One Broken Door

So today I started moving my things to my new place and had a minor incident. I propped the screen door open on it's little dooflicka up the top and this prompted the top hinge to snap off resulting in the Leaning Door of Goodwood. So already I have caused trouble at my new address and I'm not sure people will pay to see this Leaning Monument To Dodgy Workmanship so I will have to fund the repairs myself. BOO.

Last night after touch training I headed to the showgrounds to play basketball with my friend. She has a team with school mates and some weeks they are struggling for players so I thought I'd go along for a run around even though I have no basketball skills whatsoever. Lucky I did go this week since only three of them turned up! It was looking to be quite a dismal game since they usually get thrashed anyway, when we realised that the other team also only had 4 players. Yar. In the end we WON! It was quite exciting. At first our opponent was all friendly and so on, but after they realised we actually wanted to (and could) win the game the game descended into a Bitch-a-rama. As usual it was the peole of smaller stature who started it all - what IS it with short people? Why do they always feel they need to make up for their height by being aggressive? The thing about basketball is that it is a contact sport which means that you expect to get a bit of hip and shoulder during the course of chasing the ball around. It means that if you don't enjoy being run into, pushed or leaned against you should probably take up another sport. Instead of taking my advice a couple of girls on the other team decided to just start slapping us whenever they could. At one point I was holding the ball up high just looking for someone to pass to and this little girl was jumping up and down in front of me, got pissed that she couldn't reach me, so just slapped me a few times. Nice. This is supposedly "social basketball" mind you. What the hell? It wasn't fun, it wasn't enjoyable, it was like a visit back to my primary school days. I think I'll stick to touch footy in the future - at least there most people have a sense of sportsmanship and fair play and can handle the incidental collisions that are unavoidable in sport without having a sook.