Come again?
Cynthia McMullen
Mar 28, 2008
I am NOT making this up. Remembering all those 24-hour ads for American Family Fitness, I called the one in Short Pump to see if anyone there had a line on Ghostface Killah.
Here’s the phone message. No kidding:
“Thank you for calling American Family Fitness center in downtown Short Pump. We are now closed. Our hours are 24 hours a day ... .“ (Yada, yada, yada.)
I’m stunned. How, exactly, does that work? Can you be closed and not closed simultaneously? Are buff, outraged townfolk beating on the doors right now, screaming, “You’re open 24 hours! You’re open 24 hours! But WE CAN’T GET IN!“
It’s a conundrum.
No joke! I recently joined AmFam turned on to the fact that it would accommodate my ever changing schedule. So I head up to the one on Midlothian for an 11 o’clock swim on Friday night, and the door is locked! It’s then that I look around for a sign noting hours -aside for the big one lit up boasting 24 hour fitness. Nope, closed at 10! And as early as 8 on Saturday! I head home and look up the website. Nothing but the big stamp yet again suggesting 24 hours. Really!? So I figure that the bigger, newer one in Swift Creek surely must be open, and that a smaller nearby one could possibly be closed if there’s a close alternative. I hop on the Powhite and head over. And what do I get for assuming? A waste of time and gas. B/n the busy “normal” hours and the deceiving “24 hour” advertising, I’m regretting my contract and plan on advising others considering NOT to sign up for membership!
Dawn
Jul. 26, 2008 at 12:35 AM
No joke! I recently joined AmFam turned on to the fact that it would accommodate my ever changing schedule. So I head up to the one on Midlothian for an 11 o’clock swim on Friday night, and the door is locked! It’s then that I look around for a sign noting hours-aside for the big one lit up boasting 24 hour fitness. Nope, closed at 10! And as early as 8 on Saturday! I head home and look up the website. Nothing but the big stamp yet again suggesting 24 hours. Really!? So I figure that the bigger, newer one in Swift Creek surely must be open, and that a smaller nearby one could possibly be closed if there’s a closer alternative. I hope on the Powhite and head over. And what do I get for assuming? A waste of time and gas. B/n the busy “normal” hours and the deceiving “24 hour” advertising, I’m regretting my contract and plan on advising others considering NOT to sign up for membership!
Dawn
Jul. 26, 2008 at 12:29 AM
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