Weirdness at Champion's Gym

dionysus1999 and I go to the gym together on the weekends, but during the week, I usually just meet up with him there after work, and we come and go at slightly different times.

J. said that when he showed up to the gym without me last week, the young clerk who works the desk asked where "your woman" was, and J. said I was going to meet him there a little later, which I did.

Earlier this week, the clerk came over to me while I was on the treadmill (after J. had left), and he started giving me all kinds of unsolicited workout advice and pushing the "fat burning" pills on me, giving me a free sample.

He was telling me that he just turned 21 and had been drinking too much and putting on a belly, so he was taking the fat-burners and cutting soda pop out of his diet. I reached out a finger and poked him in the gut and said "You don't have a belly."

Then he kind of followed me around my weight stations giving more unsolicited advice. Before that night, I think this kid had maybe said 10 words to me total in the 6 months we've been working out there, so I found it quite odd.

J. thinks that he's macking on me, but I doubt it. The kid knows I'm married, and I'm not exactly the beauty queen type that tempts a buff young body-builder to go for the forbidden fruit. He's really cute, but TWENTY-ONE!!! And just barely at that!

I was thinking he was probably hurting for beer money and is trying to sell me fat-burner pills to get a bigger commission check.

Then, today, had another interesting day at the gym.

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