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petsfed
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amigo25zmy wrote: You are at the gym at least 15 minutes before its open on a regular basis.
As someone who works at a climbing wall, let me simply say that I hate you for arbitarily making me feel bad for showing up on time (which is to say, the same time you got there). You could've left 15 minutes later, but no, you had to be there first, and nothing makes a customer service rep feel worse than a customer they are not allowed to help yet.
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amigo25zmy
Mar 7, 2009, 4:31 PM
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petsfed wrote: amigo25zmy wrote: You are at the gym at least 15 minutes before its open on a regular basis. As someone who works at a climbing wall, let me simply say that I hate you for arbitarily making me feel bad for showing up on time (which is to say, the same time you got there). You could've left 15 minutes later, but no, you had to be there first, and nothing makes a customer service rep feel worse than a customer they are not allowed to help yet.
Open sooner. Our gym doesn't open til 12 during the week, 10 on weekends. They need to open by 9 at least.
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petsfed
Mar 7, 2009, 10:43 PM
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amigo25zmy wrote: petsfed wrote: amigo25zmy wrote: You are at the gym at least 15 minutes before its open on a regular basis. As someone who works at a climbing wall, let me simply say that I hate you for arbitarily making me feel bad for showing up on time (which is to say, the same time you got there). You could've left 15 minutes later, but no, you had to be there first, and nothing makes a customer service rep feel worse than a customer they are not allowed to help yet. Open sooner. Our gym doesn't open til 12 during the week, 10 on weekends. They need to open by 9 at least.
I'm not the manager.
And if the gym can't afford to pay somebody to cover expanded hours, you're just gonna have to deal with it. Managers expand the hours after it gets crowded during regular hours, not because a few members (who are not typically the primary revenue source at a gym) want to be there earlier.
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zeke_sf
Mar 8, 2009, 12:05 AM
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amigo25zmy wrote: You walk into a bar and pay more attention to the walls then the women.
I'm sensing an unhealthy trend in this thread.
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bjohnson2
Mar 8, 2009, 12:14 AM
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fist wrote: You bring shoes and chalk on non-climbing trips, just in case.
When there's no such thing as a "non-climbing trip"!
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amigo25zmy
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petsfed wrote: amigo25zmy wrote: petsfed wrote: amigo25zmy wrote: You are at the gym at least 15 minutes before its open on a regular basis. As someone who works at a climbing wall, let me simply say that I hate you for arbitarily making me feel bad for showing up on time (which is to say, the same time you got there). You could've left 15 minutes later, but no, you had to be there first, and nothing makes a customer service rep feel worse than a customer they are not allowed to help yet. Open sooner. Our gym doesn't open til 12 during the week, 10 on weekends. They need to open by 9 at least. I'm not the manager. And if the gym can't afford to pay somebody to cover expanded hours, you're just gonna have to deal with it. Managers expand the hours after it gets crowded during regular hours, not because a few members (who are not typically the primary revenue source at a gym) want to be there earlier.
That makes sense. And I guess there's no way to allow members in without supervision, thats just trouble waiting to happen.
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dead_horse_flats
Mar 8, 2009, 4:18 AM
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When you are willing to tolerate a psychotic paranoid wanker for a belay.
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majid_sabet
Mar 8, 2009, 4:31 AM
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You Know youre obsessed with rock climbing
when you marry a retard rock climber
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rockie
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Everywhere you go you want to climb or boulder that wall you see as you go past, or you at least observe it to predict how climbable it is.
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caleb_danner
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you read TR as top rope on a profs office hours insead of Tuesday Thursday
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scienceguy288
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the_leech wrote: boymeetsrock wrote: dingus wrote: the_leech wrote: dingus wrote: (and they all moved away from him there on the bench...) DMT The "Group W" bench? The Oldsters will out. Hehe DMT ...and I said littering, and they all moved away from me there on the group W bench. So I added and causing a general nuisance, and they moved back ad we was havin' a good time there on the group W bench.  They was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one -- the meanest father raper of them all -- was coming over to me and he was mean and ugly and nasty and horrible and all kind of things, and he sat down next to me and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Littering."
"Kids, this-piece-of-paper's-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-
know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-
you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-
officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and talked for
forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had
fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there,
and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it
down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the
following words:
("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")
I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to
ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm
sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench
'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women,
kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug."
Arlo is the man.
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dingus
Mar 18, 2009, 2:56 PM
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I listen to a lot of different music. I like modern rock, the stuff you'll hear on pop radio today. I like the rock hip hop fusion too. I detested the 80s Big Hair Music and always will.
But being an old man my roots are firmly planted in the 60s and 70s. I remember seeing the naked dude on the cover of Life (Woodstock).
The folk movement of the 60s had a powerful influence in rock.
So a dope smokin friend of my brother's introduced me to Arlo, to John Prine and a host of other riff raff.
I like a lot of you fell in love with Alice's Restaurant and knew every word, every note (like American Pie too).
I saw Arlo and Prine play together, in Stockton of all places, in 1989. Arlo had his long trademark hair - but it had all gone white.
Prine was hitting on all cylinders that night. It was great, to see Arlo play his signature songs (Coming in from London, over the pole, flying in a big airliner!).
ANYWAY... many years later I found my daughter delving 'into Dad's music.' She's her own woman and listens to what she likes.
One day I noticed she had Alice's Restaurant on her iPod. And she knew every word, every note.
A generational connection like that is cool. Gabby and I can speak in Seinfeld and we can also speak in Alice's Restaurant.
Yall know exactly what I mean, dontchya?????
But I didn't come here to talk about that. I came to talk about the draft.
DMT
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boulder86
Mar 18, 2009, 3:28 PM
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you just read every single post on this discussion and laughed to yourself because you know you've done that.
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krusher4
Mar 18, 2009, 3:31 PM
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clews wrote: rockhound71 wrote: When you forego snowboarding on a snow day for climbing on plastic instead!  agreed... i've made it out once this year
after 15 years of never missing a ski/board season, I haven't gone up this year to avoid injury during my winter training.
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boymeetsrock
Mar 18, 2009, 3:40 PM
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dingus wrote: But I didn't come here to talk about that. I came to talk about the draft. DMT
You remember "climbing" this is a "thread" about "climbing.'
LOL, not directed at you Dingus. Gud story BTW. I hope to share these same realizations as a father one day.
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dingus
Mar 18, 2009, 3:44 PM
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This is a thread about obsessions.
"He wants it? HE GETS IT! Now I don't like it any more than you men."
DMT
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dumbsocrates
Mar 18, 2009, 4:34 PM
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You have an EXCEL spreadsheet that calculates your monthly paycheck into climbing gear: 1x set of nuts, 1x ice tool, 10x biners + 5x slings = 5 draws, 2x #4, 2x #3, etc.
You wear nylons only because they are great for making chalk balls.
You piss off your mother, who has just flown in miles to see you, her only child, for Mother's Day because there's excellent climbing weather. Your logic: when you come back in the afternoon, it still will be Mother's Day! (btw... She's still pissed off about that!... Not my fault Mother's Day comes on a Saturday).
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nilcarborundum
Mar 18, 2009, 4:43 PM
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dumbsocrates wrote: (btw... She's still pissed off about that!... Not my fault Mother's Day comes on a Saturday).
Maybe she's pissed because you missed Mother's Day completely....
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dumbsocrates
Mar 18, 2009, 4:47 PM
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Does it come on a Saturday? Or maybe it was her birthday? That's serious.... the POINT IS if it's a good climbing day, you go climb! And she should understand!
oooh... one more: Your idea of a romantic date is watching climbing videos!
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scienceguy288
Mar 19, 2009, 4:06 AM
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boymeetsrock wrote: dingus wrote: But I didn't come here to talk about that. I came to talk about the draft. DMT You remember "climbing" this is a "thread" about "climbing.'
Not getting the joke?
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spikeddem
Mar 19, 2009, 7:43 AM
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majid_sabet wrote: You Know youre obsessed with rock climbing when you marry a retard rock climber
I'm REALLY not a fan of saying "FAIL," as I think it is so utterly unoriginal. However, perhaps there truly is a time and a place for everything.
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nice
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boymeetsrock
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scienceguy288 wrote: boymeetsrock wrote: dingus wrote: But I didn't come here to talk about that. I came to talk about the draft. DMT You remember "climbing" this is a "thread" about "climbing.' Not getting the joke?
Apparently YOU aren't getting the joke. Dingus did.
"Remember Alice? This is a song about Alice." (Altered only slightly to fit the thread.) 
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scienceguy288
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boymeetsrock wrote: scienceguy288 wrote: boymeetsrock wrote: dingus wrote: But I didn't come here to talk about that. I came to talk about the draft. DMT You remember "climbing" this is a "thread" about "climbing.' Not getting the joke? Apparently YOU aren't getting the joke. Dingus did. "Remember Alice? This is a song about Alice." (Altered only slightly to fit the thread.)
Ah, sorry 'bout that. Didn't quite get the connection at first.
Well here's one for ya:
When somebody says that you HAVE to fix the roof this weekend and can't go climbing you "wanna kill...Kill...KILL!"
Pleast note that this is NOT a threat. Listen to Alice's Restaurant by Arlo guthrie and then you will understand half of these posts.
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