Quote Originally Posted by Spartan View Post
That's utterly shameful. Sorry to hear.

In Sweden they go to great lengths to make tennis publicly accessible, as with everything else. Here in Uppsala they actually have a few outdoor courts that are designated winter courts which they scrape and keep snow off of, and keep dry, and all that. It's really awesome. Free.

I plan on responding to all of you guys in time. I appreciate all of you, and I appreciate the thought I stirred up. Good job guys. Yes, Oklahoma's weather is both a curse and a blessing in many different ways..but there's no reason public infrastructure can't embrace that and make it a good thing. If Sweden can have outdoor courts...

On the other side, Europe is kinda lonely. Swedes are very quiet and reserved, which I am not. I'm not boisterous, but by Uppsala-standards, I guess so. It's amazing how lonely it can be in the most beautiful surroundings I have ever seen. Stockholm is pretty awesome too...much more of a monumental setting than OKC, or even Calgary.
In Oklahoma, it's hard to have anything good that's free and public, because of people complaining it shouldn't be free, because they are not interested in participating in it. So their tax dollars shouldn't be spent in such ways. And we do have some municipal gulf courses in some towns in Oklahoma, but they tend to lose money with people who don't play golf complaining they should be sold to the private sector.