Originally Posted by Eggplant Jeff
Hey! Stop hijacking my thread! Where did this wheel/weight nonsense come from?!?
I love the fact that not one person even hinted at suggesting that we do WORK instead of slacking
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The problem with going for a bike ride, spider-man, is that most of us (office worker types anyway, especially salaried folks) are paid for attendence. As long as you're present at work, 40 hrs a week, you get the same paycheck. So spending 4 hours a day on BF, playing minesweeper, solitaire, whatever as long as you're sitting at your desk, is OK (as long as you don't get caught). Being outside riding your bike is not.
The same thing is true of high schools. Think of a time when your teacher sat chatting with the cheerleaders about the homecoming float; or think of the time when your crazy science teacher went off on a discourse about the appropriateness of hunting, because otherwise the animal population would somehow destroy society. And then think of how many times you asked if, instead of sitting there doing jack, you could leave.
And that answer was always 'No.'
Because attendance is more important than substance...