The younger Mr. Wilner and I went to the fancy theater to watch the newest and presumably last Indiana Jones movie today.
It has big reclining chairs and waiters bring full meals to your seat.
There is a premium cost to watching there but I don’t mind because it’s what I paid in L.A. and I like the extra space. Stadium seating and I don’t feel like anyone is sitting on top of me.
Ten minutes into the show some woman walked partway up the aisle and stopped. Every seat is reserved so for a moment I wondered if she was having trouble adjusting to the dark.
After a couple of minutes in which she showed no inclination to move I said loudly, “I am going to tear down the wall” and she meandered up a few more stairs complaining that she didn’t know where to stand.
I figured one of the attendants would help her find her seat and wondered what made me say those words aloud.
Shrugged my shoulders and figured I must need to have a conversation about future plans and got lost in the movie.
It was better than I expected and that was good enough for me as I had been concerned it might be awful. Anytime you feel entertained you can call that a win.
Old Man At The Gym
I have taken off a chunk of weight and want to take off a chunk more. Don’t know if anyone can see it and don’t care because I can feel it.
That is the key element because when you feel positive results it provides motivation to continue and that motivation is important because this is hard.
So after the movie I hit the gym and discovered that I am still a cranky old man. Got through two thirds of my workout and went to use a machine and discovered a kid sitting on it.
I watched and waited to see if he was in between sets or finished and started to get irritated because I could see him screwing around on his phone.
“Can I work in with you?”
“I only have one more set?”
I smiled and nodded and stepped back assuming he would begin lifting and then watched him go back to his phone.
“If you let me work in you can finish sending your message and we can both take advantage of the equipment.”
He looked up at me like I was stupid and repeated he only had one more set.
I surprised myself and told him to get moving or get off.
“I have been here for a solid five minutes and you haven’t done a thing but use your phone. It is cool to take time in between sets, but it is common courtesy to let someone else work in with you.”
There was more edge in my voice than I intended but that motivated movement. Three minutes later I jumped on the machine and wondered if I should have just moved to free weights.
Decided I had mostly done the right thing to help this kid understand that he doesn’t live in a bubble and made a mental note to try and keep the edge out of my voice.
Better to make an effort to be polite and kind, even if I had to ask more than once.
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Finished my workout and headed out to the lot where I discovered someone had parked a McLaren GT next to me…in the handicapped space.
It had a sticker on it and I wondered who was driving it and what sort of physical issue they have. That car probably starts at about $250k and had more than a few Sprouts shopping carts within ding distance.
I have never been in one but have been curious what that ride might be like.
Drove a Ferrari a half dozen or so years ago and had all sorts of fun, but that was on a track.
Wondered again what sort of challenge the driver of the McLaren has going on because it is the kind of car you have to ease yourself into.
As opposed to my Honda where you just open the door and get in. Don’t know what maintenance costs on that car and probably wouldn’t want to drive it regularly unless I could park it like he/she did near shopping carts and not be worried about the cost of repairs.
I was tired when I walked out of the gym but grateful that I was able to do it. Like I said, I haven’t a clue whether the McLaren driver has a temporary physical issue or permanent and reminded myself to be grateful that overall things are good with me.
Not everyone has that.
Same Font
I keep telling myself I ought to make an effort to use the same font on the picture quotes so there is a uniform look and style here.
I keep reminding myself to do many things but not all of them get done. Sometimes I think that might be a self discipline problem and sometimes I think it is more of a time problem.
Never enough time in the day to do everything that ought to be done, let alone needs.
So we set priorities and push to get the important stuff done and think about whether the stuff that doesn’t happen ought to be moved up on the ladder to a position of more prominence.
Reminds me it might be time to tear down some more walls, got things to do and roadmaps to lay out.
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