Your experiences with the YMCA

I’ve belonged to this Y for 15 years. There is a large group of members who do very limited physical activity, some obviously for medical reasons. Others…

There was one guy we called “Naked Couch Guy” because he was always in the locker room, naked, watching TV on the (vinyl) couch. In 12 years I never once saw him in an excercise area. Or even the sauna. As far as we could tell, he’d drive to the Y, strip down, and watch Fox News all day. The highest his heart rate would get was if someone dared suggest changing the channel (or that whatever Fox was reporting wasn’t God’s Own truth).

He apparently died of a heart attack at home. Anyway, I somehow doubt he would’ve walked an extra 50 yards.