ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
A local man has revealed today his tri-weekly habit of driving to the gym, where he walks a few kilometre and has a bit of a sit.
Despite appearances, Betoota Heights leasing agent Chad Chunk is not a new father trying to steal and hour to himself, he doesn’t even have a Scorpio girlfriend at home that’s ready to put the dog up him the moment she hears the key in the door. He lives alone, makes a good wicket and even has a financed 3-series BMW with a scratch on each panel. Outside of his usual work hours, he does whatever he wants. Which makes his routine seem all the more weird.
Every Monday night, Wednesday night and Friday morning, the 28-year-old drives his 2014 320i about 2 kilometres from his apartment to the gym, where he has to park in the Coles supermarket carpark and walk back over Greens Road to get to.
When he gets to the gym, he puts on a podcast and heads to the treadmills. Where he looks at a wall for 45 minutes while he walks toward it, without getting any closer. Others in the gym have told The Advocate that they’ve once observed Chunk try an erg machine but ultimately stopped after about 20 pulls. Another time, regulars have seen him have a go on a bike, where he winds the resistance right off and simply pumps his legs as he gazes around the converted aircraft hanger.
After about an hour or so, he whips his towel over the shoulder and heads out. Often to Coles where in order to validate his parking, he gets a kilo of plum BBQ sauce chicken wings from the deli and proceeds to eat them all the way home. Getting grease all over the steering wheel and just throwing the bones out the window onto the street when he’s done with it.
Aside from this atypical behaviour, Chunk is by all means a normal, functional, taxpayer. Shrouded in mystery.
More to come.
