Speaker 1: Wow, do I look at that bad? It's one more
Speaker 1: thing more. I'm strong and getty one more.
Speaker 2: So. I had a funny thing happened at the country
Speaker 2: club yesterday. So I live in a town that doesn't
Speaker 2: believe rich people should have things that poor people don't have.
Speaker 2: So they structure the housing in such a way that
Speaker 2: you can live in the nicest neighborhood in the town
Speaker 2: I live in, like with the most expensive you know, however,
Speaker 2: many millions of dollars houses, but there is going to
Speaker 2: be an apartment complex right over there because they don't
Speaker 2: think it's fair that, you know, certain people have certain
Speaker 2: And I guess some parts of the country think this
Speaker 2: is a good idea.
Speaker 1: Other parts of the country thing this is a ridiculous idea.
Speaker 3: I would be in the way. I certainly wouldn't live there.
Speaker 3: I don't like four people anywhere.
Speaker 2: Near me anyway. I think that explains how this happened.
Speaker 2: So with this particular neighborhood that's got some really really
Speaker 2: nice houses in it, everybody that lives in this neighborhood
Speaker 2: gets a country club membership with you own the house
Speaker 2: or you're in an apartment complex, and so everybody gets
Speaker 2: to be a member of this country club. For whatever reason,
Speaker 2: hardly anybody uses aunch country club. A friend of mine
Speaker 2: is on the board and he said, of the two
Speaker 2: thousand people or something that qualify, there's only like sixty people.
Speaker 1: That use it, which is fine with me.
Speaker 4: Golf course and that sort of thing, or no, what
Speaker 4: sort of amenities are you offering me.
Speaker 2: It's a lake where a lot of people paddle around,
Speaker 2: canoes and stuff like that. Nice tennis courts lit at night,
Speaker 2: basketball court, a gym to work out, couple of heated
Speaker 2: pools where you can swim laps and stuff like that. Oh,
Speaker 2: and then a big room you can put your name
Speaker 2: on it if you want to have a family reunion
Speaker 2: or a wedding or whatever. There's a lot of that
Speaker 2: stuff going on all the time. Anyhow, my son and
Speaker 2: I go over and we play tennis and then we
Speaker 2: lift weight. So we're over there playing tennis, and I,
Speaker 2: while I do spend a fair amount of time and
Speaker 2: money on how I dress for just like my regular life,
Speaker 2: I do not have like nice ath leisure wear at all.
Speaker 2: And I got my big five old hoodie on and
Speaker 2: some khaki pants and my kind of crappy tennis shoes
Speaker 2: for playing tennis in and uh playing tennis and Kakaki.
Speaker 1: Pants lost me at Khaki's.
Speaker 4: As opposed to what short warm up pants.
Speaker 3: You don't wear khakis to play tennis.
Speaker 4: You rule.
Speaker 2: Anyway, My son and I are playing tennis and uh,
Speaker 2: and there's four guys next to us playing tennis. And
Speaker 2: at one point, Henry hits an errant shot and it
Speaker 2: goes over to their court by accident, and guy hits
Speaker 2: the ball over to me and and then I said thanks,
Speaker 2: and I'm walking back over. And then he said, hey,
Speaker 2: hold on a second, and he goes over to his
Speaker 2: bag and he comes over and he gives me, he said,
Speaker 2: these you used, but they still got a lot of
Speaker 2: bounce left in him. He gives me a canister of
Speaker 2: three used tennis ball. Ah. Yes, I'm thinking, oh my god.
Speaker 4: I mean, a man so poor he has to wear
Speaker 4: khakis to play tennis. Yeah, were you wearing cowboy boots
Speaker 4: as well?
Speaker 3: Or did.
Speaker 2: It?
Speaker 3: And something with rubber souls?
Speaker 1: I just I was so perplexed there for a second.
Speaker 1: It's like.
Speaker 2: And one it was There's a number of things going
Speaker 2: on in my mind that this at this verious time,
Speaker 2: I gotta admit my ego kick. I didn't say anything,
Speaker 2: but my ego kicked in a little bit of dude,
Speaker 2: I'm doing all right.
Speaker 1: I don't mean your old tennis balls.
Speaker 4: I can afford a can of tennis balls.
Speaker 1: Thank you, the peasant and the khaki put them.
Speaker 5: Going to do my good charitable deed and give him
Speaker 5: my old tennis exactly.
Speaker 2: I also thought, on the other side of it, this
Speaker 2: is something some of us may do and not realize
Speaker 2: how condescending it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, because he just sawt he was helping.
Speaker 2: Me out, and it's got a real I'm rich and
Speaker 2: I don't need the ten balls here.
Speaker 1: You'll appreciate they've still got some bounce at them.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: I can picture me playing golf with my son and
Speaker 4: somebody walking up and putting the arm around me and saying,
Speaker 4: here's a sleeve of balls.
Speaker 3: Brother.
Speaker 4: You know they're lightly used, but I can tell you
Speaker 4: need that.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that last time. I think that's implied.
Speaker 1: I think, oh, I absolutely implied.
Speaker 3: Yes, Why why else would he give him to you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm picturing this guy like he bounces the ball
Speaker 4: five times and then after that he throws it away,
Speaker 4: you know, and gets a new one.
Speaker 1: And bounces it by this guy doing a nice thing.
Speaker 2: In case this gets back to him, I don't think
Speaker 2: he does anything bad about it at all.
Speaker 3: Oh no, No, it was an act of kindness.
Speaker 5: And I think worse would have been if like he
Speaker 5: had a child with him, and he had the child
Speaker 5: come and give the tennis balls to you, teaching him
Speaker 5: a nice deed.
Speaker 1: Well, that's so.
Speaker 2: I told this story to a friend of mine who
Speaker 2: thought this was hilarious and said, he's probably at a
Speaker 2: home telling his wife. I did a nice deed today.
Speaker 2: I helped a guy out. He looked like good like,
Speaker 2: he looked like he was really down on his luck.
Speaker 2: It's probably his one morning a week he gets to
Speaker 2: be with his son, having recovered from his drug addiction.
Speaker 2: And I gave him some tennis balls so that he
Speaker 2: could enjoy his outing with his kid.
Speaker 1: That he's trying to write, write and do better than
Speaker 1: he did.
Speaker 4: I came across a fellow today, Honey, I can only
Speaker 4: guess he only has one pair of pants for work,
Speaker 4: for play for leisure, just one pair of khakis, who's
Speaker 4: actually playing tennis in his khakis with his son. And
Speaker 4: I took pity I wish I'd had a granola bar,
Speaker 4: a crust of bread.
Speaker 3: Dolphin can only assume that he and his son are
Speaker 3: stuff you should You should own this.
Speaker 2: He clearly got his workout gear at the halfway House
Speaker 2: before he came for his visitation with his son.
Speaker 5: Just keep keep going more and more tattered, and then
Speaker 5: see what kind of things you accumulate.
Speaker 4: Put holes in those khakis, right.
Speaker 1: People give me food and my drink and an old car.
Speaker 4: Drive the show of a dress shirt and say, son,
Speaker 4: don't run me too much.
Speaker 3: I only own this shirt. See what the people are
Speaker 3: saying to Oh my.
Speaker 2: God, And I did actually think I have I ever
Speaker 2: done that where I think I'm like being helpful whatever,
Speaker 2: But it's so condescending to someone to here's some old
Speaker 2: tennis balls.
Speaker 1: Huh. Yeah, you don't need to thank me. I'm happy
Speaker 1: to do it.
Speaker 2: That's beautiful, I know, I know, well and again well intentioned,
Speaker 2: completely intentioned. Seriously, yes, it's nice, just kind of funny.
Speaker 4: You know, here's five dollars to put in the tank
Speaker 4: to get you and your son home or back to
Speaker 4: the halfway house wherever you find yourself these days.
Speaker 1: Do you think you'll run into him?
Speaker 3: Again, I don't know. I guess if you do, he
Speaker 3: might be waiting for you with like old clothes.
Speaker 1: You know, I think these would fit you. I come
Speaker 1: with some leftover castle roll here. My wife married this
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 4: If the cardboard box, I'm guessing you live and never
Speaker 4: gets threadbare. I play every Tuesday at four. Just come
Speaker 4: and ask me for twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: Here are some socks. They're not too worn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I guess that's it.