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Old Tue Jan 18, 2005, 01:24pm
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Originally posted by Snaqwells
I think the next time I get the stare down from a coach during a TO, I might just point to my wrist (where my watch would be) and smile.
As much as I would be tempted to do that (I'm a smart-aleck by nature), I think I'm learning that we have to be above all that stuff, as much as it might pain us. While it would really be personally satisfying to zing a coach, I think there's a reason we're instructed to just do things calmly and procedurally and at least appear to be above the fray.

Not that I wouldn't loooooooove to make some of these bench jockeys eat it, mind you. I'm just trying very hard to bite my lip and not let stuff get to me. I guess it comes with experience.
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