18 March 2006

SARS is more prevalent than you might think

I was playing interclub today and one of the balls I was playing with rolled behind the neighbouring court. I waited patiently for the rally on that court to finish. The guy at my end hit the ball in the net and I went to pick up my ball. Then I heard him scream out in his native language (he was from Eastern Europe) and a split second later heard a massive WHACK as his racquet hit the fence and then deflected off and hit me on the leg! How spastic is that!?!? Thank goodness it didn't hit me before it hit the fence.

That guy had serious anger issues. In the first set he threw his racquet and cracked the frame. In the third set he cracked another frame and then proceeded to totally destroy his racquet on the ground. I heard from one of his team mates that he broke a racquet last week too! That leads me to several conclusions
  1. His mummy didn't hug him when he was a child
  2. He can afford to buy tennis racquets every week
  3. If he runs out of racquets, don't lend him your one
  4. He has a notifiable disease: SARS (Spastic Abuse of Racquet Syndrome)

I'm certainly glad I didn't have to play him. Instead, I had to play a 13 year old kid. He also had SARS but to a lesser extent. I drove him up the wall by playing soft lobby shots which got him really frustrated. This caused frequent exacerbations of his condition. Unfortunately he was able to control his symptoms in the community setting and he ended up beating me 7-5 6-2. I really feel old now!

I'm also annoyed now because this was going to be a non-med post, but somehow I've managed to spoil it with this stupid SARS thing. Oh well, better luck next time! Tata for now!

posted by SpongeMike @ 23:34

2 Comments:

At Mon Mar 20, 06:55:00 PM GMT+12, Anonymous Anonymous said...

HAHAHA!!! Only Michael 10 can come up with things like SARS, OSCE etc etc


Good one.

Btw, whats soft lobby shots?

 
At Fri Mar 24, 12:09:00 AM GMT+12, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Havent I also seen you suffering from a related, but just as deadly disease called SAPS (spastic abuse of pen syndrome).....
Especially when Henry is within ur vicinity and is provoking you.....

 

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