J. Clarke wrote:

Steve Knight wrote:


http://matt-massie.com/archives/images/24fitness.jpg
I really cracked up with this picture.


It's funny, but realistically odds are that the building was something else
before it was a gym and it's cheaper to keep the escalators than to tear
them out out and if they're not running then that gives a sense of
disrepair.

OTOH, I like the idea of running them both down--they'd be a workout going
in and when you've worn yourself out in the gym then they'd be a relief
coming out.

That's a good idea. But right now, the place looks like it offers
Segways to its members to enable them to move through their routines
more efficiently.

Which gives us the spectacle of obese people on Segways, spinning around
like Baron Harkonnen from _Dune_...