Frank’s most embarrassing moment

Frank had a membership to a 24 hour gym that was about a 15 minute walk from his house and he would’ve cancelled it but he was locked into a 12 month contract so he had another 8 months left. He decided one night after work that the money eating keycard in his wallet shouldn’t go unused, so he drove his car the walkable distance to the gym. When he pulled up into a car space he grabbed his empty bag and had a small towel in one hand and closed the door with his foot. He put the towel in the bag and went to lock the door when he noticed the key still in the ignition. He dropped the bag and grabbed the handle with two hands and began to pull at it, not accepting his fate that the car had locked on him. The turned his back to the car and put his head in his hands, but decided he’d deal with it later. He grabbed his gym bag and walked to the automatic door at the front of the gym. The receptionist looked at him with a large grin as if he could be a possible new customer, but when Frank scanned his key card, her grin sank because the gym already had a hand in his wallet, he was of no benefit to her. Frank slowly steps on to the last remaining treadmill and his walking pace leads into an awkward slow running, with a speed that would be too fast to walk on but too slow to carry a good stride. As soon as he reaches a normal running speed, his towel falls off the drink rest of the machine and falls under his foot as it slams onto the belt and he loses his footing and bangs his head on the arm holds and then again on the base of the machine. He is sent flying about 3 metres backwards and is left lying motionless in the fetal position. After about 12 seconds he comes to and realises that no one has left their exercise and even given him an inch of their attention as he still lay next to a rack of dumbbells. Feeling both a little embarrassed and insulted he rushes out the automatic door and to his car, wanting to get back to home and safety as quick as he can. He grabs the handle to his car and lets out a big sigh. He doesn’t even have a phone to call RACV.

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