Boy, do I have some Tales to Tell...
Sunday, July 06, 2003
 
A friend of mine was working out on the elliptical machine the other day when he noticed something disturbing: two children, neither of them older than 5 years old, were playing on the elliptical trainer next to his. Not playing as in using the machine properly BUT playing as in using the machine as a jungle gym.

I was working out this morning on the heavy weights when I noticed a young boy about 8 years old sitting on one of the weight benches playing with his Nintendo Gameboy. His father was on the adjacent weight bench working out his biceps.

A co-instructor of mine was lifting weights one morning when she realized that there were three (yes, you read correctly) strollers with sleeping babies on the same weight floor. There mothers were in the vicinity trying to get a workout of some sort.

My first question is always: WHERE THE FUCK IS THE MANAGEMENT? Shouldn't the management of the gym inform these people that you cannot have your kids hanging out on the gym floor?

I can understand bringing your child to the gym and checking them into Child Care. What I don't understand is why parents do not see how dangerous the gym floor is to children. Have these people lost their minds? Are they so desperate to get a workout that they will risk the chance of their child getting hurt? Forget about the kid hitting his head on a piece of equipment. How about the child getting their hand ripped off by a treadmill?

We all know that the moment that a child gets hurt, it is everyone else's fault except the idiot parent who has chosen not to protect the child from the hazards that the gym presents. Parents, if the child is too much to take care off, USE SOME FUCKING BIRTH CONTROL! Sometimes I see a child running around the gym and hope that they get hurt so that the parent will notice their stupidity.

I truly am an evil person. Later.
 
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