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I’ve switched my gym visit times from the mornings before work to the evenings, about 7pm. It’s a whole new set of people.

There’s a lady who is there every once in a while, who I remember from my previous switch from evenings/mornings. I remember her because she is loud. I remember her because she talks to me, even though I don’t know her. And I remember her because she talks to everyone else, even though they don’t know her.

This lady is dense. She’s nice, but she doesn’t seem to grasp that when people are working out, particularly those with headphones running on treadmills, they don’t really want to carry on conversations.

Luckily, she didn’t trap me. But I did watch her as she talked to some guy last night about reroofing her house. This guy didn’t look amused at all.

Anyway, the highlight of the story was when she started talking to another girl, who was running on the treadmill next to her. I know this girl (by name), because she is a local radio personality. She’s also insanely skinny, but that’s beside the point. Anyway, this lady started her usual blather and it got bad enough that the runner girl stopped her run and left for a while (I suppose to go to the restroom to get away from this lady). When she came back, she used a different treadmill on the other side of the gym.

Anyway, when runner girl finally got done on her treadmill she started walking to leave, having to pass by talky lady again. I overheard the conversation, though I wasn’t really all that near them. It went like this:

Lady: Hey, can you put that TV up there to Animal Planet for me?
Girl: ?
Lady: The TV on the right, can you change the channel to Animal Planet
Girl: (confused, because she is standing nowhere near the televisions) Okay. What channel is it?
Lady: Oh shoot, I don’t know. Hey (talking to some random guy in the vicinity), do you know what channel Animal Planet it?
Guy: No.
Lady: Oh, well, I’d like to watch Animal Planet.

Meanwhile girl has moved over by the TVs and is starting to change the channel.

Lady: (to next random guy walking by). Do YOU KNOW WHAT CHANNEL ANIMAL PLANET IT?

Guy: Yeah, 33.

Lady: HEY DAWN IT’S 33! (screaming to channel changing girl)

Girl: (changes channel to 33) - then leaves.

Note that “girl”’s name isn’t DAWN, it’s Liz.

Later, as I’m leaving, lady has moved over to the cardio area to jump rope. As I walk past her, she says to me:

HEY, DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME MENARDS CLOSES.

Now, why would I, random guy #1, have any clue what time Menard’s closes? My best guess would be approximately 9pm, but I would hope that approximately 9pm would be ANYONE WHO DOESN”T WORK AT MENARDS best guess.

Me: Don’t know

Her: IS IT STILL RAINING OUTSIDE?

It’s curious how I would know that, since, along with “lady”, I’ve been inside the gym for the past hour or so

Me: Don’t know

and i leave.

and i’m spent.

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