After my workout, I arrive to my locker to find a 75 year old guy closing the locker right next to mine.<\/p>\n

“Nevah fayls! Emptah room and we’re the only two guys heyah.” His voice is a trifecta of decades of liquor and smoking, Italian and possible mild stroke.<\/p>\n

“Ain’t it always the way,” I vapidly offer.<\/p>\n

“When Iwazza coming heyah back garbleaglrerlajz churfff crarkle…” He’s speaking fast and since his voice is like sandpaper over rocks I can only catch every other word. “It waz alwaahzy with da hurrf and the veins.”<\/p>\n

He’s closed his locker and is lacing up his shoes. He doesn’t stop. He’s a pleasantly enough guy and I let him go, but he’s the kind of talker who won’t let you interject anything, not a “oh dear!” even…<\/p>\n

“Its awayz the doctorsss. They’ll find a way to glerble your gluff–”<\/p>\n

“Yeah I–”<\/p>\n

“–I mean they really know florfzzgch, right? Right?”<\/p>\n

“…yes–”<\/p>\n

“–flarbledy blood test with this Asian flarp–”<\/p>\n

And on he went. I start to undress for my shower because if I didn’t do anything I’d still be standing there. I’ve long since try to interject, or\u00a0 comment since his verbal floodgate is wide open.<\/p>\n

“And the needle was thiz big! This big! Big! and he jabbed it into my flarglezzguh and I was oh! Then that nurze I had my eye on hubba flargle–”<\/p>\n

BRAAAAAAA. Someone across the locker room started to use the bathing suit dryer. As difficult as it was to understand before, all hope was lost now.<\/p>\n

BRAAAAA we had four AAAAAAA with the garh flappy pain AAAAAAA I’m verlty deuce! AAAAA Two of em shuved up in AAAAA until I stahted screamin’ aaaaaa (the machine spins down)…<\/p>\n

By this time I’m super naked. Just a towel. But not a smartly wrapped towel, no. I thought I could find a moment where he’d stop talking and offer a “Well! Have a great day!” and exit to the showers so I didn’t bother to wrap it around me. I never wrap a towel around me to get to the showers – I like making the repressed religious freaks uncomfortable. Plus I was hoping that he’d notice I’m super naked and realize I’m on my way and he’d shut himself up to let me go. I’m backing away and he’s not noticing.<\/p>\n

“It’s a vaylve in dere, ya know? And they’re sticking needles in mah leg and I’m all fuggedoarljk!”<\/p>\n

So for about a solid minute (3 hours when you’re super naked) I’m standing with my saggy ass to the room, covering\/not covering my “acorn sitting on a peach” (it’s cold, ok?) looking for an out.<\/p>\n

“That’s when he says, ‘You need a bypass!'”<\/p>\n

“That’s awful! Butthatslifetoobadyouhavea GREAT DAY!” I say and turn.<\/p>\n

I’m a horrible person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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