TCF, you deserve a pity party. Pain is a bummer.

Back to curves, I once considered buying a health club franchise and was informed that exercise places do not make money from people coming for exercise.
They make it from selling membership contracts. They market memberships in cycles and with each marketing blitz, they sell tons more memberships than they could possibly accomodate. They then purposely make it difficult for people to attend by limiting hours, etc. When that group of contracts run out they open up the hours and offer a lot of perks for the next marketing blitz and sell more contracts and do the same thing again.
I've noticed that with exercise places around here pretty often. Maybe curves is the same. Hope not.
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