Updraft — Oversized Tee

You stop to watch because the ball has come near the bench. A player retrieves it, says thanks although you have not done anything, and runs back to the game. Apparently you have joined the afternoon.

You do not know either team. This offers a useful period of neutrality during which you can admire a good attempt without being required to explain its wider significance. The person at the far end has excellent socks. The person nearer you looks like someone you used to work with, but moves too enthusiastically for this to be likely.

After ten minutes you have preferences. One side makes a great deal of noise before anything happens. The other appears to contain a player who has been personally offended by the concept of passing. You choose a side on the basis of a particularly generous bit of play and immediately begin to worry about its judgment.

The broad brick tee was a good choice for sitting out here. You liked it with the light trousers when you left, and now the color looks even better beside the green. You stretch your legs farther under the bench and become available for the next development.

Someone scores. You applaud with more knowledge than you possessed when you arrived and considerably less than your expression suggests. The player with the good socks glances over. You nod as though this was the outcome you had been waiting for. By now, rather inconveniently, it was.

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