Seen a lot of things…

I have been going to various gyms for a long time, somewhere close to 25 years I guess.  During that quarter century I have seen lots of bizarre things occur in and around them.  Well today was a new first, I arrived at the gym in the middle of a bank robbery.

There is a Bank of America right in front of my gym.  As I pulled in a couple cop cars were there with more streaming in.  As I exited the truck and walked towards the gym door I saw a cop with a shotgun crouch down and sprint between cars, trying to maintain cover.  Evidently this was the real deal, everyone had guns drawn.

I would say 95% of the people at the gym had stopped their workouts and were watching the ordeal from either the sidewalk or along the front glass wall inside.  I was part of the 5%.

Sure as I was doing my 5 minute cardio session to warm up I was keeping tabs on what was going on outside.  I saw no less than 15 people with their phones out, trying to record the events, a testament to just how media starved the world is, it is close to impossible to not having someone shooting video if you do anything as minor as stub your toe. Smart phones make everyone Big Brother.

So anyway I have an atypical reaction in these situations, I’m not a rubber necker.  If things are under control or someone else is handling it I don’t feel the need to stand there and gawk, in fact it bothers me to do so.

If some sort of situation came up where my help was actually needed, then absolutely, I am there, but I am not going to just leech onto a situation just to say I was part of it.  If there weren’t a dozen other people already shooting video yes maybe I would have felt it could possibly be important to do so. As is, after my cardio I went back in the nearly empty free weight area and did my thing.

I realize that my attitude towards car wreck mentality is outside the norm.  It’s always been that way, not sure why.