
17. A series of unfortunate events at the gym.
“I’ve been working out the better part of my life and have had quite a few, what the hell moments: In high school, I watched a guy squatting close to 500 lbs dip down to parallel, crap all over the floor, come close to fainting (he may have actually lost consciousness, I can’t remember), and then drop the weight on some other guy’s foot. In college at a private gym, I saw one of those huge rubber balls get sucked under a treadmill. It flipped the treadmill on top of the girl running, seriously injuring her. The same gym as above, I was working out when the power suddenly shut off. One of the guys on a treadmill just kept running and flipped himself over the front of the treadmill.”
“On 9/11, I was in my gym’s shower room. The television starts airing information about the event, and I start watching, mesmerized. When the news station cut to commercial, I turned away and was a mere inch from some old guy’s junk. He apparently decided to stand, butt naked, on top of one of the benches in order to get a better view. In grad school, I would go to the track and run while the track and field people practiced. Also, I saw a sprinter slam head-on into an oblivious coach. I think that’s it. I know I’m too late in the thread for up-votes, but I wanted to share anyway.” Washington__irving has definitely had their fair share of weird gym experiences.