I'd found a website called Duplays that you register on to play sport around here. So we'd organised to go down and watch the local mens competitive basketball league on Saturday night between 7-11pm. As it was very expensive to play and you had to register and pay online beforehand we felt it was best to view first.
We arrived by taxi at 6.30pm and went into the school and found the gymnasium, grabbed a ball and the four of us started shooting hoops. Next minute a security guard comes in and tells us (not very politely) to get out and wait until 7pm. So we do.
At 7 we go back inside and watch a team warm up. An hour later we're still there watching the same team warm up. By 8.10pm there are two teams warming up but still no game started. At that stage we left. Two teams hadn't turned up but rather than get a game going nothing happened.
Talk about disorganised. No need to say that I won't be paying the 550AED required for subs for Lochie to play.
We ended up with no idea what the competition is actually like as we didn't see a game.
Just before the end, one of our group went outside and when we went out to leave he was having a smoke. Needless to say the 'friendly' security guard popped over to tell him not too. If only it was that polite. The guard yelled at him then took his photo. So his career over here may be short lived! We hightailed it out of there while we still could.
We arrived by taxi at 6.30pm and went into the school and found the gymnasium, grabbed a ball and the four of us started shooting hoops. Next minute a security guard comes in and tells us (not very politely) to get out and wait until 7pm. So we do.
At 7 we go back inside and watch a team warm up. An hour later we're still there watching the same team warm up. By 8.10pm there are two teams warming up but still no game started. At that stage we left. Two teams hadn't turned up but rather than get a game going nothing happened.
Talk about disorganised. No need to say that I won't be paying the 550AED required for subs for Lochie to play.
We ended up with no idea what the competition is actually like as we didn't see a game.
Just before the end, one of our group went outside and when we went out to leave he was having a smoke. Needless to say the 'friendly' security guard popped over to tell him not too. If only it was that polite. The guard yelled at him then took his photo. So his career over here may be short lived! We hightailed it out of there while we still could.
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