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Every Thursday, at the gym I work out at, there is a low impact aerobics class that ends at 7:30pm. Usually that is the time when I'm doing my SMFR, activation and stretches and the Stretching Area. Now, the Stretching Area is rather small. At any one time, there is only enough room for 4 people, and usually people will spill to the walk-way.

At 7:30pm, after the aerobics class finishes, this 50-ish lady whom I will henceforth call Madam B, will emerge from the class and head to the Stretching Area. She will take 2 mats and lay them down side by side. 5 minutes later, the class instructor, will appear.

Both of them will then start to do their stretchings, only Madam B's main objective isn't in stretching but to chit-chat with the instructor. She will start yakking and yakking away like there is no tomorrow, mostly about the other people in the aerobics class - how some of them can't do the turns, how this girl finds the moves difficult, how the instructor should introduce more difficult moves, etc. She almost never ever stretches. Or stop yakking.

For the love of god, if you just want to chit-chat, please use the lounge area. It has comfortable leather sofas and lots of space. It is fucking irritating to hear someone yak yak yak beside you. Non-stop. For. An. Extended. Period. Of. Time. It is so irritating that sometimes I wish I have the guts to hit her with the foam roller until she pengsan.

The other day, the Stretching Area was rather crowded. There was only space for 1 more person, which the instructor took. She spilled over to the work-out area on my right. I ended up sandwiched in between them. Madam B decided that she still wanted to chit-chat with me in between them. OMFG. Fortunately, the music in the gym was loud enough that their replies to each other were mostly HUH? So Madam B gave up (FINALLY!). I was sniggering so hard inside.

So Madam B proceeded to do her stretching. But as I mentioned earlier, she hardly ever stretches. So that day I observed her just to see if she would actually stretch since she couldn't yak. All she did was bend forward with legs straight to sretch both hamstrings, bend forward with left leg straight to stretch left hamstring, bend forward with right leg straight to stretch right hamstring. When you think she had finished with her hamstrings, she stretched out both legs and bend forward again. Yes, you guess it - stretch her hamstrings AGAIN. Wash, rinse, repeat. So for 15-20 mins, all she stetched were hamstrings. How fucking long does one need to stretch those fucking hamstrings??? Jesus.

Finally she stood up and told the instructor that she had finished and would head to the shower first. And she would see him later for dinner.

If I have been observing correctly, she follows the instructor to which ever branch he conducts his class in.

God, I pray that the Gym would reschedule this aerobics class to another time slot.