Episode 32: Sorry for the Inconvenience

A fifteen-year-old asked Long to help with her racket restringing — a completely ordinary request — and apologised for the inconvenience. This episode is about those four words, and what he wrote back. About what it means when a young person has learned to treat their own needs as a burden on the adults around them. About why "no problem" doesn't reach the belief underneath the apology. And about what trust is actually made of — not technical instruction, not feeding balls, but the unremarkable follow-through that teaches a young person their words have weight and they are worth remembering.