The Gym Membership Hassle: Canceling vs. Signing Up

I don’t know why gyms make it so difficult to cancel your membership. I went on May 30th to cancel my gym membership. The lady was like, oh, you will get charge for June because you canceling it a day before we were all supposed to charge. I was like, okay, that’s fine. I’m not worried about it. And then that charge for June, no problem. And then yesterday I got charged for July. She gave me a paper that says it was cancelled. So like, was it cancelled or I, is it not canceled? Like, I don’t get it. And it’s not like I can bring somebody with me. I’m paying $52 a month. I can’t even bring anybody with me. Like I already go to Planet Fitness or one of these other gyms and spend $20 and I can bring a friend on my partner. It’s like you guys make it so difficult, but I can just go online and sign up on my own. You make it so difficult to cancel, but signing up just takes like five minutes. Like, oh my god, I can’t.