Not one for New Year's Resolutions me. However, I did recognise over Christmas, partially due to the excess of the season, that if I didn't do something about my weight and health, I'd be unlikely to receive my full quota of future turkey dinners.
Two weeks ago I checked my local authority website and discovered I needed to order a Leisure Card before registering with my local council gym. About a week later I get news that my card was ready so I phoned the gym to book an induction only to be told that I had to turn up in person to do that.
Today I popped to the gym, got my card and was handed a form to fill out in order to book an induction. I ticked the boxes for yes where it said do you have back problems and handed it back.
'Oh, you'll have to get this other form signed by your doctor to register with us, it's just to cover you'
(I think he meant 'it's just to cover us')
Despite the fact that two weeks had now passed since I decided to change my lifestyle and knowing that other's may well have given up by this point, I tootled along to the surgery and cheerfully ask if they'd get my doctor to sign the form.
'Our doctors won't sign these forms'
'Pardon?'
'Our doctors won't sign these forms, they think it's a waste of time'
'But without the form I can't use the gym'
'Sorry, the doctor won't sign the form, I can ask the practice manager...'
'So what you're saying is, if I'm unfit and need a doctor to say it's safe for me to go to the gym I won't be allowed to go to the gym because my doctor won't say I can go, even if it IS safe, because taking the time to say this is a waste of his time?'
'Um, yes'
'So, who exactly can go to the gym then? Just fit people?'
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