When Tom was young, he liked to play football, and he was very good at it. But then he went to work in a town and there was no team for him. So he stopped playing.
Later he began to get rather fat, so he thought, "since I stopped playing football, I was getting fat. What am I going to do?" He thought about it for a few days, and then he said to himself, "I know, I'll play tennis."
He had a few lessons, and then played for a few months. He met a nice girl at the tennis club one day, and they played a tennis match against another young man and woman. Tom played very badly and was very angry with himself. "I've never played as badly as this before," he said to the girl.
—He decided to_______.
