Editor:
This Christmas, with the help of my daughter, I finally got music to workout music loaded on my cell phone. But, alas my first attempt was a disaster, as I whizzed along on the treadmill, my cell phone went one direction and my headphones another. Not only did the cell phone go one direction, but the battery came out and disappeared.
What happened next was amazing. Almost everyone in the gym stopped their workout to look, one person even offered to lend me their cell phone. We looked to no avail, and my suspicion was that it was in the treadmill hood. Not wanting to cause a fuss, I continued on with my workout, but on the way out mentioned it to the attendants. They immediately went into action, looking. It seemed that they needed some tools to take the treadmill apart, and a person on their way out offered to go out to their truck to get the right screwdriver. By this time I had to leave and so the attendants told me they would phone if they found it…and they did. They did not need my name, for they knew me, nor my phone number, it was on file.
When I got home there was a message that they had found it and that I could pick it up anytime..And, when I did they even offered to put the battery back in my phone for me…Now the reason I am telling this story is that it is great to live in a community where people stop their workouts to look for your lost battery, lend tools assist in the recovery, phone your home to let you know, I like it that people in Burns Lake know me by name, that they care…I feel comforted by all this and would not trade it for all the city lights and green grass in the world. Well done Burns Lake, well done multiplex attendants.
Paula Laurie
Burns Lake, BC