I get a call Friday afternoon by a rather panicked friend asking if I’m busy.

Her -“Are you at work?”

Me - “Nope, not on contract at the moment.”

Her -“Can I ask you a huge favour, I need someone to be my pretend fitness client”

This lead to an hour long session of me being, Judy, a 30 year old out of shape woman stepping into a gym for the first time. Laughs, doing odd things to gym equipment and being rather impressed with a friends knowledge about personal fitness ensued. 

Of course it had it’s low points. When I was changing at the end I had this rather old man come out of the shower and stand right in my face as I’m tying my shoes. Naked. Him facing me… I really don’t want to paint it more vividly then that. So I’m trying to move over to give him room and he’s following me. I’m thinking a) I’m not impressed with your package b) I don’t swing that way and c) this is highly inappropriate. Needless to say I was able to wrap up shoe tying in record time.