Stupidity has some raging consequences... At least for me it does. Why is it that when I see someone else being stupid, they don't experience the same things I do when I'm stupid? Perhaps I just don't notice it. Perhaps because I'm more painfully aware of when I act stupid than other people are? Eh.

Why? Because I was stupid this morning. The consequences of my stupidity were immediate and I can still feel the effects three-four hours later.

I will be among the first to admit that I am not athletic or really in very good shape. Last summer, I went to a gym from time to time with my mother, sister, and sister-in-law(once, with my brother). The fall semester, I took part in marching band(and to any who think doing such is easy, why don't you go and memorize four or five songs, learn how to march properly with all the extra bits that go along with it, learn how to keep your eyes on the conductor while watching where you're going, learn how to play an instrument properly while marching, AND learn how to get along with the other musicians). Spring semester, I'd take long walks. That is all. I don't really take part in sports much and I don't go to dances often.

So, while I was apartment-sitting and fish-sitting for my brother and his wife, my sister(who is with me) decides she wants to work-out in the fitness room. Since my sister-in-law thought that my sister needed to be accompanied by myself since she isn't eighteen yet and told us so, I accompanied her. This morning, I woke up later than usual and since long ago I decided not to bother with breakfast if it was past 10:30 AM, I didn't eat. I just had a glass of orange juice before I grabbed a bottle of water to drink while getting some excercise.

In the fitness room, I looked around a little clueless before I sat myself down in an excercise bike. I set it to performance for five minutes. The 'erformance' setting simulates a hill. The bike begins the simulation and I do fine for the first couple of minutes. I feel 'the burn' in my legs, but continue, thinking I was fine. As the last minute comes along, I realize I am not fine. I began feeling the effects of dehydration, coupled with the fact my body had not received any nutrients that morning to get energy from.

First-in my experience, you feel kind of light-headed and weak, which is followed by something of a headache and maybe slight nausea. It's a bit late once you get to this point, but if you start slowly drinking water(once, I had to make due with apple soda) immediately and sit down, it is possible not to pass out. After that, you get shaky and such. I keep fumbling with the cap to my water bottle. Then your vision starts going. The first time I remember going through this, my vision seemed like static on a television(and that was only from standing in line for an hour). Today, my vision was going black.

Having your vision fade out to black is a scary experience. I don't honestly know how long I sat like that. Eventually and without passing out, my vision returned. I refilled my water bottle, kept drinking, and sat down in the bathroom instead of the excercise bike. After some minutes, I left the bathroom, was told by my sister that one had to be fourteen before been unaccompanied(at that time, I told her what had happened), and left her there. Eventually I had to go back to get her out of the pool area since I had the key.

All-in-all, I went through quite an experience thanks to my idiocy and quietly stubborn personality. I survived it though, with a lasting headache and sore eyes from keeping them open when I couldn't see anything.

Any of you have episodes when stupidity got you in a pot of trouble like this? At this point, I'm not really in a position to laugh.

P.S. This apartment isa freezing. I wish I had brought my slippers with me.