When you go to the gym, you always have those awesome, chill employees who will let some stupid rules slip and help you out if they can, and then you have the obnoxious employees with attitude.

You know, the kind at Wilson Gym that when the gym is about to close, announces in THE MOST obnoxious voice ever, EXTREMELY LOUDLY into the PA, "ATTENTION PLEASE.  THE GYM WILL BE CLOSING IN 15 MINUTES."  Everyone on the basketball courts covers their ears in pain and curse her, because they know the PA could have been done elegantly.

So, here goes Gym Scandal 2008.  I was working out late in the gym yesterday night.  The employee at the weight room was just sitting back at the desk reading Glamour or something of that sort, not giving a care about anything.  The ONLY thing she really had to do was to give out towels and swipe your Duke card if you asked for one.  But nooo...instead of having the towels in their normal spot, she had them partially hidden from view.

"HEEELLLL NO!" I thought.  I was gonna get my towel.  I went over and asked for one.  You think I'd asked her to recreate the Sistine Chapel ceiling with Crayola crayons.  She glared, glanced at the towels.  "Should I just take one?" I asked.  Grimacing like a beaver in labor whose dam had been destroyed by Grecian fire, she slowly rocked out of her chair, took my Duke card, and swiped it.

No more than 10 minutes later, I returned to check my towel back in.  She's back to reading her magazine.  I asked to return the towel, and she gave me such a stinky eye, you'd swear she'd eaten a dozen eggs and neglected to brush her teeth for weeks, that's how stinky the eye was.

As she swiped out my towel, I noticed a sign had been put up.  What sign was this?  It  was the sign the fitness room employees were supposed to put up if they ran out of towels.  That's right, she was so lazy (insert analogy), she put up the sign when just ten minutes earlier, when I checked out my towel, there were at least 5 towels left.  To what?  Not move 5 feet to DO HER JOB?

Thus, I expose this worker in what should rightfully be called GYM SCANDAL 2008.