Thread: 1 or 2 T's?
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Old Fri Jan 09, 2009, 02:11pm
Fritz Fritz is offline
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agree with mbyron; one T in V, fix it below that.

As far as the clock and horn, one of my pet peeves is the clock person who sounds the horn AFTER I've blown my whistle and beckoned subs onto the court. I usually go over and ask the person why they sounded the horn then and it seems like EVERY time I get "I thought I am supposed to sound the horn to let everyone know that a sub is coming into the game."

Then the conversation usually goes something like this:

Me: "Letting who know?"
Clock: "you"
Me: "but I already blew my whistle and brought them on the court"
Clock: "oh yeah, well the coach then"
Me: "you mean the person that sent the sub to the table in the first place?"
Clock: "oh, well the other coach then"
Me: "Because they need to know....why,.... if they didn't already pick up on the fact that a player was coming onto the court when I blew my whistle and yelled 'Sub'?"
Clock: now getting sheepish, "well, maybe the parents need to know"
Me: "Good point, I am sure Johnny's parents have no clue that their son is coming into the game, though I am not sure how you sounding the horn once will let then know that it is Johnny and not Sammy coming into the game. Do you sound it twice for Sammy and maybe three times for Carl?"

Oh, and I do try to keep a HUGE grin on my face the whole time so that they know I'm not really trying to be an a**hole about it.

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