These past 2 days I have spent downtown at an exercise/training workshop. I chose to stay at a hotel downtown to avoid the traffic home and also due to the fact that I had to be there at 7 am Saturday morning.
You never know what to expect at workshops, and I always find it a little uncomfortable to go to these things by myself. Believe it or not, I am shy when I am in environments where I don't know anybody.
Day 1 I walk in, take a seat and am immediately greeted by a guy who looks like a total meat head. Big thick neck, bowl haircut, and arms that won't rest at his sides because they are over trained. He introduces himself and starts asking questions and after 5 minutes says, "It was nice talking to you" and then sits down.
Some other guy is telling a story about the military and how many people he has killed and blown up.
A couple of very pregnant very granola women are rubbing their bellies while discussing how hard it is to do a spin class when you are 8 months along!
A couple of other women with fake boobs and Kelly Ripa arms are talking proteins and supplements and I am just sitting there because I am there by myself.
Shortly after the instructor starts another woman walks in by herself and sits down next to me. During the break we make small talk and in mid-conversation we are approached by meat head guy who wants to know if he can interrupt our conversation. Not wanting to be rude, we say sure and this is what he said to me, "Now, did you say you were from Denmark? "Cause I have a business plan I'd like to run by you if that's okay. You see, I've been thinking that there are a lot of women from overseas who would like to come to the U.S to set up a business, but they can't because they don't have a visa. And I think that's a shame, because there are grants out there you can get and it seems like it could be good for our economy and a win win situation for both parts if the women came over here and I could marry them so they could get a green card and open a business."
At this point the woman next to me is trying not to laugh out loud and I kindly explain to meat head that it is very illegal to marry someone for a Green card and that if you get caught you could go to jail. To which he responds, "Well, we would make it look legal, you know, get one of them houses where I would live upstairs and she could live downstairs and when her business is up and running I could marry the next one."
We were trying so hard not to laugh at his "business plan", and when he found out that I was serious that it wasn't legal and he could get caught he sort of retreated to his seat and never spoke to us again.
He did speak to everybody else in the class explaining what a difficult life he has had and how the book that he is writing will be a great movie!!
Seriously!! Why do I attract these kind of people? Well, if nothing else it was amusing.
After the class was over I decided to go to the movies, but quickly made my way back to the hotel when I realized I was in the part of Atlanta that's on the news every night. And not for positive happenings. The boarded up projects and amount of police cars sort of gave it away.
Day 2 was pretty good. Military dude kept saying "That's awesome" and then he would let out a snorty kind of laugh. Meat Head kept quiet for most of the day, but did take off his jeans right in the middle of the class room. He was wearing shorts underneath, but I think we all would have appreciated it if he had gone to the rest room to do so.
The instructor was very entertaining and we had a few good laughs.
Now it's back to the books and hopefully all the stuff I have learned in the past 48 hours will stay put in my brain.
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