Last year, I was working a rec middle school tournament with teams from all over the west coast, including British Columbia. We used volunteer parents as scorers. One woman came up to the table to work the clock and asked for instructions. I told her that since one of the teams was from Canada, we were using international rules. She asked what that meant. I told her she had to keep the score in metric. Again, she asked what that meant. I told her that every time a team scored a point, she had to credit them with 1.67 points, then asked her if she brought a calculator.
She gave me that "deer caught in headlights" stare and finally said, "I think I'll go get my husband."
My partner and I started laughing and told her we were only kidding. She said, "OH! Thank G-d."
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Yom HaShoah
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