Yesterday...
... I cancelled my Fatness First subscription.

"Can I ask you why?" said the membership person.
"I've found somewhere cooler, cleaner, quieter, cheaper and closer to the office," I said. I'd been rehearsing the list, and was quite proud of the repeated "k" sound.
She was pretty unruffled. "Yep. That'd do it," she sighed, with the knowledge that she works for a band of crooks.


How can I have lived in Manchester for 2 years without twigging that the Commonwealth Aquatics Centre has a gym, that it's two minutes from the office, and that membership is subsidised for University staff?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 14 Jul 2009, 14:45, 6 replies)

yay!
However, having read horror stories about trying to escape their evil clutches, make sure you keep notes of all conversations, copies of letters, and tell your bank that you have cancelled your subscription. There are a few cases in which people have cancelled the direct debit, only for FF to resume payments by taking it off your debit card (which they have details of).
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Tue 14 Jul 2009, 15:40, closed)

Yup...
... I'll be keeping a beady eye on them. I still have to pay for August, but them I'm out. I'm just reminding myself of that again and again.

Plus the new place has a pool. Woo!
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 14 Jul 2009, 15:59, closed)

I read that
as "plus the new place has a poo! woo!".

And I wasn't surprised. Or shocked.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Tue 14 Jul 2009, 17:01, closed)

Yup
Manchester Aquatics Centre is great, and they do pay as you go aswell
(europe-who, Tue 14 Jul 2009, 20:33, closed)

Brain the size of a planet but no common sense : )
Yup!
( girlinthehole, Tue 14 Jul 2009, 20:43, closed)

Is it any good?
Like, do they have plenty of gear, it's not full of asian steroid freaks and isn't packed all the time?

I'm looking for a new gym.
(ScousersPet, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 15:46, closed)