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7/2/2025, 10:42:01 AM
>decide to learn how to play tennis so I can join a club and potentially make friends
>buy a racquet from a guy on Facebook
>at night go to a local park with a special wall erected for people to bounce balls off
>try to learn how to do the strokes forehand and backhand playing ‘tennis’ with myself and serving
>after 2 weeks of practice attend my first tennis meet up at this club in my city
>I’m the only person there who has never played a game of tennis before
>everyone else came with their friends and I already feel embarrassed at being the only person out of 13 who is there alone
>it’s literally not even a ‘meet up’ it’s just the courts being open and everyone is left to organise themselves and play social games
>I’m by myself and have no idea what to do so I hang around the sidelines of one of the courts awkwardly
>some random family ‘adopt’ me and let me play doubles with them and their 13 year old daughter
>get absolutely destroyed by this child repeatedly
>mother implicitly asks if I’m intellectually disabled because she works in the disability sector
>tennis open day ends and the courts go back to being their usual rent by the hour thing
>go home just as friendless as I was before
>buy a racquet from a guy on Facebook
>at night go to a local park with a special wall erected for people to bounce balls off
>try to learn how to do the strokes forehand and backhand playing ‘tennis’ with myself and serving
>after 2 weeks of practice attend my first tennis meet up at this club in my city
>I’m the only person there who has never played a game of tennis before
>everyone else came with their friends and I already feel embarrassed at being the only person out of 13 who is there alone
>it’s literally not even a ‘meet up’ it’s just the courts being open and everyone is left to organise themselves and play social games
>I’m by myself and have no idea what to do so I hang around the sidelines of one of the courts awkwardly
>some random family ‘adopt’ me and let me play doubles with them and their 13 year old daughter
>get absolutely destroyed by this child repeatedly
>mother implicitly asks if I’m intellectually disabled because she works in the disability sector
>tennis open day ends and the courts go back to being their usual rent by the hour thing
>go home just as friendless as I was before
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