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Speaker 2: Laura.
Speaker 3: I know I just got married, but I sort of
Speaker 3: low key went on a kind of blind date.
Speaker 2: On the weekend. And it's not I don't want to
Speaker 2: say date.
Speaker 3: I went on a blind friends sporting date.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to call it.
Speaker 1: Yet you seem confused because I didn't really know this
Speaker 1: is a thing.
Speaker 3: But I feel like it's a bit of a PSA
Speaker 3: for people out there wanting to meet new people.
Speaker 2: But like as friends.
Speaker 3: So I was up on the Gold Coast and I
Speaker 3: had this new obsession with playing paddle, like the paddle tennis.
Speaker 3: If you guys don't know, it's like that little mini
Speaker 3: tennis kind of thing that you play in a glass box.
Speaker 3: Is it the same as there's a few people know
Speaker 3: there's pickleball that paddle tennis.
Speaker 1: Sorry, everyone's been trying to get me to play pickleball,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'm too pregnant for pickleball.
Speaker 2: This so my sister started.
Speaker 3: Sherry's started playing paddle at seven months pregnant, and she
Speaker 3: loved it because it's it's not as like excessive as tennis.
Speaker 3: It's really small, but ayway, whatever we're getting sidetrack.
Speaker 1: We are not sponsored by people, sponsored.
Speaker 2: By paddle or people.
Speaker 3: So but the thing is you have to play it
Speaker 3: against people, so usually you play two v two. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And so we didn't have anyone to play with because
Speaker 3: we don't have.
Speaker 2: Many friends and people work.
Speaker 3: So we found like this group where you go into
Speaker 3: a WhatsApp group and it has all these members and
Speaker 3: you just blind like put a call out for somebody
Speaker 3: to play with. So it's just adults asking other adults
Speaker 3: strangers that they.
Speaker 2: Don't know this. You don't have pictures, you don't know
Speaker 2: anything about them.
Speaker 3: You put in your level of like where how good
Speaker 3: you think you are, which we put ourselves at the bottom,
Speaker 3: So you put hay where level C minus because that's
Speaker 3: what we are.
Speaker 2: So we're hey, guys, two people C.
Speaker 3: Minus in this area looking for friends to play with,
Speaker 3: and then other people respond that are also like C
Speaker 3: minus or B and then you swap number and then
Speaker 3: you just meet.
Speaker 2: We were really nervous because we're like they're waiting.
Speaker 3: You don't know who you're looking out for, Like all
Speaker 3: these people walking past you like is that them?
Speaker 1: And then the people with the rackets usually is the giveaway,
Speaker 1: not la.
Speaker 2: You're at a place with like fifty courts. Everyone has res.
Speaker 1: You so I thought you're waiting at the front on
Speaker 1: the corner.
Speaker 2: Of the cafe. No, you go to coffee first guys.
Speaker 2: You go to the courts and it's a whole tennis court.
Speaker 2: How to go for you?
Speaker 1: Were they nice?
Speaker 2: So they normal?
Speaker 3: These two guys turned up. One was Italian, one was English.
Speaker 3: They were a bit above C minus. And it's the
Speaker 3: equivalent of on a first date, the nerves and stuff,
Speaker 3: because you you sort of have to start to get
Speaker 3: to know them, but you're also playing against them and
Speaker 3: you're trying to work out if you're friends and if
Speaker 3: you want to play again.
Speaker 1: You're not on a date, brist you're playing paddle bits
Speaker 1: a friend date.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Something that's slightly similar to this, probably actually more so
Speaker 1: that you have to kind of like I don't know
Speaker 1: how to describe it, Like I want to say feel
Speaker 1: it out, but that's not the right words. Was when
Speaker 1: I started doing solsa dancing, because you you obviously you
Speaker 1: go as a solo person. Some people go with their partners,
Speaker 1: but if you're single and you're going solo, Like, soalsa dancing,
Speaker 1: you just end up getting partnered up with someone and
Speaker 1: then you've got some random dude who's solsa dancing you.
Speaker 2: He literally is feeling.
Speaker 1: You up, and like half the time you're like.
Speaker 2: Are you heading on me? Are we friends? Are we are? We?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: What are we doing here?
Speaker 1: And it's just like there's a weird dynamic that happens
Speaker 1: because like you can obviously grow souls dancing, it's very platonic,
Speaker 1: but there's a part of you that's like, how do
Speaker 1: I make sure this person knows that this is a
Speaker 1: platonic experience for him as well?
Speaker 3: Well, I just thought it was a really good way
Speaker 3: to make friends as an adult, but it was funny.
Speaker 3: So what happened was they came as twos and they'd
Speaker 3: only met through paddle as well, so they've been playing
Speaker 3: together for a few weeks. We went as three, so myself, Sherry,
Speaker 3: my sister, and her partner and we just one of
Speaker 3: us just rotated through. Anyway, we played for an hour
Speaker 3: and a half, had a great time, got to know
Speaker 3: each other. Then afterwards one of the guys texted Jay
Speaker 3: separately out of the group and asked to switch partners,
Speaker 3: and he said, will you be my new paddle friend?
Speaker 3: And he didn't want to play with me and Sherry
Speaker 3: and he didn't want to play with his friends.
Speaker 2: So it was like this weird couple breakup. We only
Speaker 2: just got together and now they're going off as too.
Speaker 1: Okay, anyway, grace, did you produce a grace?
Speaker 2: Did you allow this? I didn't know would go in this.
Speaker 2: It's weird. It's a whole new world out there. A
Speaker 2: lot happened on BRIT's weekend. Hey, it was a real
Speaker 2: well one. Sorry. Sorry, that's the life I leave. Give group.
Speaker 2: Give us the update. I want to know. Did you
Speaker 2: guys become friends? What happened next? Yes, we're friends. Oh great,
Speaker 2: that's my point, Laura.
Speaker 3: If people are out there, it's really hard to make
Speaker 3: friends as an adult.
Speaker 2: And I'm just putting this out there for people. Produce
Speaker 2: a grace. Joined to Adult Gardening Center. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 2: community garden. Oh my god, ieer you continue and we've
Speaker 2: made some lovely friends. We all have hats that say
Speaker 2: city farmer. How old is everyone in this group? Range?
Speaker 2: Beg range?
Speaker 1: It would be the community garden, wouldn't it great?
Speaker 2: All right,