I have been wracking my brain trying to come up with an interesting topic for this week’s blog. I made that goal last week and it would be a shame to mess it up a week into it. It’s been a rough week for some reason and I feel a bit topic-free. Not a good thing. So I decided that since I do not have an interesting topic I would share something that is a source of discussion between my daughter and I a couple of times a week.
As I have mentioned a few times I go to a fairly large gym. It’s one of those gyms that you may have in your own town that the parking lot always seems full no matter what time of day it is (Christmas and Superbowl Sunday are the exception..then it’s only half full!) Week nights are especially crowded with everyone working out after work, including my daughter and me.
So here’s my observation and object of bewilderment. Here we are in the parking lot of a GYM and yet everyone is jockeying for a close parking spot! The gym by definition is a place where you work out, get exercise, hopefully break a sweat. So why is it that the same people who are there to exercise have such an aversion to walking a little further into the gym?
Let me be clear, I live in Las Vegas, NV. Yes, it does get hot in the summer. But with the exception of those miserable four months we have pretty mild weather. It gets windy and cold but we are not trudging through a foot of snow or trying not to fall on ice (okay there was that one morning right before New Years where they had a small ice pond at the entrance but that was surrounded by caution tape) and it rarely rains. So weather cannot be a good excuse for stalking a parking spot in the front section.
I cannot count how many times I have been cut off by someone who wanted to beat me to a parking spot. The fact is, I am never going to fight someone at the gym for a close spot. We have no issue with walking a little ways to get to the gym. Afterall, we are AT THE GYM! It is not like either of us are wearing 5″ heels nor are we in a huge hurry to get inside or back to our car. We are there to work out so that extra walk is sort of like a warm up.
The question is are we really such a lazy society that even at the gym we do not want to take a few extra steps to get where we are going?
On My Mind 
I don’t think it’s laziness. I think it’s competitiveness. Folks just don’t like the idea that someone might have it better. Then again, I’m known to have a dark view of humanity, so I could be wrong.
Hmmm I never thought of it that way! Not sure if it’s more refreshing to think of it as competiveness instead of laziness but it makes more sense at the gym! 🙂
Makes you wonder how many of those people live close enough to walk or ride a bike to the gym!