Warning: In the mood to ramble.
I did 45 minutes, Interval program, level 5, on the Arc Trainer. Unfortunately Jill had a day where she really overdid it on the perfume, so she was on an elliptical behind me, and I kept getting wafts of perfume. What could be worse. Then the woman on the treadmill in front of me was on a long, loud cell phone conversation with her boyfriend. I spent the 45 minutes fantasizing about confronting both of them. Then I'd think about why it wasn't a good idea. For Jill, I thought, would I want our only real interaction to be me criticizing her when I think she's amazing? And if I confronted the woman on the cell phone, then what if -even though it's never happened before and I don't have the desire- I suddenly had a day where I wanted to have an extremely loud cell phone conversation myself, to throw back my head in annoying laughter and be oblivious to everyone around me while I pounded along on the treadmill, increasing my danger of falling by holding a phone? Well, say I did want to do that, and then, say, she happened to be there that day. She could march over to me, and say, "Well, now, isn't this the pot calling the kettle black. You yelled at me, and now you're doing it!" Did I want to take away this future option at the gym of getting to have my own uninterrupted, never ending phone conversation? Better to keep one's options open, I decided. And then I thought about Jill again, and how I do annoying things too, like carry my "terrorist" bag onto the gym floor (remember a woman confronted me about that). I thought to myself, "Keep quiet. Go with the flow. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." All of this ongoing annoyance and philosophizing passed the time. Then I did 15 minutes of yoga where I blissfully thought about nothing.
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