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BHitterDPasser · 08-04-2006, 10:18 PM

I don't know if this a rule or should be, but be courteous... Last month I did a doubles tournament and made it out of pool. In the semis I was playing against a team whose friends had not made it out of pool on their net. The friends decided to camp out at our net and set up between the guide lines. Now I realize that this was outside, and this was a public park, but when I asked them not to smoke they gave me crap. I felt I was within my right to ask them since I was going to be the one on the court exerting himself and having the smoke as a distraction and there were a few 100 other acres where they could smoke.

Your thoughts? Watching an outdoor doubles tournament, sitting a few feet off the court and smoking a few butts, cool or uncool?

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BHitterDPasser Moderator Status: Offline Posts: 569 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Central, CT	08-04-2006, 10:18 PM I don't know if this a rule or should be, but be courteous... Last month I did a doubles tournament and made it out of pool. In the semis I was playing against a team whose friends had not made it out of pool on their net. The friends decided to camp out at our net and set up between the guide lines. Now I realize that this was outside, and this was a public park, but when I asked them not to smoke they gave me crap. I felt I was within my right to ask them since I was going to be the one on the court exerting himself and having the smoke as a distraction and there were a few 100 other acres where they could smoke. Your thoughts? Watching an outdoor doubles tournament, sitting a few feet off the court and smoking a few butts, cool or uncool? There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.