[JRutledge]

I have a good one. Well, I am a younger individual and it is not unusual for those in my generation to wear earings of some kind. I am not one that cares for tongue rings personally, but that is just a little background for my story.

It was sometime in mid March, nothing going on for basketball or anything else like that and still some weeks before baseball started for me too. I had been wearing some earings that I had usually not put in at all during football and basketball season. Well I was asked to do a 5th and 6th grade girls basketball championship tournament game at a school not far by. I think this was my first or second year, and I had not done a game in probably 3 or 4 weeks at that time. So my partner and I go out on the court and give a short captains meeting and telling to take out all jewelry off and all earings off. My partner allowed me to do this (he started me officiating and was my mentor) up until right as we were about to leave the table to jump the ball up. Well, he told me, "you know you have your earings in, don't you?" I just froze and started to laugh. The coaches laughed, the fans laughed and even a couple of players laughed. And in the end, my partner had the biggest gag. It was really funny actually, but boy did I feel stupid after my jewelry speech.