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Just Not Tennis

# 2012-05-06 21:42:00, ulaca
It was touch and go at the weekend for our semi-regular tennis four but in the end we got a decent workout and something of an education on the Hongkie mindset to boot. Touch and go, I say, not just because of the weather, but because I had forgotten to book the court for our two-hour stint, and only remembered just before one o’clock, when the management offices closes for lunch. Fortunately, my blushes were saved when one of the two courts was still available for the required time slot of 3-5pm. A quick bite of lunch and I was back downstairs at 2.45pm to clear the puddles off Court A with the squeegee thing. Just before 3 o’clock a chap turned up and started to mop up Court B. He’d got half the playing surface done when his partner turned up. However, instead of clearing the other half of the court, the newcomer had a brief chat with his mate and wandered over to me.“Which court are you on?” he asked, somewhat redundantly, I thought.Having ascertained that I had booked the...