So since I got married, exercise has been… well, non-existent.  So I let a friend of mine, Josh Robinson, talk me into playing tennis with him. We probably got a little too excited about it because by the end of the conversation we had decided to join a tennis league.  In high school I played on the tennis team, so I thought it couldn’t be that hard to get back into it.  I was wrong.

I stand 6 foot 6 and Josh in 6 foot 1 and we are both athletic.  My expectation was to walk out on the court and … well, win.  The expectation of victory grew further when we were paired against a man in his forties with a gimp leg and a 12 year old boy that tripped over himself 3 times just walking to the court. Let’s just say that tennis is not “like riding a bike.”  We got beat so badly that the 12 year old left saying “I got a real match to play.”  About that time I was wishing tennis was a full contact sport.

Humility is sometimes an embarrassing lesson to learn.