the IDIOT

i’ve seen some inept wheezlesquawnks in my day, but the management and front desk crew at the sport and health club in waldorf MD is composed of walking, talking gorfs.

they have this sign-up book for trial members at the front. it’s right on the edge of the front desk, at your fingers. on each sheet of that book is a page with three slots — almost like a receipt book. apparently, they rip each sheet off when three people have filled it in. but until then (for hours sometimes, presumably), if you give them your information, it’s sitting there in the open — name, address, phone numbers.

so let’s say i’m a stalker or rapist type, and i’m working out when i see through the glass some unbelievable piece of ass walk in and sign up for a trial membership. as she’s on the machines, i go over and hit on her. she’s not charmed. she realizes, as most people do, that i’m a total dweeb. she rejects my inept attempt to socialize, and… well this pisses me off! “i’ll fix her wagon,” i mutter under my gin-soaked breath. i’ll teach her to reject dr. dipshit!

so i go up to the front desk and pretend to read some special offer crap, or whatever. i memorize her name, address, and her numbers (which, if one’s work, could probably give me her work address as well). they’re still there, because they stay there as long as a sheet’s not filled up. you know the rest. worst case, she’s raped and murdered, because the wrong person was given an opportunity, for absolutely no reason other than sloppiness and mental indolence. or she could just be stalked, which totally blows.

is this a likely outcome? of course not. but that’s not the test. the test is how much liability is offsetting whatever convenience comes from their boneheaded system — a system which, of course, i was assured amid my obvious disgust was “our policy”. ha! the old “policy” gambit. you can excuse whole dumbbell operations under that single word.

i’ll tell you my policy: if i ever hear that a guest or member of sport and health falls victim of the total disrespect for privacy exuded by every single worthless motherfucker at that desk tonight, i will happily volunteer my services as witness for the plaintiff, and i will rock. i will name names, i will recall details, and i will convey to that jury the exact “i don’t give a shit” attitude of each staffer i interacted with. and they can keep their per diem. it’s on the house.

this is how the average numbnutz american thinks these days. if nothing has happened, there need be no assessment of risk against benefit. possibilities and unnecessary risks are off the radar. sound policy be damned. i’ve seen this at a few stores recently. all they know is that they haven’t run into a problem. therefore, it must good policy.

needlessly exposing private information of others is never sound policy. frankly, i’m astounded that any woman would sign that sheet and walk away. if the relationship with a business begins with them showing so little care for their customers’ safety, the odds are that it’s not going to get better further in.

david lee roth was dead on target when he came up with that goofy m&m contract rider for van halen. his thinking (he alleges, and i think he’s smart enough that it’s at least partly true) was that if that one, seemingly unimportant detail was missed, it served as a flag. according to him, when the m&m’s weren’t handled correctly per the contract, they knew to check the electric, rigging — anything provided by the promoter that was critical for safety.

in the same way, though i wasn’t thinking about david lee roth when i declined to have anything more to do with the waldorf sport and health club, i don’t trust those weasels to check the bolts on machines, replace drive belts, or do anything else that sloppy people are known to miss.

Waldorf Sport & Health Club
90 Post Office Road
Waldorf, MD 20602
Telephone: 301-870-7859
Fax: 301-638-0038

General Manager: Marcus Neal
Membership Director: Ben Rivera

Tags: stalking

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