I've been trying to lose weight for as long as I can remember.I'm spending
my junior year of college in Spain, and I even joined the gym here--during my
supposed time away from responsibility--to try to reach my goal.There's
nothing I hate more--well, besides Nazis and fish gills--than exercise.But
losing weight is important to me, so I joined the biggest gym in my Spanish
town.
Little did I know when joining that my gym held the local reputation for
having the most fitness-crazed exercise maniacs of the 200,000-person town.
Right before I paid the first month's membership, I asked to take a tour of
the facility.The secretary told me to wait a moment and Jorge, the
manager, would show me around.So I stand around for a few minutes watching
a few girls come out of the weight room, and finally a brown-haired guy
comes up and shakes my hand."I'm Jorge," he says, in fast-paced Spanish,
"nice to meet you.Come.I'll show you around."
"Gracias," I say, following him down the hallway.He showed me the upstairs
empty rooms where the pilates and abdominal and cycling classes are, then he
showed me the weight room and the attached aerobic center.He told me he'd
show me where the locker room was next.So I followed him into paradise.
Unlike the other gyms I toured before that day, this one had a full locker
room, with benches, lockers, toilets and urinals, showers, and even three
saunas.But the facilities weren't what made it paradise.The exercisers
were.I'm not going to lie and say that there were a ton of hot, naked
twenty to thirty-five-year-olds walking around erect, casting one another
knowing glances.I'll stick to the truth: there were a ton of hot, naked
twenty to thirty-five-year-olds, plus just a few of the obligatory hairy old
men, walking around, soft Spanish penises swinging between their legs.
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