u/One_Potential_3962

What lead to the change in 2025? I guess the 2022-2024 slump comes to an end? Some speculate the slump was caused by social awkwardness after the world reopened and leagues started to play again people didn’t like losing or competing even with friends anymore. Some go into leagues and then quit after losing and vow to stay away from it.

It was a ghost town at bb courts not so long ago even during the afternoon early evening hours with one or two shooting hoops at best and no maintainance of the room at all, no resurfacing, light bulbs burn out, HVAC vents blocked, some places eventually or should I say finally decided to demolish those underutilized eyesores and expand the workout floor, but recently I was surprised to see a sign at a local gym saying don’t use buddy passes at the bb court likey to ration the crowd as the place was alive and crowded with games again quite a contrast.

I be curious what happened to cause the sudden change? Thought it was dead.

I noticed that years ago when playing ball was part of lifestyle and shoes were sturdy lifestyle armor that stayed on the day and indoor shoe etiquette wasn’t big yet; a big difference in habits is that while normal people just slip on their shoes at the door while leaving and off while entering. Many active folks lace up 15 minutes prior to leaving the house even if they walk around back inside and sometimes after a grueling game they “forget” to remove them until they are cooled down to rest.

Nowadays bb is much more formalized and people change shoes I do notice a thing at gyms I go to that those who change would wait ten minutes or so pacing around or leaning sitting before switching to slides or street shoes. Those who leave earlier without resting usually wear more sturdy shoes they play in and give final squeaks in the lobby before walking out. I know some guy who used to always kick off shoes after returning home end up forgetting after he play like if it’s an extension of his body sometimes putting them on the couch as well. Quite a habit change I never understand.

I be curious whether this is actually or past tense once a proverb to preserve the knees joints and achelles tendons? To allow muscles to warm up in sneakers prior and not abruptly subject the feet to a cold hard floor or slides immediately after playing? Or just a subcultural habit?

You think I say, I know a youngster before crocs or compression slides became a thing for him, I noticed that he’s mindset had changed to always tying up his sneakers while he is still at home preparing to leave somewhere and reluctant to deshoe returning from a pickup game until a little later. I heard he mentioned that Putting shoes on early get his mind in ready mode and that keeping supportive sneakers on during warm up or after activity can genuinely help him with Achilles tightness, knee/ACL confidence, feet soreness, fatigue, and stability on slippery floors. Which seems a safety issue after a hard game with all that jumping and likely wet socks on hard floors thus he kind of stays in them for a little while longer and sometimes do a slight squeaks just like on the gym. Now I see why people ie delivery, friends, family doing certain kinetic tasks refuse to remove shoes at my house. He also put shoes on indoors to do jumping exercises as well as well also changes to sneakers shortly after a formal event or for airport day on vacations mostly spent in sandals. I always curious why as I remember many players including family member became like that in the old days when ball was life and people practically lived in basketball sneakers even though they used to prefer shoes off asap indoors before they got into the sports it seems became an unwritten safety exemption. Can anyone explain?

Nowadays appears most people complete warm up and cool down in the center and not at home, and have commuter slides. But I see many still wait at the gym for ten minutes after hopping before getting in slides to leave and walk out with thier shoes if leaving earlier.

Now I am afraid of a driver crashing into me going out. It appears they are deactivating for not meeting impossible etas or being just one minute behind their average driver times in the area but there isn’t a typical delivery as deliveries may range quite differently from restaurant to restaurant and drop off location ie GPS to dead gate or to a complex far from the customer location. I’ll be curious whether any Customer inquiry triggers a driver vs restaurant audit having not ordered in a while.

I still remember when Dominos offered the thirty minutes or it’s free in every market in the world they start in until too many issues involving crashes of delivery drivers, pressure rudeness, undercooked food and kitchen accidents had them rethinking it. It’s most pizzas take almost an hour to deliver.

For gig workers it’s Damned if one do damned if one don’t. Apparently Restaurant or pressure to press order complete early even if it’s just inthe oven to avoid being penalized by metrics which makes it hard for the driver to claim that the restaurant kept them waiting.