What would you do in this situation?

TheCenturion

TheCenturion

TheCenturion

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Been to the park with my little brother 3 times today. He wanted to play tennis, but the first two times, the courts were completely full. The third time, all the courts were full, but on one of them was a group playing with a football. Hmmm. I went up to the group and said:

"Excuse me, please can we play tennis on here?" I then pointed them to a sign which said 'no football permitted'

One of them tried telling me "We are playing tennis, we are playing a tennis game"

I thought for a second, does kicking a football across the court constitute tennis? Nope. So I told them:

"You can't tell me you're playing tennis, look that's a football. You play tennis with a tennis ball, not a football"

One of them then whispered something to another, who disappeared off for a few mins and returned with tennis rackets and a tennis ball. A couple of them then started playing tennis on the court.

Fortunately, at that very point a court became free and we went over to start playing. I looked back and the group had started playing with their football again. So they were playing tennis for all of 30 seconds.

Now, I'm wondering what would have happened if the other court hadn't become free. I reckon that what they were planning on doing was to 'play' tennis, wait for us to leave then keep playing with their football. Me and my brother played tennis for an hour and then left, the group was still their playing with their football on the court. Basically, I reckon they had no intention of letting us use it. So if you'd been in this situation, and another court hadn't become available for you to use, what would you have done?

Thanks.
 
I would stop complaining and be glad they aren't playing "Tennis" against your car.
 
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Fenris said:
I would stop complaining and be glad they aren't playing "Tennis" against your car.
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It was actually my brother who was complaining. I was trying to tell him just to wait for a court to become available, but he was getting really upset about it. Got no idea why :o


chaosdestro0 said:
Go and steal their ball and if they go and get another one, just do it again.

Or alternatively, stand and bang.
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Hehe, little old me versus 5 or 6 of them. Not a chance :p
 
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Would have just went on the same court and started playing, but that's me.

A similar thing happened to me a few years back. Some kids were sitting on top of the cross bar and wouldn't move when we said we'd like to play football, so we just started playing there anyway. I thought **** this and hit it as hard as possible at them, knocked one off and fractured his arm. Got told off for that as well, ridiculous. :o
 
TheCenturion said:
It was actually my brother who was complaining. Got no idea why :o
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Probably something to do with the fact that a lot of kids are naive (in the nicest possible way) enough to believe that the right thing should happen all the time and if it doesn't that there's something wrong with the world.

Just my 2 pence :D :p
 
TheCenturion said:
Brother really really wanted to play on the courts. Little guy hardly ever gets to spend much time with me, and we'd already been twice trying to get a court.
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sucks but thats how it goes i guess, unless the park ranger is around theres not really anything you can do imo.

i'd just suck it up and go play on the football field or somewhere else suitable, but at the park near me the courts are multipurpose, basketball net + football goals dented into the court fencing + cricket wickets painting onto the court fence.
 
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