healthy endeavours

[flaviomatani]

Ok, so went to the local Sports Centre one more time. Decided to upgrade to monthly payment membership -and regretted having done that today; had to waste over an hour, fill in a lengthy form (which it later turned out was unnecessary as they already had my details from the previous pay-as-you-go registration, but I had to follow what they told me and  they didn't seem to know what they were doing and contradicted one another at every step) and had to wait for a replacement membership card to be issued (which turned out to be unnecessary because I already .. you get the idea how this went on). At the end of all that i went in exactly as every previous time, do my programme set by one of the instructors, etc....  apart from the awful, awful music pumping out at full volume (which tends to put me in a mood to kill people or something), all was ok so far...   

Then I get a female instructor approach me. 'Excuse me, you cannot be here dressed like that'. 'Oh? I've been dressed like this every time I've been here'. 'Maybe so, but the rules...' I was dressed in normal clothing, black jeans etc. I had been told that it would be 'better' to wear something loose, but I hadn't been told thus far that it was forbidden to be dressed in any other than leisurewear. Oh, yuk, if you know me even a little you will know how I feel about 'leisurewear and  how I responded now that I had been enjoying their sweet R'n'B trash pop at full volume for an hour. I said send the manager, I want to have a word with him about your policies. She sent a security and I repeated the same thing so they sent a manager. A junior one. Sorry, sir, it is company policy. No, sir, we cannot admit you in future dressed in any other than leisurewear. Yes, sir, we have no control over the music which is programmed and sent to us centrally.

I turned around to look for the telescreens and the  Ingsoc banners. I think I may have spotted one or two.

Comments

[flavius-m.livejournal.com]

I'll go with shorts and change there, but there was a point of principle, wasn't there. There was indeed a woman dressed with very very little (although I have to say I didn't complain about that...:P ) and various fashion murder attempts, but hey. Whatever. I'll find out who I have to complain about this and write letter after letter, that'll be fun.