Awwwww. That’s sweet.
Hubris is still alive.
Nice, right?
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How hard a name is “Bob” to remember? Mal is a manager, and one important managerial skill is to remember names, isn’t it?
Also, being succinct is a managerial skill. And he doesn’t really seem to have that one down, either…
You know, Mal may not be a good manager. Did anyone catch that before now? Hmmm.
He must have used other skills to get where he was at Sportsmart.
We should think of what those skills might have been.
And then maybe go looking for the bodies… or at least the forms for when they were fired, and why.
Oops. Lowell Expected.
You know how it goes- you think a little, find a thought you like, fixate on it, expectations form around the thought… and then someone lights a fire under the whole thing.
I’ve been there and done that. Possibly you have too.
Modifying is very important to those of us who just…can’t… keep… up with these young, fit people who insist on always being at workouts… It’s like they’re obsessed or something. I mean, if I had a strong, fit physique, I wouldn’t have to go to workouts every dang morning, now would I?
Oh, wait…
I imagine that most epiphanies that occur in chain gyms involve upcharges and not having enough water and protein the day before. Or too much alcohol in general.
But of course, Lowell has a different mindset than all that. His mindset, unfortunately, involves big chain stores.
Paste may not have a been a Trainer. He was more of an Untrained, in the same sense that those in government are often referred to as the ‘Ungoverned’.
Anyhow, I’m sure plenty of you remember when Paste was ‘training’ Lowell before the first Outdoorfest?
Wishful thinking is what humans are GOOD at! We see a brightly colored berry as we wander the savannas of the ancient world, and it’s all “Hey, that doesn’t look poisonous, but nutritious and appetizing” and then our bloodline dies out of the world.
That may be an extreme example. But if you’re in a gym, and you see an area marked off by waist high walls, and floored with the kind of mats they had in your preschool and kindergarten days, why WOULDN’T that be an area for napping, I wanna know!
I mean Lowell. He wants to know.
Lowell knows that you do workouts for yourself- your self image, your health, your peace of mind, your whole life. What he probably doesn’t know is that you do workouts hoping that people you’re kinda sweet on like your new self image, your new health, your new peace of mind, and your whole new life… or at least that they know you’ve GOT all that new stuff, and that they don’t think you’re just the same old lump you’ve always been before you got slightly more buff and happy. We SHOULD know that’s why we do it, but it’s instinctive. We like to think we’re making forebrain actions and not brainstem reactions.
Or at least that what I like to think. And I think that’s what Lowell likes to think.
Sucking in your gut never does as much for you as you think, and never does more for you than just looking happy in your own skin.
On the other hand, there must be some kinda instinct or something to stand up straight and suck in the gut when around people we want to be better for.
Lowell never used to worry about stuff like that, did he? Now here he is at Fitness Protection Program. We should start an office pool thingy and everyone guess how long his membership lasts. And another one to guess how long he’ll pay on the membership after he quits.
We remember a while back when Lowell finally took his first little steps into the real outdoors world, right?
He rode his bike to work with Hubris showing him the way. That was nice.
Then, of course, he went a little bats and lived in the woods for a few days.
A gym, though… might be a totally foreign milieu for ol’ Lowell.
We’ll see.
