Greetings All,
Okay, so I have been
working out pretty solid for a little more than 5 months now. It must be showing because now I am starting
to get muscle jokes from my co-workers.
Nothing malicious, just things like “We need Jerry’s muscles” if someone
is lifting something heavy. The other
day at the optometrist, an older lady at the reception desk asked if I was a
cop or maybe a Marine. When I asked why
she would think that, she said “You’ve just got a really athletic build.” That was a strange experience. I have never presented the perception of
physical fitness before. The feeling is
an odd mixture of being exposed and being gratified. I am trying to remain in an objective mindset
though. How much could I really have
gained in only 5 months? It could just
be coincidence.
Another funny
thing happened at a very well know PC components store. I was shopping for a new motherboard and was
asked by a salesman if I needed help. He
was dumbfounded when I began asking about chipsets, memory latency, and PCI-E
interfaces. When I asked why he was so
shocked at my questions, his response was that I just didn’t look like the type
that would ask such in depth questions about motherboards. Unsure how to react to that one, I just smiled
and chuckled flatly. To be fair, I was
wearing my tank-top (seldom a geek fashion) and it was shortly after a grueling
arm workout (so I still had a good pump going), so I wasn’t in much of a
geek mode. Still, is there a “type” that
should or shouldn’t know about the inner workings of a computer? I will be returning to this store in a few
months (when I put on some more size) to test the perception again. That should be a laugh. Maybe I can get my friends to film it. Stay tuned!
Super-Jerry
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