What's So Great About Belonging to a Gym?

I'm a regular and faithful member of my gym.  It helps keep me on my fitness path in a lot of ways, such as:

1. When your physical therapist tells you to do squats with a little squishy ball between your knees because that will strengthen your quads, and you ask the wellness director if she has a little squishy ball you can use, and not only does she have one you can use, you can keep it in her office and go in and get it whenever you want. (It’s red. I bought one yesterday at Target to keep at home for those days I can’t make it to the gym. It has Disney fairy princesses on it. It’s very pretty. Don’t tell my son).  
2. When you’re used to doing your exercises a certain way and they begin to feel a little boring and your body doesn’t seem to be having much reaction to the work you’re doing, you can look around and find someone doing something a different way and you can try it. For example: yesterday after I finished doing the chest press on the bench, which I do almost every time I lift, in a desperate attempt to keep certain parts of the anatomy from sagging to my knees (who out there is old enough to remember what Carol Burnett would do whenever she dressed up as an old woman?), I noticed one of my son’s workout buddies doing the chest press in a much more challenging and difficult looking way. Translation – it’s probably better than the way I do it. He pressed both arms up, then pressed the left side, then pressed the right side, then pressed both sides, etc. Wow. I’m going to try that tomorrow. 
3. When you are a regular, you get to know so many people. So that when you are so tired that you don’t feel like you can lift one more weight, even a 3-pound barbell, there is usually someone there to chat with for a minute (or two). That gives you time to catch your breath without looking like you’re just standing around being lazy. Then suddenly you will feel like you can lift some more weight after all. 
4. They have a lot of posters on the walls, so that even if there isn’t anyone around to talk to for a minute, you can study the poster of the anterior and posterior muscles as if you just want to learn about them. You would think by now that I would know all of them, but I don’t. I just look at the poster.  I don’t think I have learned any of them. Remember, I didn’t even know that your quads were called that because there are 4 muscles in there. Live and learn, huh? 
5. Encouragement, encouragement, encouragement! When someone tells you that you are looking strong, that is enough to keep you coming back for at least one more day.