Clucking

Yesterday morning, after dropping the kids off at school, I made my way to Curves for a workout.  Going first thing in the morning is new for me.  When I was working I'd go straight to work after dropping off the kids, then exercise after work.  Since I got off at noon, it was perfect and Curves is almost empty that time of day.  The mornings are a different story.  I thought maybe there would be more of my generation there exercising before work, but no, it's pretty much the retired crowd, and they cluck.

They cluck so much sometimes they forget to move to the next station as the lovely voice instructs us to over the wonderful muzak.  Yesterday they were clucking about the Superbowl.

Woman #1:  I'm so glad the Saints won, you know because of Katrina and everything.

Woman #2:  Oh me too.

Woman #1:  At the beginning the guys kept talking about how great Peyton Manning is and how great the Colts were, I thought that was so mean.

Woman #3:  I didn't care I just watched for the advertisements, Oh and the halftime show, but I wish they would have focused more on the light show than the band... That light show was something.

Woman #1:  The Who has been around for a long time, since the 60's.  They were quite the band then.  I was just shocked they played the three theme songs to the CSI shows, New York, Miami and Las Vegas.  That really surprised me.

Woman #3:  Which ads did you all like?

Woman #1:  I really like all the Doritoes ones.

Women #2,3 & 4:  Oh yeah, me too.

Woman #3:  The Oprah one was pretty cute.

Woman #1:  I was really thinking about why The Who would play those CSI songs, then it hit me the Superbowl is on CBS and so are the CSI shows.  So I guess they made them play those songs.

Woman #4:  I'm pretty sure The Who wrote those songs.

At this point I almost busted out laughing.  It was all I could do to breathe and not laugh.  They continued on about Mass, luncheons, doctor appointments, meal preparing and just about anything else you can think of.  It really makes my workout go by faster listening to all that clucking.

Comments

[Meg B]

I love listening to conversations like that. That's brilliant, especially the bit about the theme songs.

And, Iliked the doritoes commericals, too. Especially the one with the dog and the No Bark collar.

[Asthmagirl]

What is this CSI you speak of?

(That convo was hilarious!)

[Mental P Mama]

The world is full of morons;)

[Tracey of These Nine Acres]

Too funny. Do you think we will be like that in oh, say, 30 years?

[The Incredible Woody]

That coincidence was amazing;)

[Lisa]

Wow! Did The Who really write all those songs? (That's a joke! I've actually seen The Who in concert! Woo-Who!)

Crazy bats ... but at least they're wacky talk was blog fodder.

Good for you for going to Curves on a regular basis. I've been so bad that I don't even walk the dog lately. (Although that's because we now have TWO pit bull mixes and I'm not willing to take the chance of confronting a fox, deer or even another human then suffering the consequences when I try to hold back two maniacal pits. Well, that's a pretty good excuse anyway.)

[phd in yogurtry]

I was *going* to say that ear phones are the perfect antidote to unwanted clucking - but if your workout goes by faster when listening? We don't want to mess with THAT!