Yesterday was the first home game I was back since winter break, and so the guy in charge wasn't sure if I would be there, and I had no assigned duties (read, I got paid to sit and watch a basketball game just for running reports at halftime and the end of the game
), so I sat at one end of the scorer's table.
Midway through the first half, the home mascot took a seat on my left, and started doing the "poke his right shoulder thinking he won't know the guy on the left poked him routine" for the crowd. According to someone sitting on my right, he then proceeded to direct gestures at me. My take is that the best thing to do is ignore the situation. If you let yourself get pulled in, it just gives fuel to the crowd.