Thursday, May 17, 2007
Germaphobes at the gym
I find germaphobes to be an odd bunch. They’re usually excellent bloggers, but in real life they’re a bit freaky to me. (I’m sure I’m freaky to them too.) I saw one at the gym for the first time yesterday. She approached an exercise bike, but before sitting down, she busted out a bottle of anti-bacterial gel and started rubbing it all over the seat with her towel. She did the same thing to the handlebars.
Okay, I can understand the handlebars, but she was wearing pants. Was slathering the seat in gel really necessary? What exactly did she expect people to be leaving there anyway? She preferred to risk having damp spots on her ass to picking up whatever she was imagining to be there. So, this is fine. If putting this stuff on the equipment she uses makes her feel better, then go right ahead. But the odd thing was she kept looking around like she was paranoid. She caught me watching her odd behavior once. (I was pulling on some weights while facing her direction, what else was I supposed to do?) Even while she was peddling she kept looking around her like she was expecting a serial killer to sneak up on her and slit her throat. Maybe she was paranoid that some germ-ridden bacteria farm of a person might come near her.
My next question: Why gel? Isn’t that kinda gross to sit on? I mean, squish! Hasn’t she heard of Lysol wipes? Well, whatever, I don’t use the exercise bikes anyway. Germaphobes are fine, kinda funny to me. But the paranoid ones are just creepy.
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