Gym Socks and Jordans
I walk to the gym. That way I get a little warmup and it is an excuse to get some tea. Too bad the tea is in the opposite direction of the gym, but I don’t mind. Once at the gym I finally got my fingerprints scanned and entered the locker room. After putting my bag away and getting my work-out towel, I proceeded to exercise. Since I worked out yesterday I didn’t go overboard. I just did some stair climber and situps and more situps and back exercises. Then I decided to do some dumb-bell stuff to beef up my arms for the party tonight. (awww-yeah!) It was a short workout but I got greasy sweaty anyway. So I took a shower. But when I got back to my locker after taking a shower I was putting on my fresh clothes that I packed, but I was missing something. I was searching and searching and I said, “Aww man!” And this dude who was next to me asked, “Are you missing something?” And I looked around more and finally said, “Yeah, I forgot to pack extra socks!”
Then the man made a comment like, “That’s a bummer.” I sighed and searched the other pockets in my bag and found no socks. Giving up I decided that I would just wear my sweaty socks home, since I was going to take another shower later anyway. But then the man said, “Do you want to wear some of my extra socks? They’re nice and clean.” I was frightened. I did not know this man and neither did I want our conversation to enter such forbidden territory. Wearing ski boots rentals is dangerous enough, but wearing another man’s gym socks is like having him ask me, “Hi, do you want athlete’s foot? Because if you do…here’s some socks!”
So as you can probably guess, I respectfully declined to wear that man’s gym socks. TOO WEIRD. I know he was just probably trying to be nice and help a bro out. But seriously, the socks were all yellow and nasty. I can’t remember the last time I wore a yellow sock. And I’m not talking about Gold Toe socks that have the yellow part near the front. These socks were yellow near the heel and looked like they were a petri dish for colonies of life-forms.
But I thought he was a cool dude so I shook his hand and introduced myself.
-Tyler