headphones required

when i go to the gym, i always have my trusty music and headphones. there are 3 reasons for this:
1. i need my tunes to keep me truckin' along
2. people will not talk to me.
3. i don't have to listen to other people talk.

Husband and I go to the gym this evening, and neither of us has our music. at first, it's no great calamity because we're lifting weights. however, when we move to bicycles, it turns out to be cataclysmic. there's some dopey women behind us, all tittering on and on and on about their obnoxious eating/exercising habits.

one women says, panting (and so much she should get the hint and stop talking) "i gave up bread, pasta, wheat, and even my dr. pepper! i was at so and so's house, and she made homeade cinnamon rolls. she got the recipe off the internet. anyhow, did i eat one? no!!"

and she's proud of this? quite frankly, that sounds like a terrible existence. and stupid. but i guess she has something to brag about now. i thought of her as i ate my jimmy john's sub with delicious, bakery-fresh bread and bacon.