So i was running around today doing little chores, paying bills and i run across
this golds gym near close to my house..Actually i have two of these somewhat equidistant from each other, One features a straight shot with about 4 or 5 lights, the other has a couple of turns and features about 10 traffic lights.
Any way, i walk around, planning on checking out the basketball court and the cardio equipment. When i walk up to the front desk, of course i mention that i do not intend to ever sign a contract and that i am willing to pay the 10 bucks
a day for walk in visits. So the attendant gives me a form to fill out and he goes to some office to get some one!!!!
So i fill out the form and leave many spaces blank because i am familiar with the games this type of places play (ie no address no phone or email on the phone) and when i look up, this pretty babe is walking towards me with her hand held out. Of course i know what they are playing at here....The old massage his ego then when all the blood is drained from his brain, swilling around in his nether regions, flirt him into signing one of those famous bullshit
contracts... She starts out on the tour showing me the equipment in a casual way, asking me questions which i was answering evasively or with a joke!!!! Throwing their game plan off a little bit...Any way as we come close to the end of the tour, the conversation is now going back and forth between types of equipment and payment plans they feature. At this time i drop the hammer on her and tell, her that there is absolutely zero chance of her convincing me to sign a contract!. I guess she realized the determination in my voice and moved to convincing me to pay my daily payments upfront (prepaid contract sort of but not really a contract) She wants me to pay 400 bucks for 18 months...I just wanna play some ball every now and then, i sure as hell wont pay that. Of course i let her have it lightly that this is not a deal i was interested in. But she was a persistent little dynamo and started usher me into her office...Big no no!!!! I stepped back and said, i will think about her offer and let her know. and turned around to leave. She mumbled her good byes to my back and i could have sworn i detected great resignation in her voice when she said she will be waiting to see me back.
Anyway, here comes the evening and i am getting ready to hit dingy little gym on our property. Of course the little dark place stood no chance against the massive overly done Golds gym.
I finally decide to head straight back and do my work out for the day over there.
You can imagine the shock on the face of the pretty thing that was trying to sell me a contract. But she remained calm, even gave me a free work out for today and wished me well...
I gotta say, working out in a real gym is definately more beneficial than the privacy of your home gym...Sure it can be intimidating when you find all these gym rats mugging around 250 pounds of raw muscle but on a second look, you can tell who is on the "roids" and some dudes, out and out have nasty looking bodies, big ass chest, tiny winny legs, buff chest. and what look like hams for arms with zero definition, i counted one or two over weight guys and the fat chicks just couldnt stop coming into the gym...Several of them sitting at little tables trainer on the side drawing up some plans, 90% of which wont even be realized..(BTW i think this trainer gig is one of the biggest scam on all of america. I am sure they all laugh about it when some big ole fatty drops makes a one week effort to lose some weight and pays for a years worth of training classes only to appear one or two weeks and quit!!!! Payments are all non refundable. I dont wanna be mean, but fat people are my number one motivation for going to the gym. I will confess that my health is 90% driven by filling my mind with the most ghastly images of what i could suffer from if i dont stay healthy. I use fat people as a visual aid in this endeavour. And it works great for me...
But on a good note, when i went up to the tread mill area, about all of them were packed with women. Running like they would be forced to sleep with an old fogey like Winbet and if they sweat enough may be they will convince him to hump the less sweaty/smelly compadre on the machine next to them..
Of course my ego kicked in telling me i could lick all these women and run 100 miles leaving them in my dust. To my suprise, it worked, i run a mile in 9 minutes.. That is a major achievement in my efforts to get fit and lose this gut. The work out went quite well, people were willing to show me how some of the gnarly unfamiliar machines worked... But i was really put off by the fact that we all leave goobs of sweat behind along with germs and disgusting secreations i dont wanna think of.
When i finished i went to the front desk to get my car keys to go home..(they had taken them in place of my id which i refused to give them.... those tricky little buzzards) So here comes miss pretty little face to find out how my work out went and inquire if i had given the contract any thought...(mixed in were a bunch of flattery that had me laughing inside)..This time however she had my keys and motioned me to join her at one of the tables in the lobby. Calculator in hand she starts punching out numbers and stuff about how much i would be losing paying on a daily basis... All i could offer was a one month upfront payment and that was if she could give me a deal. The questions kept coming heavy and hard but i would not buy!!!! From pleading to cajoling to down right taunting!!!! (She actually said one time "then this might not be for you") Of course i laughed at that. Any way she finally broke down and gave offered me a 3 month deal for 150 (a one month deal would be 160 if i went 4 times a week)
Now even i could see the good deal i was getting. a 3 month work out for the price of one with no contract, all i had to do was give her the 150 in cash right there...
DONE!!!
I paid up and i am now a full member....I only hope that when the football season begins and vegas trips, free alcohol, buffalo wings and prime ribs and steak begin to feature more often on my menu, i will still keep up my regiment....
Ps....i was shocked to learn that i dont weigh 200 lbs...I weigh a whopping 219 pounds!!!!! Not that i mind, i just wanna turn it all to muscle.. I secretly suspect that those sneaky buzzards tweaked their scales to trick customers into thinking that they weigh more than their actual weight!!!!
this golds gym near close to my house..Actually i have two of these somewhat equidistant from each other, One features a straight shot with about 4 or 5 lights, the other has a couple of turns and features about 10 traffic lights.
Any way, i walk around, planning on checking out the basketball court and the cardio equipment. When i walk up to the front desk, of course i mention that i do not intend to ever sign a contract and that i am willing to pay the 10 bucks
a day for walk in visits. So the attendant gives me a form to fill out and he goes to some office to get some one!!!!
So i fill out the form and leave many spaces blank because i am familiar with the games this type of places play (ie no address no phone or email on the phone) and when i look up, this pretty babe is walking towards me with her hand held out. Of course i know what they are playing at here....The old massage his ego then when all the blood is drained from his brain, swilling around in his nether regions, flirt him into signing one of those famous bullshit
contracts... She starts out on the tour showing me the equipment in a casual way, asking me questions which i was answering evasively or with a joke!!!! Throwing their game plan off a little bit...Any way as we come close to the end of the tour, the conversation is now going back and forth between types of equipment and payment plans they feature. At this time i drop the hammer on her and tell, her that there is absolutely zero chance of her convincing me to sign a contract!. I guess she realized the determination in my voice and moved to convincing me to pay my daily payments upfront (prepaid contract sort of but not really a contract) She wants me to pay 400 bucks for 18 months...I just wanna play some ball every now and then, i sure as hell wont pay that. Of course i let her have it lightly that this is not a deal i was interested in. But she was a persistent little dynamo and started usher me into her office...Big no no!!!! I stepped back and said, i will think about her offer and let her know. and turned around to leave. She mumbled her good byes to my back and i could have sworn i detected great resignation in her voice when she said she will be waiting to see me back.
Anyway, here comes the evening and i am getting ready to hit dingy little gym on our property. Of course the little dark place stood no chance against the massive overly done Golds gym.
I finally decide to head straight back and do my work out for the day over there.
You can imagine the shock on the face of the pretty thing that was trying to sell me a contract. But she remained calm, even gave me a free work out for today and wished me well...
I gotta say, working out in a real gym is definately more beneficial than the privacy of your home gym...Sure it can be intimidating when you find all these gym rats mugging around 250 pounds of raw muscle but on a second look, you can tell who is on the "roids" and some dudes, out and out have nasty looking bodies, big ass chest, tiny winny legs, buff chest. and what look like hams for arms with zero definition, i counted one or two over weight guys and the fat chicks just couldnt stop coming into the gym...Several of them sitting at little tables trainer on the side drawing up some plans, 90% of which wont even be realized..(BTW i think this trainer gig is one of the biggest scam on all of america. I am sure they all laugh about it when some big ole fatty drops makes a one week effort to lose some weight and pays for a years worth of training classes only to appear one or two weeks and quit!!!! Payments are all non refundable. I dont wanna be mean, but fat people are my number one motivation for going to the gym. I will confess that my health is 90% driven by filling my mind with the most ghastly images of what i could suffer from if i dont stay healthy. I use fat people as a visual aid in this endeavour. And it works great for me...
But on a good note, when i went up to the tread mill area, about all of them were packed with women. Running like they would be forced to sleep with an old fogey like Winbet and if they sweat enough may be they will convince him to hump the less sweaty/smelly compadre on the machine next to them..
Of course my ego kicked in telling me i could lick all these women and run 100 miles leaving them in my dust. To my suprise, it worked, i run a mile in 9 minutes.. That is a major achievement in my efforts to get fit and lose this gut. The work out went quite well, people were willing to show me how some of the gnarly unfamiliar machines worked... But i was really put off by the fact that we all leave goobs of sweat behind along with germs and disgusting secreations i dont wanna think of.
When i finished i went to the front desk to get my car keys to go home..(they had taken them in place of my id which i refused to give them.... those tricky little buzzards) So here comes miss pretty little face to find out how my work out went and inquire if i had given the contract any thought...(mixed in were a bunch of flattery that had me laughing inside)..This time however she had my keys and motioned me to join her at one of the tables in the lobby. Calculator in hand she starts punching out numbers and stuff about how much i would be losing paying on a daily basis... All i could offer was a one month upfront payment and that was if she could give me a deal. The questions kept coming heavy and hard but i would not buy!!!! From pleading to cajoling to down right taunting!!!! (She actually said one time "then this might not be for you") Of course i laughed at that. Any way she finally broke down and gave offered me a 3 month deal for 150 (a one month deal would be 160 if i went 4 times a week)
Now even i could see the good deal i was getting. a 3 month work out for the price of one with no contract, all i had to do was give her the 150 in cash right there...
DONE!!!
I paid up and i am now a full member....I only hope that when the football season begins and vegas trips, free alcohol, buffalo wings and prime ribs and steak begin to feature more often on my menu, i will still keep up my regiment....
Ps....i was shocked to learn that i dont weigh 200 lbs...I weigh a whopping 219 pounds!!!!! Not that i mind, i just wanna turn it all to muscle.. I secretly suspect that those sneaky buzzards tweaked their scales to trick customers into thinking that they weigh more than their actual weight!!!!
