From tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors:
Hey, it’s sports in Seattle!
From Axios’ morning email thingie, so the weird formatting and odd bullets are totally theirs:
“‘Adult Recess’ Is Booming,” with people reliving schoolyard memories with tetherball, hopscotch and Lincoln Logs, despite sore muscles and tweaked knees, The Wall Street Journal’s Jim Carlton reports (subscription):
- “In Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park, about 1,000 men and women turned out for an adult recess … that included kickball, hopscotch and tetherball, along with chicken nuggets and grilled cheese.”
- “In Greensboro, N.C., the city decided to put on an adult recess [that] included Twister, four square and tetherball.”
Afterward, many head to a bar.
Imma call bullshit. Jim Carlton clearly is out of his depth in reporting how infantile Seattle is.
As Cal Anderson PLAYFIELD is in my neighborhood and I walk past it at least twice daily, I can confirm that are no tetherball courts anywhere in the playfield or park, I’ve never seen anyone playing kickball. It’s a big park/playfield, BUT 1K hipsters playing four square? Hopscotch? It would be noticeable. Also: There is no large expanse of concrete to do this, so this is also patently BS.