OK, Friday a "buddy" called and asked if I wanted to work ONE game at a local high school, 3-person crew, $50 each. I've been working a lot of softball and thought this might be a good chance to try out my newly rehabed achilles tendon. I get to the gym and ask the coach who he's playing and he said "which game?" I thought "uh oh" . . . but said "How many games are there?" Come to find out there are 4 games in each of two gyms and we are only working 2-person. Now I'm thinking OMG! Then, just as you think that the night is as bleak as it can get - it gets worse. We started our first game and they come to our gym and tell us there are no officials in the other gym. So I volunteer to leave the larger floor to go to the smaller floor forgetting that there is no A/C in that gym and have to ref 3 games solo. These are all varsity level and all of them are the largest classification in the state (AAA) so that means they aren't walking it up the floor. They did only play a 25 min game with a running clock . . . but when you have teams pushing the ball up the floor for 25 min non-stop it's exhauting. I tried going 28' line to 28' line but realized quickly that I couldn't see crap from there so I started working top of key to key and going further down as needed. The fourth game we did 2-person but were both dead by then.
Here's my question - how do I exact my revenge on my buddy? We will work several times together this year . . . I'm thinking something involving a tazer when he comes out of the shower . . . there's just something about him wollowing on the floor with no control of body functions that appeals to me right now.
Any idea?
I don't have enough ice packs to cover everything that needs covered so I'm thinking about preparing an ice-bath . . . wish me luck!
Forgot to mention that I had a fight in the second game which resulted in 2 ejections!