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ChadTower:
I was on our high school tennis team for three years - very weak team because it was a low income area and I was one of our only good players. There was a fat kid on our team that played doubles. He was nearly immobile - fast hands but his feet were like lead. Somehow, a few games into every single match, the opponents would decide that instead of hitting the ball past him they would rocket the ball at him on every other point. He'd take balls off the face, neck, chest... I'd be watching trying not to laugh but damn was that some funny stuff.
whammoed:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 01, 2008, 10:47:36 am --- He'd take balls off the face, neck, chest... I'd be watching trying not to laugh but damn was that some funny stuff.
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I laughed just reading that.
I once had an opponent who refused to give up the net even though he popped up a high, easy forehand on my side very close to the net. I just couldn't resist the urge and hit him right in the face with the shot. Only time I've ever knocked down an opponent in a match. He had immediate swelling...looked like he got punched in the face.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: whammoed on February 01, 2008, 11:04:08 am ---I laughed just reading that.
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There were a couple of towns in the area that were very wealthy - summer houses for megarich wealthy. The kids from these towns, when they played our school in the "money" sports (tennis, hockey, etc) would be hardcore arrogant and would just taunt the crap out of us (we would return the favor in less "money" sports - football, basketball, etc). I could play tennis with those kids but was one of only two in our school that could. Those kids would just tool on this fat kid - I mean yelling right across the net about how fat, stupid, poor, ugly, aborted, handicapped, he must have been. I remember one doubles pair in particular spent the whole match making loud jokes about "his tits". They were loudly talking back and forth about which one to hit - and making bets on "who can hit the left tit first", stuff like that. They were just brutal to this kid.
The dumbest part? The kid would just take it - despite being 6-2 275 and strong as a house. I still don't understand why.
shardian:
I don't understand why tennis is a money sport anyways. In my area, I have my pick of several nice public tennis court areas. Rackets aren't expensive at all for a decent one. Anyone can play and the rules are easy. I've played recreationally my whole life, but never tried for the team because "I wasn't a rich kid", and because I wasn't skinny. Even though I could hang with almost all of them, I felt I wasn't part of the club. My wife played on her Middle School tennis team, but was ridiculed and bumped down in rank because she wasn't one of the rich kids.
I took a Tennis class in college and met two guys who were life long players for good school teams. I played quite regularly against them until I switched colleges. That just pissed me off more because after playing real competition on a regular basis made me realize what all I missed out on because of the "rich kid" image of Tennis.
I hope that I can get my little girl to play tennis, that way she can whoop ass on all of those rich punks. >:D
knave:
I was tearing the shingles off of my roof and when I reached the peak I thought it would be a good idea to use a prybar to slide under the remaining shingles to loosten them.
I was vigorously sliding the bar under the shingles when one particularly hard push went too far and the asphalt shingal slid under my right thumbnail allmost to the cuticle.
Hurt like a Mofo. Worse still after I pulled the shingle out from under my nail I had bits or tar and grit embedded under there. Cleaning them out was not fun.
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