OK - they're not really - but I had fun with one last night. I was doing some games with Juulie, and we had to move to a different gym for our 3rd game. There was a husband and wife team volunteering to do the clock and the book. The wife had done the book many times before, but her husband had never worked a game clock.
He asked me if it was hard. I told him that particular clock was very easy, and that he was lucky he didn't have to work the one in the other gym. He asked why and I told him the other clock was metric.
His wife asked what difference that would make and I told them that instead of adding one point at a time, it added 1.473 points each time and you had to convert manually. I also told them that the words on the controller box buttons were in some Eastern European language and didn't contain any vowels, so it was hard to know which buttons to push.
By this time the guy is cracking up, but his wife just looked at me and said, "Boy, that sounds really hard."
I told her that in the other gym you also had to keep a metric book, which meant you had to convert all the jersey numbers, keep the fouls in metric and put all the player's names in without any vowels.
The guy is holding his sides from laughing so much but she is just shocked. Finally, she says, "I'm glad we're not playing over there. I never really understood the metric system."
I was trying to keep a straight face when the guy says, "You get to leave after the game, but I have to go home with her."
That's when she hit him with the book.
Juulie arrived in the gym at that time and I told her the story. She looked at the couple and I knew she believed me.
Oh yeah - we had white vs. blue so naturally I told the guy that red was home.
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