Workout buddies

Our local YMCAs had a bring-a-friend special this past week, and a woman in one of my exercise classes persuaded an office-mate to join her, apparently by telling her the class was fun and easy. The newcomer realized within minutes that her friend had perhaps not been quite forthright about the level of difficulty and began giving her looks of disbelief and mock-protesting: "Relaxing, you said! It's just stretching, you said!" At one point she wondered aloud what on earth she was doing in a room "with a bunch of fit chicks." She was actually a very good sport, but I suspect things may have been a tad tense at their workplace the next day.