Saturday, January 23, 2010

What happens in the sauna, stays in the sauna


Well, at least it usually does. As some of you know I am trying everything in my power, with the exception of going to the doctor, to get rid of my sinus infection. Tonight after work i headed down to the clubhouse to take a sauna as I have every evening this week. But this time was a little different. I was wearing my usual t-shirt, workout pants, and my fuzzy hooded winter jacket. I walked into the building and immediately heard a booming voice downstairs. I headed down the stairs and by the time I got to the bottom i seen the man responsible. He was about six feet tall, average build, bald, and wearing sweats. He looked like almost every gym teacher/football coach i'd ever seen. He was playing ping pong with his fifteen-ish year old son. I continue walking to the sauna and turn it on. Then i turn right back around to go sit down on the couch in the other room. But to get there I have to walk right by the boy and his father. The father is staring at me in the same way most strangers do when i walk by, so i give him the "how's it going" nod and he just continues to stare. This all took a matter of seconds and was the kinda thing i deal with on a day to day basis so i didn't give it another thought. Now i'm sitting on the couch texting, sniffing my stuffy/dripping nose, checking my email, and generally just kickin back waiting for the sauna to be ready. After a few minutes go by I get up and head to the locker room, ignoring the father and son, and hang up my jacket. Now i'm heading to the sauna. I'm sitting there trying to ignore all the extremely loud commotion outside, mostly from the father, which takes a good 5-10 minutes. Then about 15 minutes into it i'm finally in the zone and just about to break a sweat when all the sudden i hear a knock at the sauna door. I say "yeah" and the door opens. It's the father! So I say "hey, what's up" and he replies with "heywhatchawhereyouchmooinlineowthere" So it might have just sounded that way because i was in my zone and preoccupied with the fact that he was holding the door open, completely ruining my sauna experience! Having no clue what he actually said I replied with "what was that?" and he replied with "hewheregchya doin a line back there" then i said "was i doing a line?" then he started to ramble something about his son mentioning how he heard me making sniffing noises earlier. It was at this point that i put it all together and realized that he was asking me if I had been snorting lines of cocaine earlier in the next room while he was playing ping pong with his son! SERIOUSLY!?!? So i said "no" with my best "are you fucking serious" face on. Then he began to stumble and said "oh" and i immediately let him know that not only was i not doing that but I have never done cocaine! Even more shocked by that he said "really?" and i replied "nope, never have" He finally started to back away saying stuff like "oh" and "ok" and "i just seen the light was on and my son blah blah" and I, being way to fucking nice, said "alright, take care, have a good night" Not to let this guy ruin it I just brushed it off and continued my sauna. Now i don't know if he was just stereotyping me because i'm so sexy, with all my rad tattoos and piercings or if he is just a retired disco hop head who was just concerned that maybe i didn't know that being under the influence of cocaine while in a sauna is very dangerous and honestly, i don't care. I know some of you can relate to this kind of situation while the rest of you probably couldn't even began to imagine something like this ever happening to you. Either way i thought you might enjoy....

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