Yankees couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day. It was sunshine in Long Islands after three days of downpour. The sun had been a greatest enemy earlier, rising mercury to three digits until the rain brought it down. It rained cats and dogs and somehow made way for a small torrent in my uncle's garage. Janice came early in the morning that very sunny day looking for my aunt. She was a lovely short figure in mid-twenties with limpid eyes and strong limbs. She held a tennis racket which she occasionly swung form time to time gulping water from an aquafina bottle. "Are you John?" She asked me. It seemed that she knew everything about me and my arrival. I smiled sheepishly....what could a person do when a girl caught him suddenly in a t-shirt and underwear? I had hurriedly hid my well toned thighs (thanks to those back breaking squats in the gym) behind a couch pillow. We decided to play a tennis in her house after I was through with my embarrassment. She lived a block away, in a beautiful condo which had a small swimming pool and a pretty clay tennis-court. She played well, but relied in her forehand completely missing back hand shots....made awful mistakes in double faults too. If She was Sarapova, I was Edberg. I was good in tennis but never took part in any tournament. After losing 5 straight games to me,she got mad at herself and I got tired defeating her, we then stopped playing and went to a nearest fast food joint. "Johnny boy you play tennis good", she commented. She never knew I was once beaten by an Indian guy in dehradun in a similar fashion, my figures against him was so poor, it would have made Agassi shed tears. We bumped into a bum on the way who had a coiffure like sai baba. He was relatively cleaner than what he must have been before, the rain certainly had cleaned him up. "Can I have a dollar for a beer?", he asked me. "Well, do you take mastercard?", I shot back.... but gave him a dollar anyway. He completely missed the humor but it had Janice in splits. "Gawd, you are funny". She said between giggles. A good tennis player and funny too...I was enjoying her compliments. To be continued