Holy Crap! I Hope I Don't End Up On YouTube
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Alternative title: "Why Mr. Unlost Suggests I Start Wearing A Helmet To The Gym."
So yesterday morning, 7:45, very busy gym. I'm running on a treadmill that's in the middle of three rows of treadmills, pretty much all occupied. The place is humming with activity. I'm working up my pace, on 5.5 mph and gradually increasing. It's a beautiful morning and I'm feeling pretty good about things in general.
I'm listening to my audiobook ("Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese) and enjoying the book very much. I want to re-listen to something I'd just heard, so I hit the 30 second replay. While reaching for the iPhone, I knocked it off the treadmill shelf and it fell to the tread, then flew off the back of the machine.
I instinctively reached down to grab the phone, and next thing you know my foot turns to the side, I'm flailing my arms like a giant uncoordinated windmill, and down I go like a sack of potatoes, landing with a thud on my right shoulder and arm. As I fall, I yell "Holy Crap!" and then I go shooting off the back of the treadmill, landing in the fetal position on the floor behind it. I'm stunned. I keep repeating, "Holy Crap!" and I get up and now I start cracking up laughing, I mean I cannot stop. I can't figure out which is funnier, the fact that I just fell off the treadmill, or that all I could do was keep repeating "Holy Crap!"
The treadmills on each side of me were occupied _ the people on them didn't even look around to see if I was still alive. I got up, hit stop, then got back on the treadmill and started over. I'm thinking, "Maybe nobody saw that." Then I'm thinking, "Who am I kidding _ everybody saw that. And somewhere in Chicagoland, 81 just chuckled and he doesn't know why."
The guy on my left glanced over and said, "You okay?" And I looked at him and said "Holy Crap!"
I mean, it's bad enough that you suffer the indignity of falling. Then the damn treadmill shoots you off and you fall again, this time to the floor. It just adds insult to injury, I tell you.
Holy Crap.
So yesterday morning, 7:45, very busy gym. I'm running on a treadmill that's in the middle of three rows of treadmills, pretty much all occupied. The place is humming with activity. I'm working up my pace, on 5.5 mph and gradually increasing. It's a beautiful morning and I'm feeling pretty good about things in general.
I'm listening to my audiobook ("Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese) and enjoying the book very much. I want to re-listen to something I'd just heard, so I hit the 30 second replay. While reaching for the iPhone, I knocked it off the treadmill shelf and it fell to the tread, then flew off the back of the machine.
I instinctively reached down to grab the phone, and next thing you know my foot turns to the side, I'm flailing my arms like a giant uncoordinated windmill, and down I go like a sack of potatoes, landing with a thud on my right shoulder and arm. As I fall, I yell "Holy Crap!" and then I go shooting off the back of the treadmill, landing in the fetal position on the floor behind it. I'm stunned. I keep repeating, "Holy Crap!" and I get up and now I start cracking up laughing, I mean I cannot stop. I can't figure out which is funnier, the fact that I just fell off the treadmill, or that all I could do was keep repeating "Holy Crap!"
The treadmills on each side of me were occupied _ the people on them didn't even look around to see if I was still alive. I got up, hit stop, then got back on the treadmill and started over. I'm thinking, "Maybe nobody saw that." Then I'm thinking, "Who am I kidding _ everybody saw that. And somewhere in Chicagoland, 81 just chuckled and he doesn't know why."
The guy on my left glanced over and said, "You okay?" And I looked at him and said "Holy Crap!"
I mean, it's bad enough that you suffer the indignity of falling. Then the damn treadmill shoots you off and you fall again, this time to the floor. It just adds insult to injury, I tell you.
Holy Crap.
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if you had an evo, none of this would have happened
I KNEW YOU'D SAY THAT!!!
The treadmill always wins.
I have the aching shoulder and scuffed-up right side to prove it!
at least you are nurse and you can fix yourself
ice something
Here's my new workout gear.
The original post made me laugh. And this made me laugh too.
(And I'm in the middle of Cutting for Stone too - read it on the treadmill this afternoon. Didn't fall off though. But remember, I did crack my knee running to get ON the treadmill a couple months ago so you're much more coordinated than I am.)
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maybe one of your fellow bostonians can swing by her gym and stage an instant replay
It would have been classic
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this is hilarious!
Unlost, you didn't have to share that, but you did.
Good for you!
Are you okay? :?
+1
Thanks for sharing that, Unlost. Haven't laughed that hard in a while. Too bad nobody filmed it and pt it on YouTube. I have a feeling you would be a prime candidate for a Tosh.0 Web Redemption.
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Definately has given me all the justification I need for never attending a gym!
is that a bear suit or bomb suit?? and where can I get one??