I showed up to my first pickleball lesson without a paddle.
Even worse: I called it a racquet.
The instructor quickly corrected my language, sighed and said she would fetch extra paddles from the trunk of her car. I was the only person who arrived for class without one, but I’d read on the Apex Parks and Recreation District website that newbies did not need to bring one to the “Learn to Play Pickleball” class.
I’d signed up for this three-hour session on a Sunday morning because it fit my work schedule. I had thought about learning this sport for years, after reading about it in this very newspaper. Pickleball became a news topic because it tends to be loud, and some people who lived near pickleball courts were annoyed when the courts near their homes were active from dawn to…
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