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It all started at the pub (as all the best adventures do)…

New Chris was celebrating, after passing his 3 months probation, while the rest of us were drowning our sorrows at being stuck with the big man for the foreseeable future

James was blithering on about some film I should watch before The Great South Run on Sunday, and going on and on about ‘Hitting the wall’ and ‘Getting through the wall’ and ‘Being the wall’, while Jon was starting to feel more and more sleepy.

Sarah was still trying to figure out if she actually did need some new windows after all, while Jake was deciding how many times he needed to look like he was leaving, before it was actually OK to leave.

So, we eventually left the pub and dropped Old Chris at the station ahead of his long journey home. Then Jon and I went and bought our Winza (a pizza made of win) so that we could just shove it in the oven after our game of tennis.

Now tennis, to re-cap, Jon was 5-2 up in the 3rd set and about to win the match. Which, despite all my efforts, he did. Then we got the 4th set underway with some great rallies, some terrible serves and shots with so much time to plan, that we inevitably failed to deliver.

But then something strange happened…. it was 2 games each in the 4th, and we were playing some great tennis. This was a real competition. After being 40-love down, Jon fought his way back to deuce. He’d worked really hard to pull it back and there was no way he was going to let that winning ball land in.

At least, in his mind, there was ‘no way’.

Three things got in his way; gravity, a wall, and the undeniable fact that Jon isn’t actually Super.

1) A paramedic 2) Nasty head-wound 3) Obligatory swearing 4) Skirt.

Jon One, 26 and born 18th June 1987, was attended to by paramedics court-side at about half eight on Tuesday evening.

“Running for tennis ball. Collided into wall. Not KO’d”

Jon Two, 26 and born 18th May 1982, was attended to by a paramedic in his front room at about 10pm on Tuesday evening.

“This PM, while playing tennis, accidentally fell into a wall hitting his head and elbow. Not KO’d”

Two different Jons got to the ball.
The point still counted.
I won the game.