What's on Your Mind

[Jay]

So I went to the gym. That guy was there too. He was on the other side of the gym doing his cardio with elliptical machine whilst I was on the other side of the gym doing my own cardio on a treadmill.

Enough with cardio, I pressed the Stop button and stepped down from the treadmill. I went to another exercise machine to train my calves. The guy was still far away on the other side of the gym doing his thing.

I concentrated on my calf workout; staring down at my calves whilst doing muscle contraction. Finished. I looked up. There he was. He has changed his exercise machine. He was slightly closer to me but still a bit far. Okay, I thought.

I looked down again at my calves to do second set of muscle contraction. Okay, done. I looked up and he has moved to another machine, which is located closer to my machine. Hmm.

I looked down again. Did the same contraction thingy. I looked up and bam, there he was. He has moved to an exercise machine next to mine. He flexed his biceps several times between every set (He did four sets with the machine).

I was like, "Okay ..."

He didn't flex whatsoever when he was training with the other machines.

Anyway we didn't have a long chat today as both of us were busy training. But we did chat. A short one.

Probably means nothing but I thought it was funny.

I was informed that he has left the gym permanently.

He has been missing in action for quite awhile and then showed up unexpectedly for one last time on last Monday.

I was surprised to see him because I haven't seen him for quite some time He was talking to one of the gym personal trainers.

I proceeded to do my cardio on a treadmill. He showed up behind me on the last 20 minutes of my cardio (There's a big mirror behind the treadmill). He just stood there; flexing here and there for 5 minutes. I didn't stop to say hi because I was in the middle of my workout.

I wanted to say hi to him after I finished my cardio but he was surrounded by other guys. So I decided not to bother him. I continued to do a tire flip workout.

As I was exiting the gym, I saw him talking to another gym member. He saw me; he looked at me. My mistake as I didn't wave goodbye to him.

That was the last time I saw him.