[LarryS]

Hollywood,
The only time I speak to the officials at my daughter's games is when I am curious about why they called something a particular way. When doing so, I am trying to find out if, with their better angle, they saw something else or were interpreting something differently than I would have given what happened. I always try to ask the question in a way that lets them know I am not questioning their ability, just trying to learn and improve my game.

If, during our conversation they quote a rule that I read differently I simply say something along the lines of "I will have to re-read that rule when I get home, I thought it meant (insert appropriate wording here)". Most of times I have approached them, they said they could not remember the play. Either that was true or they did not want to discuss it and were trying to take an easy out...so I let them have the out and dropped it.