Boys and Girls on Bikes

Waiting to get in to spinning class today I stood in front of two guys for ten minutes. They were going on and on about how they seemed to be the only guys there, a friend walked by and they told him how lucky they must have been to have picked that time to go - only them and lots and lots of girls!

Nothing unusual so far, guys like looking at girls and the more girls there are, the more there are to look at. They kept talking, I kept waiting. At the gym here you have to come 20 minutes early, then wait in line to get a ticket - if you don't get one, you don't get in to the spinning or the aerobics or the kick-class or whatever you want to do.

They start handing out tickets 15 mins before the class starts. If you've come early enough and get a ticket, you have to line up to get a good bike or spot in the room. Of course you could come to get the ticket, then go change but then you'd have to sit way in the back so you can't see the instructor (room is shaped like a C), or way up front so you can't see anyone.

They've got new bikes since the last time I was there though. That was... erm... a year ago. But they're cool, the old ones were wobbly or the seat was broken or the pedal didn't work right. The new ones are great.

Well we waited and waited and people started coming out, which means we can start going in soon. The guys still happy to be the only boys among all the girls. We started moving, I found a bike in the front of the room, close enough to see the instructor but far enough back I wasn't on the first couple rows. I figured the guys had moved further back to.. get a better view.

But then I saw them way up front.

Maybe it's just me and my dirty little mind, I heard guys talking about how lucky they were to be in a class with lots of girls, and assumed they wanted to look at the girls. Of course it could be they were happy to be in a class with lots of girls for another reason. But I just can't figure out what that reason could be - when you're way up front you don't see anyone. Why would it matter if everyone else were male or female when you wouldn't see them anyway?

So I figured maybe they wanted the girls to look at them, but that doesn't really make sense either. I know I'm not a guy and I can't possibly understand what goes on in their minds, but what I'm thinking is if I were thrilled to be in a spinning class with lots of guys for 45 minutes, that would be because I would like to look at them, not have them look at me. Or at least I assume so.

Then again I find girls much more interesting to look at than guys, but that's just me...