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Old Tue Mar 08, 2005, 09:26pm
Back In The Saddle Back In The Saddle is offline
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Have you ever had that dream where you're doing some kind of work, and you're just dog tired and you think to yourself, if I could just get this/that/the-other done I could go to sleep? I used to get it during baseball season. I would be working the plate and thinking to myself that if I could just get out of this inning, I could go to sleep. But the inning kept going on and on. (just one more reason I no longer work sports that don't have a game clock!)

I had it once while I was working at a grocery store too. I was in my checkstand, wearing my pajamas, and fuming at the customers because they could obviously see that I just wanted to go to sleep. But all I could do is just keep scanning groceries. kind of funny really.

I train and assign officials for my local church league. Their boys and girls seasons ended recently. Along come the region folks wanting to hold a tournament. They need each league in the region to provide some officials. When they see my folks work, they ask us back again the next week to work their championship rounds. Meanwhile my church league decides to start up a mens league (without talking to me about it at all). Then they tell me that after the regional tournament, they want to have a league tournament for the boys since they didn't all get to go to regionals. Then I found out that after the men's season they want to have a tournament for them too.

They're talking about starting a women's league next year. Just my luck they'll decide that the last minute men's league was such a hit that they're just going to go ahead and do women's ball this year too. Meanwhile I'm in my pajamas wondering why they can't see that I just want to go to sleep!

[Edited by Back In The Saddle on Mar 8th, 2005 at 10:31 PM]
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