Stupid Things I Have Seen (Pt96)

This was on the TV (OK, much of what is on TV these days is stupid – witness the supermarket PR woman this morning explaining to viewers how to read the ingredients lists on food packets).
The programme was something about obesity in Britain today; the picture they were illustrating this piece with was a shot of the inside of a crowded gym. In the foreground, a row of walking machines, each machine bearing a latitudinally challenged person steadily walking their way to nowhere.
Now, I don’t know how much gym membership costs these days; but I know they don’t come cheap. Which means that these people are actually paying to walk!
Hey, maybe I could charge people for that? Yes, get them to pay me money so that they can come to my house, walk around the garden, walk up and down the road outside for an hour, or two hours. If the weather is wet, or they aren’t keen on showing their flab in public, they could walk just around the living room and hall. I’d be prepared to serve up light refreshments for no extra charge, and I absaloutley wouldn’t giggle, stare or make remarks….