Miniature Rant

I've been going to the Virginia Beach Recreation Center for about 4 months now and it's been a unique gym-going experience. I originally joined because I needed to for Bollywood classes. I was okay with that, though, because I only had to pay $44 for 6 months and they have pretty nice equipment there. The only downfall of the Rec Center is that you have to sign up for the machines you want to use in advance and there's a 30 minute time limit for each one that you use. This caused a bit of embarrassment the first time I went in September because I didn't know about this rule and got on a treadmill that someone else had signed up for... that lady was fine with telling me (in the tone one would use while talking to a 4 year old) about signing up at the front desk.

Cut to this Monday when I signed up to get a treadmill at 2pm. I got into the gym around 1:45pm and decided to use the StairMaster while I waited for the guy on Treadmill #6 to finish his workout. He finished around 2:04pm and I went over as soon as he was off of it. I got on there and was feeling really good after my StairMaster warm-up, so I decided to go at a pace of 8.5 minutes per mile. After I was almost to mile 2, I was feeling REALLY good, so I decided to up my pace and try for 3 miles in 25 minutes. I was very proud of myself when I really did meet my goal!

About 1 minute after I had stopped running, the lady who was signed up for the next time slot came over to ask how much longer I would be. I told her it would probably be another minute. Then the lady on the treadmill next to mine told me to make sure that I get on to the machines when my time slot starts because people get upset when they have to wait.

Here are some of the things that irritated me about all of this:

1) The guy before me was running late, so I started as soon as I could after he was finished.

2) I was sweating A LOT and breathing heavily when the other lady came to ask whether I was done. Couldn't she have waited a little bit longer until I had actually cooled down?

3) The lady who was going on after me had a book in her hand. I'm assuming she was going to read it on the treadmill because she put it on the little shelf thing when she took her turn. I'm pretty sure she wasn't going to do any heavy exercise and could have just walked around the gym a couple of times while waiting for the person who was actually working out.

4) I'm pretty sure the book she was going to read was the Bible (it was small, thick, and leather-bound). Maybe she could have read about the fruits of the spirit while waiting... I think there's something about patience in there.
5) I was wearing my awesome-orange-tie-dyed-Scott-Appalachian-Ministries t-shirt and decided to keep all of these thoughts in my head because I didn't want to be a bad witness for Christ. Instead, I wrote them all on here, which is probably not what Jesus would do.