Can't Beat 'em? Join 'em!

My Gym underwent some construction during the winter months that left it looking less like an 80's YMCA and more like an airport lounge. Now the lockers, which have an executive feel to them, no longer need a membership card to be locked. They have a combination pad on them that allows you to choose the combination before locking it. The result is that people don't have to leave the lockers unlocked when they go.

There are approximately 16 lockers in a little cove directly outside the showers. I take a shower every time I go to the gym and therefore like to use those lockers. WRONG! They are always locked. There might be a total of 10 people, including staff, in the gym at 8am, but all 16 shower-side lockers and about 15 of the others will be locked in the ladies locker room. I tried to hint at this treachery to the skonies (skinny phonies) behind the counter, but without a pad and pencil to draw them a picture, the message wasn't getting through.

As if by some miracle, or sign from the universe that I've been a good girl, I found one of the shower-side lockers unlocked. It just so happened to have the same number as the year I was born and I quickly put my stuff in it and locked it up. But after my shower, once my hair was done and I smelled good again, I went to the locker to remove my items and I closed the door. I made it halfway through the locker room and asked myself if I really wanted to risk losing that locker again. I turned around, went back to the locker and entered a code. That one is mine!

If they decide to burst our bubbles tomorrow and unlock all of the lockers I won't cry, but for now, I enjoy being one of the shower-side locker ladies. It is pretty damn sweet.