“Hey, mister. What’s going on with that shirt?”
“It’s one of Simone’s camp shirts,” he said with a wide smile.
“I can see that, but it’s on inside out.”
“Oh gosh. I wondered why it felt different today. Let me check to make sure I put on shorts,” he said before stripping off his pants to play.
Just a quick warning to those under 50. We seniors will forget to put clothes on correctly and forget shorts. Just be ready…for it to happen to you and to see it.
I gave myself a pep talk before arriving at the courts today because I thought there would be a chance people were still mad at me for leaving on Friday, even though no one had to stop playing due to my exit. In the event a similar scenario occurred I wanted to already have a gameplan on what to practice and I decided it would be serves.
One of the main people in our group is on vacation so we had some subs. The rotation wasn’t as bad as it was last week, I think I did play with everyone today. I definitely didn’t feel isolated, I got balls and I promptly screwed up the shots. When I play like I did today I can never understand why anyone would ever try to avoid me. One of the guys said something about me being mad last week and I told him I wasn’t ever mad, I was hurt, but he said to take it as a compliment. I guess it is.
I went back and forth between my Selkirk and my Icon and I think it’s official – I’m not using the Selkirk if I’m playing with a Franklin ball. I’ll pack another Icon in my bag and if I feel like I need a change to snap out of a funk I’ll just grab a different Icon to make that happen.
The other lefty lady had an amazing ATP today (sadly, off my shot) but my only success was a handful of serves that did perform the way I expected. I’ve got to do some basement drills with my machine because I’m dropping my paddle way too much – at the net and when I’m being aggressive. Body shots are still winners against me and when I go to put down a pop-up off a successful drop I’m hitting it in the net. It’s time to get the ball in my armpit and get some repetition to stop making those mistakes.
When I got home I had an email from DUPR letting me know I’m now a member at 5 Seasons Sports Club in Cincinnati. I’m not a member there. Who knows who will say they played me if I stay a member at a place I don’t play. Additionally, and oddly, I can admit that since I don’t trust DUPR I’ve been taking screenshots of my dashboard for months. There were a few times my DUPR went up without me playing so I assumed the same could happen in reverse, which is why I stalk my own profile. Not that DUPR would do anything about it if it did go down, but still, I watch it. Today was one of my screen shot days. Before I left to play today I had 80 matches. When I came back and saw the email about a club being added I went to my profile again (to remove the club) and I had 157 matches. My DUPR didn’t go down (yet) but 77 matches magically appeared. The website is so bad you can’t view your history easily so I have no idea where they found 77 additional matches. It certainly didn’t happen in the 3 hours I was away from my computer. I had so much hope in DUPR but it seems like it’s just as bad as UTPR. The only difference being my rating is more than a point higher with DUPR, which is a solid reason for me to like it.
