- January 17, 2009
- 15 Comments
- Fa' Real?, General, Health & Beauty, Life of Jenny, Not So Much, Ridiculous
Gym Equipment Placement FAIL
It took me years… YEARS, people to garner enough courage to utilize the Carnival Room of Mirrors that some pople at the gym call a “weight room”. I still call it a Carnival Room of Mirrors. It is quite cruel really. Back when I lived in Cali – So Cal, yo… I belonged to a gym that had a weight room just for women. It was all pink and safe and minimally mirrored.
But the gym I currently attend is not located in So Cal, so there is no indoor 25 meter pool, no indoor track, no neon lights and thumping sound system, and no special weight room for the ladies with pink-seated equipment. IN FACT… there is one particular spot in the weight room at my small-town gym that I feel is rather un-nerving. At best.
Take a peek at this machine. Just looking at this machine makes me squirm.
Unfortunately, this machine is a necessary evil… for a woman. Every time I look at her I think of my gynecologist and cold metal and crackling paper. It’s just THAT uncomfortable for me. I suspect I am not alone in my trepidation. As if the functional purpose alone is not enough to make a girl shrink… This machine, at my gym – FACES A FLOOR TO CEILING MIRROR!!!
*waves smelling salts to help you off the ground*
Oh, and that isn’t the worst. No it isn’t. You can’t even imagine… can you? It is ridiculous on a level incomprehensible even to the animal kingdom. This crotch-machine is almost directly across from this butt-machine:
*waves more smelling salts and splashes you with water*
When I choose to use the dreaded crotch-machine, I am VERY mindful of the things a girl should be mindful of whilst utilizing said crotch-machine. However, I cannot control the universe and not once, but thrice… I have… someoneman has… I can’t even talk about it. The horror. I think I need a shower…. I feel so… well, look:
(*drawing not to scale. I took liberties with proportion, and my feet are not perfectly round)
15 Responses to “Gym Equipment Placement FAIL”
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That is simply cruel and unusual. You need to contact the ACLU. Definitely harassment.
yeah, we gotta sue someone
That is so wrong!! I hate that crotch machine for so many reasons. I’m afraid of the kind of music that might be playing in your gym…..bow chicka bow bow….
So true, so very true. Which is why I stay far, far away from things like that.
Yeah, I have yet to use that one. I just ignore the mirrors…No matter what gym you go to, they have them. Necessary evil.
You had me at cold metal and cracking paper. Love the artists rendering. You are too much. Just reading your shit gives me an ab workout.
OMG! You crack me up!
That’s a shop of horrors to be sure…can’t you bribe the owner to let you have private time? Some moments should NOT be shared.
ROFL!!! This is just another reason why exercise is evil. and beautiful art skills there, Jenny!
OMG – I instantly thought of GYN when I saw the pic of that machine. And those mirrors?! I am absolutely positive a man thought that one up!!!
You are not alone in your trepidation… First thought was “is it that time of the year again??” YUK!!! The gym I used to go to here is all women so at least that takes a little weirdness away. Oh, and that machine is in a secluded corner.
Oh. My.
I must stay far, far away from that machine – and any building that houses it. That’s just wrong. Who invented such a torture device?
I. am. howling.!!!! You are so stinkin’ creative!
It is like going to the Gyno only with a big audience
We go to the same gym! And yes, that machine is EVIL! It looks like a birth chair in a delivery room. Ewww. It should face a wall with NO mirrors. Privacy please!