmill

So I'm at the gym, running on the treadmill, I'm going pretty fast, and blasting my music, so I'm not really aware of what's going on around me, but I see out of the corner of my eye that there is someone walking on to the treadmill next to me. This kind of irritates me, because there are plenty of treadmills empty, and he had to chose the one right next to me. I brush away my irritation and focus again, but over my music I can hear the obnoxious sound of the treadmill inclining. I still don't fully look at the man next to me, but I can see that he is wearing big blocky tennis shoes (I'm talking eighties tennis shoes) and has very hairy legs. I run a few minutes more when I hear a loud crinkling sound, and I look over at the man, and it's Richard Simmons eating trail mix. I mean this guy seriously looked like Richard Simmons. He was short and thick, he was wearing shorts too short for a man, especially for his age, and a tight under-armor shirt that his belly stuck out of just the slightest bit, and on top of his head was a curly brown afro. What really made him look like Richard Simmons is that he had a huge smile on his face as he was power walking.

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