One Snort at McEvil
Written by The Laddie
Last Month a new gym opened up almost around the corner from our apartment. I checked it out and it had all these brand new machines, sleek setup and Les Mills body course series things (if you’re a fan of Dietgirl, she might have mentioned Body Pump and Body Combat, that’s Les Mills). As is usual, you have to pay 20 Euros starting fee and then 19 Euros per month on a one year contract.
The monthly fee at my current gym (McEvil) is 17 Euros. I know it’s a teensy bit more for the new one, but hey, this new gym is two trains and three kilometers closer to home than McEvil! The catch is that I tried to cancel McEvil to join this new gym. I asked one month before my contract was rightfully supposed to end if I could cancel when it ended. The gym girl said:
‘Sorry, but you have to give six weeks notice to cancel your contract and since it’s now four weeks until your contract ends, your existing contact will be extended for another six months, meaning you won’t be able to quit until August’
White noise…Red Face…Hulk MAD!
That’s exactly how they get you! Read the small print, people, don’t fall for it like I did.
So a week or two go by, I have had my aforementioned look at the new gym like a kid pressing his nose on a candy store window and I finally just had it with McEvil.
I was training one night and as I was doing my stomach crunches with my back on the bench, I could see and hear the section that’s blocked off (up to head height) for the women to use their own weights. The section is there so the women will always have these weights (seems the other gym members would take them?). Anyways, three guys walked in – yes, into the women section - and they started talking. I couldn’t hear all they were saying, but at some point I heard a loud sniff and a grunt.
Pardon the pun, but that’s where I draw the line.
It happened in full view of the trainers, who just kept doing that thing where you overly avert your eyes.
I won’t have this kind of thing so close to me…I mean, it’s a powder! What if it’s pushed into the air and I ingest it! Or I use those weights (not that I am allowed) and then for whatever reason transfer it to my mouth!
No, I won’t stand for it.
Wanting to cancel my membership right away, I at first said that I was moving back to the UK – they said that they want written letters from all sorts of places, so that’s a bust!
Thankfully though, I have *cough* suffered a back injury *cough* which has stopped me from being able to go to the gym, according to my doctor. Hopefully this will get me out of McEvil.
The downside to this is that I can’t go to the other gym until McEvil confirm that I have canceled, moneywise it’s just not doable.
With all this, I have fallen behind again terribly and I don’t feel good at all. I need the gym back As Soon As Possible!
