PRO DARTS SOBERS UP

摘要

The first thing I saw as I walked up to the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham, England, was an angry old man having his packet of Sainsbury's Butter Mintoes confiscated by security. The first thing I heard was a woman shouting, "Oh, f- off, Lucy." It was February 2020. Inside were Waldos and Oompa-Loompas and jungle explorers and pageant queens and lederhosen guys and old-timey jockeys. There were hula hoop lads and men in full-body orange safety cones and a few dudes who looked like they maybe saw a movie about Hawaii once and have always wanted to go. There was a young woman dressed as an old woman of the lives-in-a-shoe variety, who fully committed to the bit by clutching her back and shuffling every time she went to get a pint. All that's required to fit in at a darts tournament, really, is to dress up as...anything.