On being forgetful

3 days a week I utilize the company gym located in the building in which I work. It’s a wonderful time saver AND money saver. At my previous job I joined a local gym nearby my office. So it’s been several years now that I’ve been toting my trusty backpack to work with me, stuffed with workout clothes and shoes as well as shower necessities: towel, shower shoes and toiletries. You’d think that by now I would have gotten to be a pro at not forgetting anything. But from time to time I can be quite absentminded. Today I forgot fresh underpants. (I’ve done this on several occasions.) The solution? Simple, workout sans underpants. Nice and breezy. Yesterday I forgot workout socks. I just wore my running shoes without socks. Not entirely comfortable but easy enough. These two overlooked items are nothing compared to things I’ve forgotten before:

Twice I've forgoten my sports bra. I just kept my regular one on and used the elliptical rather than the treadmill. I’m confident nobody at work had a clue that I had a sweat drenched bra on the rest of the day.

Another time I forgot my running shoes. Luckily I was wearing flats to work so I just kept those puppies on and stepped on the elliptical.

I’ve forgotten my shower towel before. That one is kind of a crummy item to go without. I half ‘air dried’ and used a lot of paper towels. Even then my work clothes had splotchy wet patches all over them when I got back to work.

The worst so far is the one time where I forgot my shirt. That was the one thing that would have thwarted me (I’m not going to run around the gym with nothing over my sports bra! How embarrassing!) except one of my fellow officemates had to bail out of the gym at the last minute so she let me use her workout shirt. Bless her heart.

I have yet to forget my pants/shorts but I’m sure it’ll happen one day.