Naked & Stranded

On Friday, I decided to go to the gym.

Due to all the events at work to commemorate our final week, I hadn't worked out since August 30. What I didn't know was that the gym had given away my locker in that time. At the beginning of August, the gym staff started posting notices on lockers whose rentals were soon to expire. But I didn't have a notice on my locker and my gym membership didn't expire until December. I had been with that gym for nearly two years, and I was familiar with the process of renewing my locker, but this time, no notice. I thought I was safe.

Until my locker wouldn't open. I tried the combination over and over and then went up to the front desk at the other end of the building to find out why. As I am walking over, it occurs to me that my locker may have expired. "Nah," I think, "if my locker were to expire, I would get notice beforehand, like last time." Except, not. It turns out my locker did expire, was emptied out and given to someone else. All without me finding out.

I was upset but recovered. The gym had my stuff in a plastic bag in the back and it was all there. So I took the opportunity to rent two new lockers (one for my school books as the law school will soon be torn down and our swing space won't have lockers for us). The combinations for these lockers (the gym also provides the locks) were very similar. To keep track of them, I wrote them both down in my iphone since I always bring it into the gym with me.

After a long workout (which went a long way to sooth my nerves), I changed for the shower, but remembered to bring my iphone with me at the last moment. I didn't have the combinations memorized. "Wouldn't it be horrible," I thought, "if I didn't have the combination and was stuck here with just my towel?"

When I came back from the shower, I oponed the notes section of my iphone and...the combinations were gone. Gone! The entire note was erased. Later, I found out from Monster that if you jostle or shake the iphone in any way--even accidentally--when the notes are open, it erases the note. Just.Like.That. That is a demonic feature.

So, my note with the locker combos was erased and, try as I might, I couldn't remember either one of them, as they were so similar and kept blurring in my mind.
After five minutes of trying, I started to panic. I am dressed only in a towel and flip flops and desparately do not want to make my way across the entire gym to get to the front desk.

I just sat there for a minute contenmplating my next move. Should I venture out in my towel and flag down the front desk? Should I wait here and hope someone from the front desk wanders in to check the bathrooms or something? That is when some poor random girl walks into the locker room. I immediately accosted her and begged her to run over to the front desk for me. I don't think she spoke English very well but my desparation was universal, I guess, because a few minutes later the girl who works the front desk came in and I was saved.

Funny how you're worst fears can come true. And then be resolved.