Free-weight Equipment in Kuwait
My wife and I have recently found a new place to stay, and with one of the extra bedrooms we are going to make a home gym. I went out looking for something pretty specific: a weight bench. That is all I was looking for. I was shocked to find that at several locations, one of which was Ace hardware, that the weight bench itself (including leg attachment and preacher-curl attachment) was 99KWD! That is $377! I can buy an extremely nice bench with that much in the states, and possibly weights as well.
The sad part about this is that most of the benches felt cheap as can be. If you wanted a bench with a full set of weights (not steel or metal, but rubber coated), it woud cost 199KWD. That is insanely overpriced! I might just have to continue doing body weight exercises!
I was told of a sports store right behind Avenues Mall at the roundabout. I will check there this weekend.
Exotic Pets in Kuwait?
A friend of mine at work started laughing hysterically (did I spell that right?) out of nowhere today. Looking over I saw why. Unfortunately, it is a sad and funny reason. There is a website, which I will not disclose even though I am sure it has made it to multiple sites, where you can buy pets in Kuwait. These range from dogs and cats to an animal that looks like (and may well be!) a cheetah and other animals such as monkeys and gazelles!
Without any research into this, does the common person even know how to take care of these types of animals, many of which are babies? I mean seriously, what would you feed a gazelle? What about a monkey? They had a crocodile as well!
Not only are some of these animals dangerous, but I bet they were illegally brought into the country. Sure, having a monkey that can fetch the morning paper and make coffee sounds pretty cool, but in reality I don’t see it as a feasable pet for the home.
Maybe I am wrong. Maybe this is a professional organization looking to sell exotic pets to people and give them the correct training to take care of them. I highly doubt that though, as most of the experience I have had over here involving people and their pets is just sad. The average person over here seems to have very little idea how to take care of something like a dog or cat. How can they take care of one of these animals?
Looks like another person out to make a buck, or KD in this case.
