Wed Oct 30, 2002, 07:59am
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In Memoriam
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Houghton, U.P., Michigan
Posts: 9,953
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Don't mail the letter.
ewiar,
Welcome to your first official's training. I can tell it's your first experience since you seem so surprised. 
Fact: Most of us pay $200-$300.00 to go an Officials' Camp to obtain a new orifice in our body, and you got one for "Free"!
Fact: Being trained is a very humbling experience for most of us, and you have joined the club.
Fact: Had you asked this forum for advice before your first training you would have been told to work hard, listen hard and say nothing, ... unless you were specifically asked, "What were you thinking ?!!?"
Continue training, and know that your next trainer could be worse. I will not defend the trainer's actions except to say trainer's techniques will vary.
The next time you see the "Trainer", thank him and tell him you learned a lot. You may even tell him that you learned to "shut up". Humility will take you a long way in this avocation.
Put aside your hurt pride and think about what you have learned; are you better or worse? I am willing to bet you are not "chicken peeping" anymore.
mick
(initially trained and humbled at 48)
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