copied from my nostr account:

Hilarious thing happened today. Wanted to start playing more Padel, so I asked the guy at my daughter’s basketball/tennis club yesterday if I could sign up. He said show up tomorrow (Sunday) at 1:30, to enter a tournament.

So I show up at 1:30 today, but he apologizes, said he did the math wrong, there’s no spot for me, but if I want to wait around until 3:30 there’s another one that definitely has a spot. In the meantime he gets three people to play with me for half an hour on a spare court while I’m waiting.

So I wait out the other hour and half, then he sends me to the court to meet my doubles partner. She’s a 30-ish YO Dutch woman somewhere between attractive girl next door and movie actress. (I’m out of the game now, but any man would notice.)

We draw two Asian women as our opponents, and it dawns on me I’m the ONLY dude in the tournament. Basically like the trans dude getting a leg up in women’s sports. I ask my partner, and she confirms this is a women’s tournament. But they apparently were one short,I had waited two hours, and the dude never told me!

(Also keep in mind I’m almost 54 and have only played like 10 times in my life, and these women are way younger and play all the time for years.)

We ended up making the finals and losing a close match. Think I might have played a little more sloppily at the end because I would have been embarrassed to win a woman's tournament!