wha?

yesterday, a group of us Tech students were chatting about working out when one girl said she preferred to run on the treadmill than outside because "i feel like i'm getting somewhere." the rest of us stared at her like she'd sprouted horns and was doing the Satan dance. (i'm not sure what exactly the Satan dance is, but i'm assuming it involves lots of leaping and pitch fork raising.) the girl kept talking like what she said made perfect sense so one guy stopped her to say, "wha?" at the point she clarified that she likes to see how far she's run and how many calories she's burned. sometimes i wonder how things can makes such sense inside our heads only to be completely misunderstood once uttered.