Beef, Angus strip roast, is on sale for $8.99 per pound, chicken breasts, boneless, $4.99 a pound. My own flesh is worth far more, I found. (Not in the way you're thinking, Elliot Spitzer and all)
I responded to a junk mail ad for a place I'll call as "Shylock Fitness Center." It was a promo, I knew this, but I checked it out just to see. I'm a tough sell and I wasn't worried that I'd get pushed into anything. That never happens, hardly.
The place provides one-on-one fitness training-- a private hour and a half, three times a week with a personal trainer, a nutritional program, and body fat analysis. -I'd visited this place once four years ago to do a feature for a newspaper, so I knew how they operated-- and that they were pricy.
-But you never know. The economy is in a slump. Maybe they are desperate for clients.
The owner, who I'll call Mr. Pecs, showed me around. I wanted only the bottom line: the price. But he was intent on getting me firmly on the hook.
"We don't take everyone," Mr. Pecs said. "We only take people we think are a good fit."
He asked if my husband supported me.
-Yes
If he knew I was there?
-No
What I wanted to weigh?
-More that I did at my prime, but less than now
What I thought were the stumbling blocks to my weight loss efforts.
-Time, energy. Desire to eat.
What I ate.
-Good food mostly, but . . .
How often I ate.
-Three meals a day mostly, but . . .
When I last ate.
-Just a little snack in the car on the way over, but . . . (I was still picking pieces of popcorn out of my teeth. He looked grim.)
How much I thought this was worth.
-Well, I remember it was a lot four years ago, but . . .
How much?
-Oh, I don't know . . .
What would you say if I told you $2300 for three months?
-Good-bye.
So that would be $766 a month. About $64 a session if I went three times a week. Bottom line, about $150 a pound.
If I'm worth that much maybe I should start treating myself with more care.
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"You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things."
~Ken Kesey
Comments
Dawn
I love your final comment!! Great.
That's a lovely cow, by the way. :D
I was laughing out loud as I was reading this, cuz I knew just how it'd end. They really do try to pull in the suckers, don't they?
Now who in their right mind could or even would be bothered to spend that much to go to a public, (well all right private yet you'd be with strangers), gym. I'd rather pay someone that much to come to my home and work with me in private. I don't want others to see all my wobbly bits! ;D