Alright, so today's people watching spot was the gym. At the school I go to, the rec center has been completely remodeled and outfitted with brand new machinery. Today ( a day for spinning, lord help me) was a fantastic opportunity to be a creep and watch people, as all I was doing was sitting on a bike and staring in front of me. Well, yes I was sweating like crazy as well... but thats not the point. I was looking around and across the gym for someone proper to watch and was having trouble finding someone interesting. Then I realized, I'm not waiting for the interesting thing to find me, it's waiting for ME to find IT. So I looked at the first person that crossed my eyeline:
Like most of the people at the gym on the weight machines (at least at my school) it was a guy. A very muscular guy wearing a shirt with the next and arms cut off. Start on some lunges. Now to me, after spending a couple years at this school, I have been groomed to think that this look is the "fratastic look" for the gym. However, this time I convinced myself there had to be something different about him than all the other frat guys. He does lunges wall to wall of the gym. His shirt had some logo and smaller-type words that I unfortunately cant remember, but what I do remember is seeing "Alaska" and "2005" in big bold letters outside the picture in the middle of the back of his shirt. You know, the kind of shirt you buy in airports that advertise for an entire state. (Which by the way.. genius? i think so. So simple too...)Moved on to some crazy arm machine, he looked like a bat the way this thing made your arms move the weights. First thought: OK, so you've been to Alaska. Thats pretty damn cool. What brought him to Alaska, though? He didn't have the look of an eskimo, whatever that look may be.. in fact he had blonde hair and was really tan. Perhaps he has family there. Alright, so we'll go with that. He has family of sorts in Alaska, and now he is in Arizona working out in a shirt that shows off this fact. Next thought: why keep this shirt? Now, judging by the fact that he has cut off the arms and neck of the shirt, I am going to say that he does not like this shirt anymore in its original form. Move on to barbells. Alright, "2005", so he got it 5 years ago, which judging by the fact that he is working out in a university rec center, he can't be older than 23. Sat down on the bare floor and started doing crunches like it was his business. This puts him in high school when he bought it. AHH high school, we all were so dumb then... of course he doesn't like the shirt anymore.. he probably bought on some stupid whim, like we all buy those autograph books for disney world characters. So he ripped it up and decided he would pour sweat into it instead, aka T-shirt HELL. Good plan, that's what I would do to my clothes if I didn't care about em ( I seem to care TOO much about all mine..). So far, this is the most in depth I have gotten to know ANY frat guy. Although, most of the ones I've met are belligerently drunk, which doesn't really give them a fair chance does it. Note to self: give frat boys a chance...
And this is when he moved on to the upstairs machines, and i could no longer stalk him.
Well, I'm not sure how enjoyable that was for you to read, its a... well I dont know what kind of story it is. I would say normal, but what is normal if everyone lives their lives differently? Well, I guess we'll see what I learn about people tomorrow.
Oh, and he had a tattoo with greek letters on it. On the back side of his neck. Branded?
Peace
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