"Exercise"

My first night as a YMCA member I went to the
exercise room to try out the stair-step machine.

"Shall I set it for ten or twenty minutes?"
asked the attendant.

"Make it ten," I replied conservatively.

After just a few minutes, though, my legs felt like
lead. I had had enough. As I stepped off the
machine, I limped past some men who were
resting from their workouts.

"I could take only three minutes on that thing,"
I gasped.

"Okay," snapped one. "Stop bragging about it."