Massive Mary versus Ripped Rebecah Because of our conflicting work hours, my wife, Mary, and I don't get to spend nearly as much time with each other as we would like. Therefore, last Thursday, her day off, when I called her from work and invited her to an early dinner, she immediately said "yes." I am a fitness counselor at a health club, and at work we wear polo type shirts with the club's logo on the front and the word "STAFF" on the back in big, bold caps. When we got to the restaurant, a friendly mom-and-pop cafe, I was still in my work clothes. The woman who waited on us was Rebecah, a somewhat slender waitress in, I would say, her mid-forties that I had seen once or twice before at a different restaurant. "Now I understand why you're so fit," she said to me. "You work at a gym, don't you?" I said that I did and asked her if she worked out. She said, "I don't need to" and rolled up her sleeve and flexed her right bicep. Both Mary and I did kind of a collective "Wow"!! Rebecah's arms were not huge, but man were they cut! She showed us her biceps from both the front and rear; and they were so defined that from the rear, even her deltoids were striated! "My G-d," I said. "How did you get such incredible muscularity without working out?" She explained that both of her parents, in her words, were quite "sinewy" but that years of physical work in restaurants had developed her arms beyond those of her parents or siblings. Since my wife was with me, I wisely resisted the temptation to ask her if I could feel her arms. It turned out that I didn't need to feel her arms because of what happened next. Mary mentioned that she does work out, and flexed her huge, but not nearly as defined, right arm. Although she didn't say a word, the look on Rebecah's face seemed to be saying a kind of "wow" of her own. I guess, as they say, "the devil made me do it" because next I blurted out that Mary's specialty was crushing other persons' biceps between her own biceps and forearms. "Oh, and how does she do that?" Rebecah asked with a bit of a sneer and a look of disbelief on her face. I explained that other people would put their triceps on top of Mary's biceps. The other person would flex his or her upper arm as hard as he or she could, and then Mary would flex her biceps and in so doing, of course, would lower her forearm. The other person's upper arm would then be squished by Mary's biceps and forearm muscles. Since we got to the restaurant around 3:30 or so in the afternoon, the cafe wasn't very busy. In fact, Mary and I were the only customers there at the time. Since there was no one else around, Rebecah said that there was no way that Mary could squish her arm and, in fact, asked Mary if she would like to lay her arm (that is, Mary's arm) on top of her own arm and said that she would squish Mary's arm! Okay, the contest was on. Mary laid her bulky triceps on top of Rebecah's biceps. Both women flexed, and to Rebecah's astonishment, Mary's biceps didn't budge!! In fact, in her effort to squish Mary's arm, she proceeded to flatten her own biceps as she brought down her forearm with all her might on top of Mary's biceps and pressed Mary's arm down on her own (Rebecah's) biceps. Now it was Mary's turn to have Rebecah lay her upper arm between Mary's biceps and forearm. Rebecah's supreme confidence of a couple of minutes ago was not so supreme now; but, being a good sport, she laid her arm on Mary's. Now in the first match, when Mary's arm was in Rebecah's, when I said "Flex," Rebecah flexed as hard AND as fast as she could in her effort not only to squish Mary's arm as quickly as she could but also, I think, to let me and Mary know quickly and decisively that she (Mary) wasn't nearly as tough as we thought she was and that her (Rebecah's) hard work had made her a lot tougher than Mary's working out at the gym. After experiencing Mary's uncanny hardness in that match, however, Rebecah, (wisely) suggested in the second match, where her biceps were in Mary's arm, that the two begin flexing slowly and bring their arms to a full flex over about a five-second period. Mary agreed, and after their arms were in position, I called "Flex." As in the first match, this second one was really no contest. Even before Mary had brought her arm to a full flex, Rebecah called "uncle." The totally amazed Rebecah conceded her defeat like a true professional and complimented Mary on her amazing arms. "Maybe," Rebecah said, "there's something to this working out stuff after all." Now, as I said, I personally did not feel Rebecah's arm although from the looks of it and from Rebecah's own confidence, I can reasonably conclude that it is pretty solid in its own right. Against Mary, who bills herself as "The Amazing Maiden of Muscle," however, there was no comparison. I asked Mary, after Rebecah left to bring our food, what she thought of Rebecah's arm; and, like a true champion, she said that Rebecah definitely had something to be proud of. Mary has her own page on Diana the Valkyrie and can be seen also at http://www.massivemary.com and at http://groups.msn.com/massivemary.