Speaker 1: You too, chuckling a bit.
Speaker 2: Nothing, I don't know. Quin's got the giggles. What have
Speaker 2: you've done on Friday?
Speaker 3: What have you done? Make us feel better about ourselves?
Speaker 1: What did you do?
Speaker 3: No? I'm feeling all right.
Speaker 2: What did I do on Friday night?
Speaker 3: A week you had a bender?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did you not say that you were?
Speaker 1: You were at clubbing? You got home like four o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning.
Speaker 2: Saturday. That was Saturday?
Speaker 3: Would double up? Didn't you go out on Friday?
Speaker 1: Someone to rain it in?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I know forty, I'm not forty for still another two
Speaker 5: years watching.
Speaker 1: One of those. So Friday night went down to the
Speaker 1: McKinnon Hotel just down the road from.
Speaker 2: Me, the one place he ventres outside of his home.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Sometimes to go to the East Country. You know, it's
Speaker 1: quite cool having a coffee shop or a pub where
Speaker 1: it's like you're getting to know the staff as well.
Speaker 1: You can go down there, have a beer, watch the footy. Yep,
Speaker 1: I was going to catch up with mates like later on,
Speaker 1: but I was like, go down.
Speaker 3: Down on your larry, learnsome Yeah, that's cool, just for
Speaker 3: a beer for better Yeah, just to.
Speaker 1: Watch the footy for an hour and then it's going
Speaker 1: to catch up with friends.
Speaker 2: On Friday night. You went to the pub on your
Speaker 2: own to watch the footy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to be catching up with a
Speaker 1: mate a little bit later. Nathan was going to join
Speaker 1: me later, but I knew I could just go and
Speaker 1: kill time was.
Speaker 2: Coming half time. Why didn't you invite him from the beginning?
Speaker 1: He had something I knew.
Speaker 2: My point is I'm not buying it. I felt I'm
Speaker 2: not buying by was there. He wanted to get out.
Speaker 3: Of that doory guys to meet my mate Nate down.
Speaker 2: The pub he's one friend and be there for three hours.
Speaker 2: But that Nate was never.
Speaker 3: Coming out of town snow.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I rolled into the pub.
Speaker 2: We wearing to go to the pub on your own?
Speaker 2: Did you you didn't dress trying?
Speaker 3: You want to play?
Speaker 2: Was playing the foot I can't remember. I was not
Speaker 2: going to watch the you doing on Friday night.
Speaker 1: Here's the go. This is why I didn't get to
Speaker 1: watch the foot because I walked in. First things first,
Speaker 1: I bumped to Welsie who runs out of sales department,
Speaker 1: had a beer with him, like hello?
Speaker 5: Did he say, why are you here on your own?
Speaker 5: Did you actually have a beer with him or did
Speaker 5: you just His friends started with I had a beer
Speaker 5: with Wells, and then it went to well I said,
Speaker 5: he said.
Speaker 1: Then I walked over to the bar and wait in
Speaker 1: order a beer, and this guy comes over and he
Speaker 1: has Jase, meet you down here before? What are you
Speaker 1: coming over a beer with us?
Speaker 5: And a stranger? A stranger and I'm terrible work behind
Speaker 5: the bar.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, he was just there with his friends,
Speaker 1: and I'm terrible at saying no.
Speaker 2: A stranger said why don't you come and have a
Speaker 2: beer with us, and he said, well, I'm here on
Speaker 2: my own, I've got no friends.
Speaker 3: I'll come. So I sat there with the straight friend.
Speaker 1: There's Chris and Susan. It was the threesome.
Speaker 3: Like just.
Speaker 4: Then of the story, he's gone down to the pub
Speaker 4: for three Come on, dad, Chas and Bas listen.
Speaker 3: That's more than include you enough.
Speaker 1: I'm down there. We're chatting on your.
Speaker 2: Own with three strangers in your hoodie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then one thing leads to another use that phrase,
Speaker 1: but they start talking about I.
Speaker 2: Ordered some hot chips to share or something.
Speaker 1: They start talking about how they play pickleball, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: you can't, sorry, and I'm like Oh, I've wanted to
Speaker 1: get into pickleball, have you. I've mentioned it once.
Speaker 2: You've mentioned you were going to play squash and then
Speaker 2: you never turned up.
Speaker 1: One thing leads to another, and I have been invited
Speaker 1: to join them. What I didn't know is it's a
Speaker 1: full tournament in my area and I have been added
Speaker 1: to the group chat with thirty one members.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it says Elite Pickleball.
Speaker 2: Did you put some may on and say you've played before?
Speaker 1: Mentioned I may have picked up the bat once or twice.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday night. I've been committed to join the Elite
Speaker 1: pickle And.
Speaker 5: By the way, pickle and paddle are different sports, so
Speaker 5: you need to work out what game you're.
Speaker 3: Playing pickle no walls?
Speaker 5: Okay, so if you go play and play pickleball on
Speaker 5: Wednesday night, I would be very What are the odds
Speaker 5: should I.
Speaker 1: Should have to go? Shouldn't?
Speaker 3: I have said? I still think it's a ruse. I
Speaker 3: think the twenty twenty five Elite Pickleball.
Speaker 2: May did they tell them to bring your keys?
Speaker 1: That's it. I'm going to rock up with the bat
Speaker 1: and ball. They'll be like, why did you bring that?
Speaker 1: What's going on.
Speaker 3: That's not the.
Speaker 2: Mate rough, that's not the paddle we are.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen them like that before.
Speaker 3: Paddle Bowl.
Speaker 5: Lauren wake up feeling good following them on the socials.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I