Sex at the Workplace
After being [at Twin Meadows Health and Fitness] a little while and establishing relationships with plenty of co-workers and members, I found out that quick little trysts at the club were happening with stunning frequency. The amount of people who were married and messing around was incredibly staggering.
Another male trainer (who was married) was getting post-workout blowjobs from a female member (who was married) in her car out in the parking lot. I saw him getting out of her car when I was leaving one day, and he saw me see him. He politely but firmly asked me to keep my mouth shut about what was obviously going on. I told him that if I saw him, other people could see him too. It must not have made a difference because a few weeks later I saw them both get into her car as I was walking in. The woman he was with quit the club but kept hooking up with him in random parking lots near the gym during his breaks.
One of the guys who worked part-time on the floor would have sex with a female member of the club in a storage closet behind the indoor pool during the week. Her boyfriend would be there on the weekends, so she could only hook up with him during the week when her boyfriend was at work. I remember him telling a few of us about it over beers one night, and I wondered how that worked, what with mop buckets, chemicals and dirty towels taking up most of the closet. Why they thought that a storage closet was a good place to have a quickie is anyone’s guess. It was well hidden from anyone who was in the gym, but still….. I thought that they must have had a dirty laundry fetish.
There were more than a few hook-ups in the offices just off the fitness floor. There was a room with a massage table for stretching out clients that had blinds that shut and a door that locked just off to the side of the gym floor. There was a female employee who worked on the fitness floor that used to give blow jobs to a training client of mine in that room on a regular basis. Another married female member used to do the same with her male personal trainer (who had become a friend of mine) when the room was open, and the timing was right. If that wasn’t an option, they’d drive out to a forest preserve that was close and hook up in the car.
A co-worker who was hooking up with his married client would be seen going into the office off the gym floor, shutting the door and pulling the blinds and then having a quick fuck session. I remember telling him how obvious he was making it after a client of mine had pointed it out to me that he saw them do this on multiple occasions. He “justified” it by telling me he was only a part-time trainer, and his other business was his “real” job.
One member, James, really got carried away with the sexual partners you could find at this club. This guy was a know-it-all stubborn old dude that inherited all his money, which gave him a false sense of knowledge and superiority. He thought he was above the law, so to speak, which was why he got clipped. He was having an affair with a smoke show of a woman who was a member, and 30 years younger than he was, no less. And she was HOT. AS. SHIT. I couldn’t figure out for the life of me what she saw in that grizzled old bastard James. She was married as well, but it was to a guy that wasn’t nearly as well off as James. And James would go on and on about how he was fucking this beauty of a woman when he was in the locker room or out on the gym floor, not thinking that it could very well reach his wife’s ears. Sure enough, his wife got an inkling about his affair, and decided to hire a private eye. After the private eye got proof, his wife confronted him with the pictures the private eye took. Turns out, James was fucking this hottie in a Motel 6. The pictures showed James kissing her outside her car as they were saying their goodbyes on multiple occasions. So, his wife busted him in the act, hiding out in the Motel 6 parking lot until they both came out of a room together. When they were on the way to their cars, his wife walked up and handed him the pictures that were taken of him (as his girlfriend watched in horror).
His wife demanded that the affair would stop immediately, and that his girlfriend would have to quit the gym. She then demanded a huge ring from James, or she would divorce him and take a nice fat chunk of his money. Sure enough, she was back at the gym shortly after busting her husband with a monster 6-figure ring. I heard James made a comment to a client I was training that he “Had to spend 6 figures to keep that old bag happy.” It would have cost him tons more cash to get divorced, so it was the smart move for our cheap-hotel hero James. True love at its finest.
Will was a mid-50’s gentleman who worked out at the club 3 to 4 times a week. He was in good shape and a handsome guy who was married with two young kids. His wife wasn’t a member, so he didn’t have eyes on him at the gym, which I’m sure he loved. He owned two popular restaurants in the ‘burbs and he did quite well. Now, we never trained together, but we always would talk at the gym for 5 or 10 minutes when I was lifting or in between clients. We did an exercise or two together as we were talking about this or that. He was a horny guy, always asking about my attractive clients and making comments about their bodies.
So, one Saturday when I was working out, Will and I had talked for about 20 minutes or so. It was a normal, casual conversation until the very last part. Before we wrapped up our convo, he told me that he was having sex with a hostess from one of his restaurants and that he had found out she was pregnant. He wasn’t sure whether it was his or her fiancé’s (she was engaged and getting married soon). I can’t imagine being able to breathe normally with that type of weight on my shoulders. Will was just going about his day like everything was normal. He dropped this on me almost like we were talking about the football game from the past weekend, it was so casual. I told him I was sorry, and I hoped it all worked out. As I was walking away, I wondered how someone could do that who has so much to lose. I would have a hard time sleeping, talking, or even doing simple tasks like swallowing food. The guy had two young daughters and two restaurants that he was putting all on the line for some extracurricular sex.
The next time we got to speak was a while after he had told me about his predicament. Our conversation would be cool for about five minutes and then he gushed, “Oh yeah, she (the hostess) got a paternity test, turns out it’s her fiancé’s baby.” Again, he acted like nothing happened and nothing was wrong.
Fast forward a few years, Will got a divorce and lost one of his restaurants. He also quit the club, which I’m sure was for a few reasons. One of which was that his wife found out about his transgressions. A lot of people knew him, because he was always at his restaurants and the club members would frequent his restaurants quite a bit.
I never had any hook-ups at the gym as I valued my career more than a quick fix. But I definitely bent the rules of the employee handbook a few times during the first few years of my career there. I was in my late 20’s, and at that time in my life I would have walked on broken glass with my balls on fire while chewing on a mouthful of wasps to get an attractive woman in bed. As you grow up, you accumulate wisdom to navigate through these types of superficial situations and realize that there are more important things in a relationship than just hooking up. Needless to say, I wasn’t at that level of maturity yet. Not even close.
