Dry Docks

[susandennis]

I decided to give up on the swimming. For now or maybe forever. And it's fine. I wrote to the folks at the club to find out how to resign and ask for a refund on the swims I bought already but haven't used.

I've been worrying about it now for days. I thought I'd go and try one more time to make sure it wasn't my imagination or something else. But, honestly, I do not want a repeat of this last week. My lungs are not ever going to get any better so why torture them.

I feel relieved. There's a gym next to Pike Place market that has a salt water pool that my lungs are ok with. They are opening their pool this week but with massive restrictions so I think I'll wait.

Meanwhile it's me and the treadmill. I'm ok with that.

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OK weird. I sent my "I have to resign" note to the woman who signed me up (sales?) and the woman who runs the aquatics (and fixed an earlier billing issue). The rules say you have to come in and fill out a form and in my note I asked if that were true and/or what the pandemic resign process is. Just now I got a reply from the club manager. I didn't even know his name until I read it in that blog post about their being bought out.

His note said:

Hi Susan,

Your email below will serve as your 30 days advance notice to cancel. No further action on your part is necessary. You will not be billed again.

Michaela will refund the sessions you purchased for Adult Lap Swim.

Thank you for allowing us to serve you!

Sincerely,
Mark Durall, GM
Olympic Athletic Club

I've never heard of a gym letting you off the hook that easily. Weird. But, fine by me.

Comments

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry, even though you are ok with it. I have been wanting to ask if you were going to consider stopping, but I didn't want to make you sad.

I am glad the gym handled it nicely.

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

I’m so sorry the lungs are forcing you to give up something you love, at least for now. I meant to comment earlier today about how nice it was that you and the treadmill were finally getting along - just in time, too! It’s nice that the gym is being so cooperative.

[richaarde.livejournal.com]

It's great that the gym is being cooperative. I've heard horror stories about people trying to stop services with their gym.

[susandennis]

Me, too. I didn't expect to get pushback but I did expect to have to go through a couple of hoops. This was quite a pleasant surprise.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

So sad, but I'm hopeful about the Pike Place one in due course.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

Glad they let you off easy. I am sad that you are breaking up with swimming though because it seems such a big part of your life. I hope you can go to the salt water pool at some point in the future

[ticklethepear.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed your swimming posts, and I remember very clearly your post about how you fell in love with swimming.

[susandennis]

hopefully, i'll get back to it one day.

[dadi.livejournal.com]

I am sorry :( I know how much you love the swimming. Crossing fingers that the salt water pool will be an option soon!

[runeshower.livejournal.com]

So sorry to hear that the pool wasn't working out. But wow, amazing that they made it so easy to cancel!

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

lol WHen I used to work at the Y, people were always skeptical when I told them they could quit and we'd stop billing them within 30 days. There's for sure some predatory gyms out there. I remember one coworker telling me he had to tell a gym he was moving to a place where the nearest one was over an hour away before they would let him out of his contract.