Spinning and the Kids

Well the Evil Republican Spin Goddess was at it again on Monday with a killer workout. She said during the ride, that it would be in " race mode". And for me it was a race to see if I could survive the workout. Most of the people who take her class have heart rate monitors, so we can make sure that we are working at certain levels. On some of these monitors there is a alarm that goes off when your heart rate is at a high level. A couple of times during the workout it sounded like getting 10 cell phone calls all at one time. It was a hell of a workout with Evil hitting a home run. She puts a lot of time and energy into the workouts and it shows.

Changing gears for a bit, before class and after class, people talk mostly about their kids and what they are up to and how they are driving them crazy. And most of the noise are about teenagers, and what they are doing and trying to get away with. I know that it is a tough time in ones life to go through the teenage years, trying to break out and be your own person. Trying to stretch your boundaries. And the one thing that always amazes me is that the kids seem to think that their parents lived their young live's sheltered away in monastery's, kept away from from all the bad things and all the temptation in life. The kids think that they are the only ones that are living these unique experiences and that the parents don't have a clue about what they are going through. They think what they are doing the parents know nothing about. Well I want to tell them all that your parents have gone through a whole lot of things that would make their hair curl. Of course you can't tell your kids these things you have experienced because you have to be a good roll model for them. You couldn't tell them for instance about the joints that you have smoked or the sex you have had or how drunk you got at 15. So bide your time parents, the time will come when your teenagers will once again think of you as people, and it will only take another 10 years.