Sunday, March 11, 2007

Gym I-Spy

[Disclaimer: My gym is in Shibuya. Shibuya is not the most normal place in Tokyo, which is certainly not the most normal place in the world.]

  • People smoking outside (in the designated smoking area of course) wearing exercise kit: 10 points
  • People who seem to have employed a personal trainer to do most, if not all, of the exercise for them: 10 points
  • Little Orange Freak (as wide as he is tall, and orange in both skin and hair): 10 points
  • Two-inch fingernails: 20 points (+15 for chains or any other decorations)
  • Gender indeterminates (plucked eyebrows, hairclips etc): 20 points
  • Guys in changing room preening before exercise (afterwards is too common to warrant any points, the grooming area is the same size as the showers): 20 points
  • Foreigner exclusion zone (at least one machine free either side, even when busy): 30 points
  • Person asleep on the stretching mats: 30 points
  • Someone actually running, not walking, on a treadmill: 50 points (-30 if they're foreign)
  • Hip-hop Dance Class Members: 50 points (+10 each for: one trouserleg rolled up / bandana / huge gold jewellery)

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