Kick Box Girl

I teach aerobics at the local gym. A while back I walked into the upstairs aerobics room to open the stereo cabinet and get ready for class. In the room already was a pudgy young woman, barefoot, in kickbox attire, apparently practicing kick boxing moves. Swift kicks, sharp jabs, fierce looks, karate chops, Hi-Yah! She apparently has high self esteem since she knows martial arts.

I continued to set up my place at the front of the room, step, risers, weights. the young woman continues to practice, oblivious to obvious preparations for a class.

My class filters in, approximately 10 women, various ages, sizes, shapes. We are all familiar with one another. We greet. No one knows the kick boxer girl. We eye kick box girl. Kick boxer continues to practice.

My class begins, I have my microphone tuned up, the music on loud, I begin with my cues. Kick boxer girl continues to practice, jab, thrust, chop-chop, and my ladies are eyeing her curiously. Their focus is distracted. I must get rid of kick box girl.

I lead my class in warm up. Ooops, so sorry, my class needs to march up 1-2-3-kick, right in front of where Kick Box Girl is practicing. Kick Box Girl has to stop in mid kick and wait. She looks a little fuming. She moves from the side of the room to the back of the room. Ooops, my girls have to grape vine 4 times and face the back of the room to walk up 1-2-3-kick, and, oh so sorry, they once again must march in front of practicing Kick Box Girl, who once again must wait and fume. We are taking back our space for our class. Kick Box Girl must die!

Kick Box Girl has no more room to practice. Kick Box Girl catches a clue and leaves the room.

My territory is secure.

The point of this story is that some people at the gym are either thoughtless or self important. It MUST have been obvious to this Kick Box Girl that we were having a regularly scheduled structured class, yet she continued to do her kicking and flailing and disrupting as though what she was doing were way more important then us having our class.

A few weeks later I was down in the weight room, where men and women were lifting weights, in somewhat confined areas, and who is there but Kick Box Girl, kicking away, and barely missing all the people with her fancy moves.

Some people never get the picture.