What makes you happy ?

Mainly for health reasons and partly for curiosity I had my first of 10 tanning sessions. It’s not that I want a tan because I dislike that look (though a white t-shirt and the newly honed bod could look good…..) and I know the downsides of sunbeds but it’s something that the GP says would be good.
Anyway, it’s at the fitness place. Questionnaire about my skin type, do I burn, what colour/depth tan do I get, bad reactions to the sun etc and then they work out that 10*5 minute sessions will see me done. It was £22.50 if you do the cost thing. That was all last week and today I went for the first go.

I got the choice of sunbed or standup. I chose the latter. I get shown to a room, given the token to make it work, given a couple of details and off she goes. ‘The tanning tube’ must be six feet wide black structure with about a quarter of it being the door which opens outwards. Inside it’s floor to top of white vertical tubes behind a plastic cover. The floor has small vent holes in as does the ceiling bit. In the ceiling part is a metal handle that forms an almost complete circle. She’s given me two foil eye covers which are to stick over my eyes. 5 minutes. Can’t get bored in 5 minutes. And then I get to decide just what sort of tan I want - “white bits” or “no white bits”. I decide my butt needs a tan so everything comes off. Drop the token into the machine, hop into the machine and close the door. I reached up and grabbed the handle. And just then it got very bright and very warm.
I don’t know if the machine was blowing warm air or if the tanning tubes were emitting a lot of heat but it was very warm. The air was moving bottom to top which I though was odd. The fan was also somewhat noisy. But otherwise I’m there being bathed in whatever the tanning machine was throwing at me, holding onto the handle at the top, stretching and being naked. It’s very odd being naked somewhere other than a shower outside of the home. Even though the door was locked outside it was still a little odd. It ends very abruptly.
In the few minutes after I felt tingly and parts of my skin felt warm (that’s head / arms / shoulder parts). As a first go it wasn’t unpleasant and I have no intention of reading about skin damage (just what isn’t dangerous these days?) so in a couple of days I’ll do it again. With going to San Francisco and wherever the other holiday is I’ll be prepared and looking not too pasty. (Thing is though, if it does the job, I’ll need to keep going…)