One of the perks of being at my current job is that I have a free membership to a very nice gym. When I lived in San Diego, the “gym” was usually the exercise center at an apartment complex or those that were on site at Qualcomm. I never had something to complain about (or perhaps it was the fact that I didn’t have a blog to do so).
There are a couple of digital scales in the men’s locker room at the gym which display your weight to within a tenth of a pound. Due to their location, a lot of members use them before entering or exiting the showers. Okay, that’s fine. However, I chuckle to myself every time I see someone deliberately take off their towel, drop it on the floor, and step onto the scale in their birthday suit.
Now, I know most men are more comfortable with their body image than I am, but do you really need to be showing your junk just to achieve an extra 0.1 lb of accuracy? Honestly, people, how much does that piece of cotton weigh? I’m almost tempted to put a sign up in front of the scales:
The towel you have dropped by your side weighs 0.1 lbs (dry) and 0.2 lbs (post-shower). As most of you are Microsoft engineers, you are more than capable of performing the subtraction in your head. Please keep the towel on, and thank you for sparing us the genitalia show.
Of course, it goes without saying that I don’t mind the towel-shedding in the women’s locker room…
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Can I hang out in your locker room? I’d like to check out the “scenery.”
Um.. I see nothing wrong with baring genitalia… As a matter of fact, I welcome it. And I second Susan’s sentiment… Can I hang out in your locker room too?
You can hang out in the locker room if you tag along to the gym with me; I’ll pay for your guest pass. However, shouldn’t the purpose of the gym be to work out and not look at that stuff in the locker room?
and how do you manage to witness the towel-shedding in the women’s locker room? sounds like a breach of security to me
I have no idea what goes on in the female locker room; I’m just of the belief that the female body has much more elegance than a male’s body. Watch me in cat-cow pose, and I’m sure you’ll agree.