one half vinegar, one half honey

this is what happened to me today. i went for a run. and then, when i had about forty five minutes to go, a man came in. he wanted to use the tread mill. of which there are two, but one is out of order. (and has been so for over two weeks. don't even get me started.) he informed me that he was waiting and that i had another fifteen minutes. i was pissed. so i told him that i would be off in half an hour (half an hour being the time i would have been on the treadmill since he had been in the room, waiting and which is the amount of time that i have to limit my workout to "officially" when someone else is waiting to use the equipement.) okay, i get that this is how the rules of the gym work. but as people who work out are likely to know, it takes a certain amount of mental prep to complete a work out. when you know you are going to work out, you kinda of prepare for it. i had prepared to do an hour run. i wanted to do an hour run. if i am going to get all sweaty, i am going to go as hard as i can. and i recognize this about other people. several times i have gone to the work out room to find that it is occupied. and so i leave. and i come back. i would never dream of telling someone else to stop using their machine, regardless of the rules. people work out for longer than half an hour. its just the way it is.

but then i felt like an ass. and i apologized and said i would be off at the thirty minute mark, which would mean that i had only been on the machine for half an hour. he just put his water bottle by the machine and said that he would be back in a few minutes. i ended up doing fifty minutes on the tread. which, unfortunately, just goes to show that you get more flies with honey than with vinegar. i hate when that happens.