Ugh. My parents' neighborhood is finally emerging from years of legal action for the right to play pickleball on their pickleball courts.

They live in a planned community filled with retirees (many of them former lawyers) with absolutely nothing else to do with their day than plot and scheme over ways to obstruct their able-bodied neighbors who want to get some exercise. It's the perfect sport for them (neighbor-fighting, not pickleball).

The fight is so vicious because the stakes are so small. For years, my folks would just drive past the empty courts on the way out of the development to the neighborhood a few miles away with fewer retired lawyers.