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fiasco, bottom-line is that if you plan on taking this avocation seriously you will have to add some referees to your social circle. You don't have to go to bars and strip clubs with them but you will have to, at some point, have some conversations with them away from the court.
Referees have cook-outs. Referee go to sit down restaurants. Referees mill around after association meetings and talk sh!t to each other.
You speak of associating with referees as if refs are some sort of alien species. Refs are people too. I bump into an NBA official regularly at PTA assemblies and have been to the same kiddie birthday parties as his wife and son. You can make friends with other officials without frequently the local sports bar.
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A-hole formerly known as BNR
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