Somehow there's a September 1967 issue of Car & Driver on the magazine rack at my gym

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
02/11/2019 at 11:06 • Filed to: None

Reading at the gym is anathema to me, but I know there are many Olds who like to sit back and relax with a book or magazine while they slowly plod along through their “cardio.” Maybe one of them donated this magazine, which didn’t even have a mailing label on it. I almost stole it.

DISCUSSION (13)

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Textured Soy Protein
02/11/2019 at 11:16

I am in no way “a fitness guy” but when I am at the gym, I am there to stave of death, not read a novel. I am shocked when some dude whips out a Clive Cussl er book. How can you even read while moving like that.

fintail > Textured Soy Protein
02/11/2019 at 11:22

Something you can get at a flea market for a couple bucks, but I’d still have borrowed/stolen it.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Textured Soy Protein
02/11/2019 at 11:23

my wife wanted to get a gym membership for the winter . i’m like why would i want to drag my as out to a gym when i have a set fo weights, a treadmill and a TV with endless youtube workouts in the basement ? She hates the cold. Going downstairs is so much easier.

Textured Soy Protein > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
02/11/2019 at 11:26

Usually if someone breaks out a full-on book, they hold it in their hands while lazily pedaling along on an exercise bike. I’ve definitely seen lots of folks who walk on treadmills with magazines propped up on the control panels though.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Textured Soy Protein
02/11/2019 at 11:26

Once upon a time, when Mrs Doorhandle was girlfriend Doorhandle, we used to frequent a sandwich shop called Lamborghini’s. The food was good and most importantly, they kept a stack of vintage car mags on every table. Miss that place dearly.

Textured Soy Protein > OPPOsaurus WRX
02/11/2019 at 11:28

My gym is not quite a mile from my house, I use a bunch of stuff there that I could never hope to fit in my basement , and there’s a Halal Guys in the same strip mall for post-workout falafel.

Textured Soy Protein > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
02/11/2019 at 11:41

When I was a kid, my dad took my brother and I to a barber shop called the Yankee Clipper. It was owned and staffed by a scruffy old dude named Jerry who had a huge pot belly with no hope of ever being contained by a belt, so he wore suspenders with his jeans. His “waiting area” included a pool table with a framed topless photo of Marilyn Monroe on the wall. Except instead of just a photo, it was a promotional poster from an ice distributor.

Pretty sure it was not the environment where you were supposed to take your grade school aged sons to get their hair cut, but it had a certain charm. When I was in high school, my mom used an incident where one or more of my siblings got head lice as an excuse to make my dad switch barbers.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Textured Soy Protein
02/11/2019 at 11:44

apart from the lice, Jerry’s barber shop sounds awesome.

Textured Soy Protein > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
02/11/2019 at 11:46

I’m fairly certain he was not the source of the lice, but my mom just was waiting for her opening to get us to quit going there.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Textured Soy Protein
02/11/2019 at 11:57

th e one that i would go to is about 3.5 miles away. it would have been nice, specially since they have a pool and my pool is a giant ice cube.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Textured Soy Protein
02/11/2019 at 12:04

Nice. Next time you’re there, you should just ask someone at the desk if you can have it. I’m sure they’ll let you take it.

ttyymmnn > Textured Soy Protein
02/11/2019 at 12:41

You’re not stealing it. You’re borrowing it long term.

FLmanisback > Textured Soy Protein
02/11/2019 at 14:01

Sounds like a less reputable version of my buddy Rick. He’s been cutting our family’s hair for 20 years. His shop is a combo of surf shop and rockabilly greaser. Whenever he sees decently priced vintage ridding magazines, he buys them up. Fun to look through and dream. The ads include a company in California selling ‘clean, used four speed transmission kits’.

The do it yourself stuff is even better: Chop you 32 Ford at home. Detailed instructions:

1. Decide how much you want to chop it.

2. Cut that much out of the roof.

3. Weld it back together with coat hangers and a torch.

4. Lead and paint