Saturday, April 2, 2011

YOU GET WHAT YOU DON'T PAY FOR

I got up early this morning to drive to the neighboring county's community college, where I'd enrolled in two free one-hour classes in my lifelong, semi-hopeless quest for self-improvement. What a disappointment.

Fifteen minutes into the first class, which had to do with sustaining weight loss, a monitor came to tell the 20 or so in attendance that she'd called the MISSING instructor and got no answer; she'd keep trying to reach him.  Most of us decided to ditch the class, but before we left the building she said she'd reached him.  Ooops! He'd forgotten about the classes he was going to be teaching today.  He'd be out to the college ASAP and would definitely be there in time for the 10:15 class. 

I passed the time by going to the wonderful nursery/garden shop in town, purchasing a knock-out rose bush, then returned to the second class, called "Stressology."  Before getting started, the teacher briefly gave us info about the weight sustenance session he missed.  It was basically some sort of body de-tox program he conducts at his chiropractor's office.  Twelve dollars a day for the liquid drink, plus supplements. So much for the free idea  On to de-stressing.

The good doctor had a power point program he read from.  When asked for examples of some of the "points," he often couldn't think of any.  But the worse thing of all was his one and only hand-out.  It was a big circle representing a sad face, with the directions to tape it to the wall and bang your head in the circle 10 times or so.  That was it.  Oh, and he could give us a spinal adjustment at his office, not for free of course, to release tension.

So much for my free education of the day.  Class dismissed.  I took my own sad face out of the room and left the hand-out.  I don't need instructions to be a head-banger.

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