I did a game last night, guess what?
Men's small college exhbition, part of the goal is to train the table officials. Before the game, I recognize two of the three table officials so I chat mostly with the third guy who is going to be doing the shot clock. First question I ask. Have you done this before? Answer: "I know how to do it". I don't like it when they don't answer the question. He starts to go off about how much NBA basketball he watches. Great!!!!
Finally his partner says shut up and listen to the man. So I give him my 2 minute shot clock review. Turns out he only screwed three time, not bad for his first game.
Hold on, there's more. We are ready to start the 2nd period when "NBA Guy" is on his cell. Before putting the ball in play, the whole crew is looking a him and all of a sudden he clues in. He says: "You can start I'm almost done". I said: "No we'll wait until until your finished". Never saw the cell phone after that.
On a different topic, we have a no cell phone policy at the school district where I work. No phones are to be "on" or seen at school. I go to a teacher in-service day last week with approximately 800 teachers in an auditorium. There had to be 40 or 50 teachers that I saw who were texting and about five cell phones that rang during the day. The younger teachers don't even seem to think that there is anything inappropriate about using your cell phone in that situation.