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<\/p>\nGrowing up, I was always the scrawny, gangly, gawky nerd kind.\u00a0 I had glasses since I was five years old, I lacked some basic motor skills, and I didn\u2019t have much musculature.\u00a0 So I only took the requisite gym classes and that was that.<\/p>\n
Sometime in the middle of my adulthood, I started going to the gym.\u00a0 In my middle twenties, I got hold of a weight set and pumped a little iron while I lived in my mother\u2019s basement.\u00a0 My stunning physique, or at least my physique and my knowledge of Objectivism and poetry, landed me a hot chick girlfriend who liked to go to the gym.\u00a0 So I started.\u00a0 But first I had to look around for some essential gymming gear.\u00a0 And I had what I needed at hand:<\/p>\n
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When I moved from my aunt\u2019s basement in St. Charles, Missouri, to a mobile home in Jefferson County, I switched from a middle school that had gym in street clothes to a middle school that had a gym in gym clothes.\u00a0 That meant I had to acquire a pair of blue shorts and a lock for the locker.\u00a0 Coach Haug, the gym teacher, sold both, and for $5 I got this green-dialed lock.<\/p>\n
It served me in middle school, in high school, and then got dropped in a set of boxes and\/or drawers until I returned to the gym.\u00a0 I\u2019ve used it at the Mid-County YMCA in St. Louis County, the Edward Jones YMCA, Gold\u2019s Gym, the Webster Groves YMCA, and now the Pat Jones YMCA.\u00a0 It\u2019s guaranteed to be the only green lock in the locker room, which means I\u2019ll never lose my daily locker.\u00a0 And I haven\u2019t had to learn another combination in 25 years.<\/p>\n
The gym bag isn\u2019t that old.\u00a0 As you can see by its side, it commemorates Super Bowl XXIV (24 in American).\u00a0 I didn\u2019t get the bag from the pizza company.\u00a0 Christmas, 1990, was my freshman year in college, and I worked at a grocery store (Gold\u2019s Shop Rite).\u00a0 The Golds were known for their great Christmas party, and 1990 was my first (and only).\u00a0 It was a snowy night in Milwaukee, as so many are in December.\u00a0 Patti C (\u201cDoes the C stand for \u201cCakes?\u201d I\u2019d asked when she started) drove Shawn and I the five blocks to hall the company rented.\u00a0 There, some dancing occurred, and an easily led young me performed the Worm for co-workers with the guys from Produce, who I thought were the coolest guys in the world when I was 18.\u00a0 When I was 19, I was in Produce, and I was right when I was younger.<\/p>\n
During college, I looped the handles of this bag through the back straps of my backpack and the two served as my luggage when I travelled by train between Milwaukee and Missouri.\u00a0 Then it sat in a closet for a couple of years, brought out occasionally to supplement my luggage for travel between Missouri and Milwaukee.\u00a0 Since I\u2019ve gotten back to the gym, it\u2019s born my clothes, the lock, gloves, and magazines exclusively.<\/p>\n
Both of these articles are in good shape, as well as one could expect with fairly frequent use in infrequent bursts of fitness diligence on my part.\u00a0 They\u2019ve lasted me 25 and 20 years respectively; there\u2019s really no reason why they won\u2019t last another 20 or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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