Pizza Gym

Do you think a gym should serve pizza, bagels and tootsie rolls to its members? If so, you would love Planet Fitness. Aside from the massive carbs and refined sugar, 1/3 of their members are completely unaware of their surroundings as they are blinded by their cell phone addiction and deaf from the ear buds in their heads. Ask them a question, they are literally not there. This occurs in a place where there are 45lb free weights being moved around and stacked among the deaf, dumb, blind and refined sugar junkies addicted to electromagnetic devices.

Why are these people in a gym? Is Planet Fitness really a gym or is it something else? The row of televisions projecting blue light is the glue that binds the hapless membership. As I walked in for my workout, I asked the attendant at the front desk about my concerns. He seemed stressed as he had to actually think and foment a cogent response to a customer. The employees stress was further increased by the fact that he had a live human being asking a question he had to respond to. I finally told him "...don't worry about it - I'll go on on-line and fill out a survey..." He immediately went back to his comfort zone of staring into a computer monitor. Our new comfort is delusional screen time and not communicating with each other-even when it is your job.

Cell phones within the workout area need to be banned. Pizza, bagels and tootsie rolls need to be thrown in the dumpster. Employees that cannot communicate on a 6th grade level with customers need to be fired. Do all Planet Fitness locations have the same issues? If not, I suggest they get in line with the cognitive dissonance rolled out in the one where I live. Planet Fitness has their own television channel. They play videos. One of them is an advertisement for Febreeze. It tells people to spray Febreeze on their shoes, gym bags and work out gear. This is one of the worst pieces of advice that can be given. The chemicals in Febreeze should not be inhaled in a workout setting where ones heart rate and respiration are quadrupled. This is downright dangerous. What kind of alleged "gym" would do this to their membership?

The problem is that I like this gym, it has all the best equipment and is close to my house. The layout is good and there is a lot of space. $10.00 per month is a small price to pay for this. I just cannot understand the mixed message and downright harm they are causing their membership. Planet Fitness needs to incorporate smoothies, veggie trays and organic chips into their feeding regimen. This would make a helluva a lot more sense , after all they are a gym, not a fast food restaurant. Why are they feeding people anyway? People need to eat less when they work out, not more. I think they have succumbed to the politically correct mentality that has been plaguing the nation over the last decade. They are trying to accommodate those that do not work out, those that need the illusion of a Starbucks like social experiment and people that just cannot put down their damned phones for one minute. Enough! Just be a gym, leave the wrong headed societal crap behind and help people get in shape- not eat themselves into a false notion of what a workout should be.

Hotel Survey

What did you like about your stay?

There was a 12 inch hair on the edge of the bath tube. I noticed this after I took a shower. Sheets are crumbling apart. Your definition of a "Suite" is an L- shaped jail cell. I felt dirty when I woke up. I was glad to leave. The continental breakfast is loaded with bad stuff for you - carbs, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, etc. Are you trying to poison me? I sent a picture of the hair to the night attendant and asked for an additional 500 points to be added to my IHG card. I asked for confirmation, never got it. I need you to add an additional 500 points to my IHG card. I need you to confirm this for me within 24 hrs.  I will never stay at  your alleged "hotel" again.

What do you think would make your next stay better?

Well, to begin with, you can bulldoze the facility and turn it into a park. This will improve the community and remove the clear and present danger of your facility.  Next, you can lose the name "Candlewood" completely. It is a contrived name with no significance except the implication of wood burning and arson. Third, you can fire your entire house keeping staff and never employ them in your company again. Fourth, your management team is unresponsive and uncaring - they too need to be fired immediately. Management is responsible for this travesty and the continuation of your establishment is as an alleged hotel is borderline criminal. The local health department needs to be contacted and an injunction needs to be issued to Cease and Desist all hotel functions immediately. You are hurting the community and need to be stopped before more dire implications of your dangerous scheme are perpetrated upon innocent travelers.

What do you think would make your next stay better?