In the movie there's a scene where Evelyn, played by the amazing Kathy Bates, is going through a mid-life crisis and trying to spark up her sex life with her husband. She had always imagined herself wrapped in saran wrap, so one day she comes to the door fully wrapped to greet her husband. One of my first thoughts was, that's hilarious, who would actually do that? My second thought was, she has to be sweating.
Then I read somewhere that people wrap themselves in saran wrap before working out to try and sweat a little more. I thought, that's funny and kind of gross at the same time. It can't be healthy. And then I can't even imagine trying to get it off after the workout. Who would do that?
A lady at my gym would. That's who. I'm going to be a little judgy on this one.
So there is this lady who comes to the gym and we usually go about the same time. Every time, before she puts on her workout clothes, she wraps herself in massive amounts of saran wrap. Then puts on spandex over that, and then heavy sweats over that. It can't be comfortable. Then she waddles out to the gym floor with the sound of crinkly saran wrap echoing around her. Squeak squish, squeak squish.
Well, this one time I was at the grocery store and who did I see? The saran wrap lady. And what was she buying? Saran wrap! She had boxes of it. Stocking up I could only imagine. Sure enough, about a week later I ran into her at the gym and she was wrapping herself as usual with her fresh supply.
Then, several months went by and I didn't see her. Frankly, I had forgotten about her until a few days ago when there she was! Back in the locker room wrapping herself up.
I couldn't help but smile. It was like having an old friend back. Maybe that makes me the weird one, but I couldn't help but feel relieved. So many things in my life are changing, but at least this one is wrapped up tight. Literally.
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