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By Ed Skirtich
Hilarious events happened among joggers, walkers, and tennis players on an extremely hot day in August at Schenley Park Sportsplex.
As I turned the corner on the gray stoned pebbled track I saw a Caucasian man in his early 20's with a goatee and black hair wearing a black colored set of headphones totally oblivious to everything going on around him. Nothing bothered this guy. Men ran around the track with big dogs, and people either sprinted, jogged, or walked. The extreme 90 degree heat didn't bother him either.
Another funny thing was a couple in their early 20's jogged. But they went so slow I passed them up on my roller walker both times I saw them on the large, gray- stoned oval. They shuffled their feet and it sounded like "Tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp."
Also, it was hilarious watching young men and women play tennis. Their boyfriends dominated the tennis games. They smacked the tennis balls over the net a couple times. Although suddenly, the tennis ball went right smack into the net.
But the tennis players never got upset. They just volleyed the ball again.
On the benches underneath the small brown roof of a rest area, a young Caucasian lady appeared to be reading a paperback novel. The funny thing about her and so many people are that they try to look intellectual but they never turn the page of the book their reading.
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