Speed III

My first experience on the elyptical at the gym was a humorous one. The machine kept going faster and faster, so I kept going faster and faster. Finally, it got to the point where I pictured myself getting thrown from the machine like it were a mechanical bull at Mickey Gilly's. The kind of visual you would expect from Ellen DeGeneres or... well, one of my other favorite comedians, Amy Boyd, who is also well-known for her physical comedy (If you don't know her, you should! Look her up at www.amyboyd.com). Yes, it was very... Buster Keaton. Except... well, I wasn't doing it to be funny. Which made it that much more funny. You see, I didn't realize that the reason the machine kept going faster was because I kept going faster. And I kept going faster because the MACHINE kept going faster. It was a big, ugly, vicious circle.

I was telling this story to my pals at work, Ron, a fellow programmer and one of the most decent people I've ever met, and Lisa the Phunny Pharmacist. We came up with this movie idea:

Speed III: Michelle is in the in-house gym on an elyptical. She has to maintain a certain speed level or the Center will blow up. If she goes below a certain speed, the Center will blow up. If she trys to get off or let someone take her place, the Center will blow up.

If we could get Sandra Bullock to ride the stationary bike beside me, and for the finale land in a tangled mess on the exercise mats, I'd be all for giving filming a shot. :)

Ok, so maybe we need to lay off the Dove dark chocolates, but it was pretty funny when we were going off on it!