I joined a gym last week.
I look forward to my workouts.

There are un-written rules at my gym:
Do not make eye contact.
Talk to no-one except the front desk person but only briefly to her/him.
If you must look at someone, use your peripheral vision.
Every one must wear ear-buds.
Ha!

In my gym, every one is in their own world.
I really like that!

The characters that work out in my gym are fascinating to watch
and to listen to.

I have never seen so many huge muscles nor have I ever heard that
much moaning and groaning. (and I'm not even looking or listening,
even with ear buds and side vision, I hear and see a lot)!

These are the oddest, most colorful people I've ever seen.
Weird, odd, colorful but very, very, serious about working out!

Serious workouts is a match for me. I know, I'm weird, odd and colorful
too but when it comes to working out, I just want to stay my focus
and not be blabbering!

I use 4 machines and then head directly for the aerobics room to do my
45 minute kata in the zone routine.

Today, I saw one of my neighbors using some equipment to my left.
I spotted him using my peripheral vision, of course.
I'm really good at noting how people move and identifying them through
their body movements.

He is an old retired gentleman, who walks his dog on our block.

Well, I just kept looking straight ahead and continued my reps
on the biceps curl machine.

I noticed that he was finishing as he grabbed his towel and
walked my way.

He stopped in front of me and said:
"Hello".

I couldn't believe it, someone was breaking the "rules"!

I continued watching him with my outside vision and said....
"I'm concentrating, just a minute".

Then I looked up and said:
"Hello".

He said:
"That's all, I just wanted to say, hello".

I smiled as he walked away and thought.
He just broke the rules and so did I.
Oh well!