Still blastin’........

....at the vaunted Canandaigua YMCA.

—Despite having a tiny snippet of my “More overheard at the Canandaigua YMCA” published in the Sunday-Messenger the other day, namely: “‘I’m not related to her at all,’ a teenager said.
‘Yes you are,’ a pretty young thing with a blonde pony-tail said. ‘I’m your mother!’
Mother was sitting on a 36-inch exercise ball, bouncing it across the floor.”
This was slightly reworded, but pretty much as is. Under a headline of “Mommy, dearest;” it also included mention of a young mother walking her baby son outside in a baby-carriage, son dressed as a rabbit.
I send these posts also to the Messenger Ne’er-do-wells, one of whom is Managing-Editor Kevin Frisch (K-man).
I can imagine him saying “Bobbalew, this is fabulous. On the front-page!”
So no intimidation from the YMCA; just the usual glowering and snarling from Amazon-lady and pony-tail.
Things are changing at the vaunted Canandaigua YMCA. Their giant exercise-gym expansion-project is almost complete.
No sign at all of the ancient Nautilus machines*.
Amazon Lady and others were leading guys around discussing where all the new equipment would be put. Pieces of giant new exercise-machines were being wheeled in on dollies. People were assembling glitzy new exercise bikes with video-screens (yep; if it’s on TV, it’s the real thing.) Giant ellipticals got tossed to-and-fro.

*This didn’t matter, as I had a 2 o’clock appointment at the Toyota-store to change the oil in the Bucktooth Bathtub; so didn’t have time for the Nautilus machines. (“The Bucktooth-Bathtub” is our 2005 Toyota Sienna van; called that because it’s white and like sitting in a bathtub, and appears to have a bucktooth on the grill.)