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Who would want to go to
to have fun? "Hey guys, let's all go hang out at the, uh, school gym! No? How about the union hall?"
Maybe people had lower standards back before technology made having fun alone at home easy.
This highlights the modern lack of community. You'd go there to see friends.
You'd go to the school gym to see friends? I don't even know if I'm being sarcastic. On the one hand, I don't think I'd do that no matter how many friends I had and how nice the gym was because it's such a bizarre thing to do. On the other hand, the past is often bizarre.
Yes, you go to the gym to see people you know and excerise with them. School gyms used to be more publicly available than they are today. Just because you've never had an excercise buddy doesn't mean that the experience is bizzare, it's still a common thing to do today (but gatekept by private gyms)
Compare it to some other public space and see how ludicrous it sounds:
See? You're used to people doing those things so it sounds normal, but exercising with your friends is just as normal as drinking with your friends.
People do all sorts of things with their friends, but the reasons they do them invariably include "I like spending time with my friends." Hell, I help my friends do home improvement projects because it's just nice to do something productive with my friends. I'm certainly not going to install a new door on a friend's house if they're going to be away at work, so clearly the real reason is that I like spending time with my friends.