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Originally Posted by FloridaGuy66
I am a frequent user of three different pools, several pickleball locations and several rec centers for over three years.
I have not once saw any person from outside of TV using our recreational facilities. I have discussed this with MANY other people all over TV and have not heard of any first hand accounts of this happening.
If this was a common problem, then I would expect to have at least heard about it happening once or twice. Certainly doesn't seem like something we should be spending extra money on.
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Well, this is not impossible at all. I don't mean to be disparaging or brush with a wide brush, but it could come down to your personal situational awareness.
If you were a street cop, or a trained fighter, or someone else who is always looking around, paying attention to people, drawing conclusions about them from presented evidence and observations, then I would be shocked you'd never seen outsiders.
If you spent your career as an engineer or in some other cubicle profession with a hyper focus on detail or the bottom line and not on the macro picture around you and your surroundings, then this is entirely plausible.
It's amazing to me when I can observe and state, "he's on drugs" or, "those are illegals" or, "they're European" or, "that guys a parolee / convict." People sometimes get all bent out of shape and condescendingly demand, "How can you know that? You can't make those judgements about someone!!" Oh, but I can and I do. So do many others. Once you know what you're looking for and seeing - and your personality is one to actively observe others, then of course conclusions are drawn with solid probabilities of accuracy. Different ways of people standing, what they're looking at and how, how they go about what they're doing, how they are groomed and dressed, these are all details some notice casually. For some of us, a constant "game" of risk and threat assessment doesn't end with retirement.
If you know, you know and others can often be oblivious. Like I heard a guy say once, when you're stopped at a traffic light, are you looking at your phone, the car radio, the traffic light in front of you, absorbed in conversation with your passengers, or are you looking around at the other vehicles and occupants pulled up next to you? You know who is always looking around, prepared for someone to approach their car? Criminals and cops.
So, depending on which camp one falls into based on one's life experiences, training, or professional skill development, it is entirely plausible to have spent three years be-bopping around the bubble without having the first clue who is around you - or isn't.