What’s your adult sport?

My gym has two squash courts and they are often being used. Never played.

Our gym also has a thriving pickleball crowd and put in three courts when they refinished the basketball floor. As others have said, tennis with ping pong paddles (they might be a little bigger) and whiffle balls. I've only seem doubles played. They can get pretty serious.

 

And you can blame SJ.com when you don't get that scholarship.

 

My platonic Gay male life partner throws fits every time I hit pucks against the side of the house.

Him: You're gonna get yourself killed and you are not right with The Lord! Why can't you take up kayaking like everybody else's older maiden aunts?

Me: I thought you were about to suggest softball.

Him: You don't qualify for Sappho's Sluggers and it would be the same thing, girlie. Those lesbeeeens would hurt you.

(Next door neighbor stops what he's doing and openly eavesdrops. I'm pretty sure "lesbian" parses as "watchable" to him.)

Him: Don't get your hopes up, Billy Bob. She's asexual.

Me: Well, thanks for clearing that up for everyone. (Goes inside to do needlepoint so I can stab something a thousand times and get a pretty thing out of it. Sometimes being in a Southern neighborhood sucks.)

 

Wait. I thought that was soccer, from 1980-2010?

 

That's my other adult sport. Living in this crappy climate, you need something to make the winter fun. We go a few times a year at a local mountain about 45 minutes away and, in normal times, go up to Vermont every President's Day weekend for real skiing. Expensive, but a great family activity.

 

This made me laugh myself helpless three different times. Well done, girl.

 

Your wife coaches as Bishop Sycamore?

 

Played tennis twice today and walked with a friend for an hour. No need for the melatonin tonight.

 

I took up curling about 12 years ago. Didn't get to play much but loved it. Joined a club 3 years ago. The pandemic killed some momentum, but wife and I plan to play a mixed team with another couple this year on Sunday nights.
Even if we go 0-for ... we end the night with a few beers and laughs.

 

Back in high school we played this stupid game on the squash court with a tennis ball. You threw the ball against the wall and if someone muffed the rebound, that person had to sprint and touch the wall before somebody hit them with the tennis ball. If they got hit before the touch, they had to line up facing the wall bent over and everyone got a free shot at their ass.

 

We played that too in junior high in the 1970s. Called it Buns Up.

A friend has a story about getting punched by Darryl Strawberry during a game of Buns Up. Straw, was bused to our suburban school from the inner city, was suspended.

 

Ha, we played that too, although I can't remember what we called it. Although, not everyone got a free shot at the guy - Only the person who caught the ball after the misplay, and only if their throw beat the person to the wall. We also played a more benign version as a drill for our intramural softball team, with points instead of getting pegged by a softball.