Necessary Things

Generally speaking, we should be kept in a bubble.We have mentioned before how insanely clumsy we are. We fall down standing still, we'll tip over at random. We will completely drop everything in our hands for no apparent reason at all. Earlier this week, even, we almost choked on toothpaste AND fell off the treadmill in two separate events! Most things we own should also be bubblefied, or at least siliconed or bumpered SOMEHOW, as they will inevitably go careening towards the floor at some point in time.

Today was no exception. We had an eye doctor appointment this morning (all went well), so we got to work late. Which means we missed day 3 of our running schedule. And today is Friday, and we leave work early on Fridays. At 4:00pm. So we could've run after work, but during lunch was preferable. What's the point of leaving early if you suck up that time on the treadmill? And hey, it was only 20 minutes. So, come lunchtime, we gather up our clothes and toddle downstairs to the gym. We go in, look around quick to make sure a treadmill is available, and we go to the locker room to get changed.

We emerge, 5 minutes, 3 shirt changes, and a couple discouraged looks in the mirror later. WE ARE READY TO RUN. We have our sneakers, our iPod, our ponytail. We are on the the treadmill. We're moving.  Oh, what's that we see? Is that our Exec. VP who is so fit it's questionable if he's actually human? It IS! It IS!

ExecVP looks at us and smiles in a friendly way. He really is a lovely man.
'Hi ExecVP!', we say and wave. And by wave, we mean raise our arm, get our hand stuck in our headphone cord, and manage to ROCKET our iPod across the room.

We stopped the treadmill, got off, retrieved our iPod and just looked straight ahead for the rest of our run.

Thankfully we have a nice hardcase on our iPod so it doesn't get all jacked when we are clumsy. It's still good as new, believe it or not.

And, we have learned our lesson. No more running at lunchtime.

iSee iPod case, $15.02 - it should be noted this the closest we could find online to the one we have. And it appears this one may not be compatible with all models.

Happy weekend, everyone!

-LB

Comments

[Never the Bridesmaid]

I totally would do something like that. Not exercising, of course, because that would require effort and energy and sweating, but in the process of saying hello to someone important, I would manage to do something completely dorky.

ok, i just have to comment to say that i do this EVERYDAY- and it's even more wonderful when the ipod falls onto the tredmill and zooms into the wall. You have to hand it to Apple, tho, because I don't have a case and it took me 3 years to break my ipod mini. So, you're not alone on this one.