Mr. 900 Needs Help and Baby Butt Branding

You know how I was against all “butt branding?” In this one case (pictured) I make an exception. And I hate to break it to Mensley but Little Miss Cutie Pie over there has already told me that I was her favorite at the office.

On to the Post

Tonight I was doing squats. I hate/love doing squats. Seriously… I hate … and love … doing them. Hate the actual exercise but I save it toward the end of legs night because it’s my favorite exercise. I know … I’m a puzzle.

I bring that up because tonight while I was doing this hate/love exercise I hear Mr. 900 somewhere over to my right cussing with loud gasps of exasperation. He was doing chest flys with 15 pound dumb bells. Apparently that was too much.

poor thing.

Recently I wrote about Mr. 900 and his ability to bounce around the gym at amazing rates and make sure everyone knows exactly what was on his mind. Since the original post I see him every time I go work out. One day he was flying by and he nodded to me, “Whassup man!?” and before my “not much, how are you?” could reach his ears he was well beyond the speed of sound and out of range.

Again, I am an unabashed extroverted eaves dropper but you don’t have to eaves drop with him. He just lets everyone know what he thinks whether he is actually talking to them or not. Eventually, I have found out he is 44, doesn’t really care for the music selection of the gym (which I enjoy by the way) and never worked out consistently before in his life.

::: lightbulb goes off with a ding :::

That’s why he asks all these questions and harasses the trainers … he really doesn’t know squat (get it squat … cause I mentioned squats … never-mind.) Could he be insecure and in a Mid life crisis? Nah… I think he might be a little too secure with himself. Doesn’t matter, I don’t know but I hope he doesn’t get discouraged. It was interesting that this was my concern for him tonight and I will turn it into a prayer.

I know that I am WAY younger than him (by four years) so I know that the patterns we old guys develop could, Lord willing, seriously add years to our lives. Let’s pray that he is not the type of guy that gets really worked up and excited for a few months and then bails. He already seems to be a little ornery (something I can relate to on occasion) so let’s pray that doesn’t get the better of him.

He isn’t overweight or anything but if 15 pound chest-fly exercises are causing that much hyper-ventilation and verbalization … he’s got some work to do.

Now, look at that cute little girl in the picture again. Every time I see her she just smiles and coos and we just talk and talk and talk. She love Sarah Palin and thinks the Democrats should repent for casting aspersions against the Bush administration for being the root of all evil. Such a smmmmart little girl :).