Gyms are stupid. We all know this. You pay a ridiculous fee to stand around in a dank, smelly room moving heavy objects into the air and then putting them right back where they were before, labors more pointless than the most menial job. Only a person whose entire self-image is dependent on the nebulous and ethically questionable concept of "fitness" could maintain the will to waste their time so pointlessly. This is why so few people are able to keep dragging themselves into the building in the first place.

Solution: Public Works Gym: Useful tasks performed for your community that have lasting benefit for everyone.

You enter Planet Fitness after your grueling day of transferring numbers from one computer to another and go to your locker. There, you find a hard hat, a high-vis vest, a pair of gloves, and a pair of work boots. Once you've changed, you meet your "personal trainer" (utility worker) and grab your equipment (shovel, pickaxe, jackhammer, auger, etc.) and head to the site.

"We need streetcar tracks and wires on 14th" PUBLIC WORKS GYM

"The water mains in this neighborhood haven't been touched since 1933" PUBLIC WORKS GYM

"A tree caved in the roof of this apartment building"

PUBLIC.

WORKS.

GYM.


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