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Ugh. My parents' neighborhood is finally emerging from years of legal action for the right to play pickleball on their pickleball courts. They live in a plann
by jasonkester 4y ago
Ugh. My parents' neighborhood is finally emerging from years of legal action for the right to play pickleball on their pickleball courts.
They live in a planned community filled with retirees (many of them former lawyers) with absolutely nothing else to do with their day than plot and scheme over ways to obstruct their able-bodied neighbors who want to get some exercise. It's the perfect sport for them (neighbor-fighting, not pickleball).
The fight is so vicious because the stakes are so small. For years, my folks would just drive past the empty courts on the way out of the development to the neighborhood a few miles away with fewer retired lawyers.
- djmips 4y agoI'm not old or a lawyer but pickleball is kind of annoying. It doesn't mean I also like leaf blowers. Those should be banned. Not sure about pickleball though - I'm with you on the benefits.
- ramphastidae 4y agoYou sound incredibly biased. It’s a retirement community, not your parents’ personal gym. If the residents of the community are all upset, maybe it’s your parents that need to find something (or somewhere) better to do.
- jasonkester 4y agoIt actually is my parents' personal gym that we're talking about though. It includes a pool, tennis courts, pickleball courts and an 18 hole golf course. It's in the brochure for the place (which, despite being planned is not a retirement community), and one of its main selling points. There are 500 houses in the development, two of which don't like that particular fragment of the recreation facility.