{"id":469,"date":"2007-06-16T15:29:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T19:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2007\/06\/16\/an-ugly-man\/"},"modified":"2007-06-16T15:29:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-16T19:29:56","slug":"an-ugly-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"An ugly man"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The Hall of Shamer<\/a>
\n..<\/p>\n

I applause those immigrants with fortitude making it in this country, I loath others who expecting a free ride.\u00a0 Working the system is smart, but taking advantage is entirely another matter.\u00a0 I’ve just met an ugliest and rudest man yesterday, on the tennis court: he’s playing with this youngster using a few very old balls, the color of the earth.\u00a0 My newly opened\u00a0Penn 2 balls looked crispy and bright.\u00a0 As soon as they arrived, we found our 3rd ball is missing.\u00a0 We first looked to my\u00a0left asked the two girls if they had our ball.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Then we looked to my right, waited till their break, asked politely if they had our balls.\u00a0
\n“No” scolded from the older man.\u00a0
\nSimon was taken back at the hush tone.\u00a0 We looked around bit more, then saw the older man holding\u00a03 balls, one bright mixed with couple of oldies.\u00a0
\n“Pls, check if you have a new Penn 2 …”\u00a0 Simon said to him.
\n“Go away.” He told Simon.\u00a0
\nI couldn’t exactly know what he’s talking about with the heavy accent (Russian?), but have good idea what he’d said.\u00a0 So I told the youngster,
\n“Pls, ask your grandpa to give back our\u00a0ball.”\u00a0
\nThe youngster said something in their native tongue, and he still refused.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Simon started walking into their court and he got agitated and telling Simon to get lost.\u00a0 Now I was\u00a0mad and felt violated.\u00a0 Did he think he could just walk into the court, and\u00a0playing with\u00a0other people’s balls?\u00a0 Didn’t he have any of his own?\u00a0\u00a0Pun aside, he might get a lot of free rides from Uncle Sam, but Auntie Irene wasn’t willing to provide him any.<\/p>\n

Sports, or tennis in particular is very gentlemanly game, we go out of our way to be courteous to other players.\u00a0 Here\u00a0he’s, boorish and disrespectful.\u00a0 How could he gets to that age without acquiring a little grace and manner?\u00a0 What kind of the world did he grow up?\u00a0 As we were conferring, Xiao Lee showed him our remaining 2 balls,
\n“Look … see if you have Penn 2 ..”\u00a0
\nThe monster grabbed one from Xiao Lee’s hand and walked away! (Xiao Lee with all his hitting power, did nothing … was powerless, lol)\u00a0… in the end, the animal returned our ball.<\/p>\n

I’ve been playing on the city parks for a long time and never ever encountered such thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 The Hall of Shamer .. I applause those immigrants with fortitude making it in this country, I loath others who expecting a free ride.\u00a0 Working the system is smart, but taking advantage is entirely another matter.\u00a0 I’ve just met an ugliest and rudest man yesterday, on the tennis court: he’s playing with this youngster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}