[Mark Padgett]

Well, Juulie and I did our first scheduled summer league games tonight, sort of, and they went just fine. I say "sort of" because she had to leave me alone for the 2nd game of our 3 game set to fill in across the street at another gym because someone didn't show up.

In our first game, one of the howler monkeys started yapping at her near the end of the game. It was something about how if she had only "been calling the fouls", his team would have "been in the game." Yeah, suuuure. They lost 50-16. Of course, it was all Juulie's fault.

At halftime of the second game, some moron started to come out of the stands to complain to me. He said, "Why aren't you blah, blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda?" Right in the middle of one of his incoherent sentences, I put up the stop sign and said, "I'm sorry. I don't talk to civilians." Then I turned and walked away. When I reached the table, I looked at him and his jaw was hitting the top of his Keds. BTW - the halftime score of this game was 8-6! This was freshman girls. I told the clock person that the league had a rule that if a team didn't score at least 10 points in a game, the coach had to run laps. She believed me.

The third game went fine and was close most of the way. One team only had five players and one of the girls got hurt with about 5 minutes to play and their team up by two. Playing with only four players for about 3 minutes, they stretched their lead to nine. She came back in then, and they won by six.

At the end, I asked Juulie how long it would take her to get home - knowing she lives on the other side of town. She told me, and then I teased her by telling her that I would probably be out of the shower before she even got to her house. She really appreciated that.

BTW - she actually remembered to bring my Diet Snapple. What a partner!

I wish I could report that she decked a howler monkey or something, but it was a pretty uneventful shift. However, tomorrow, we're in adjacent gyms for two games and we're going to see if we can switch so we can work together again. Maybe something "Dave-like" will happen. If so, I'll keep you posted.