[BillyMac]

Girls varsity prep school game. Sloppy play from both teams, but there were a few descent players on both teams, and both teams were well coached.

Home is ahead by three points with about a minute to go. Due to some poor foul shooting by Home, Visitors have three chances to dig into that lead in the last minute. During all three Visitor possessions, they try to get the ball to V1, their best player, who, during all three possessions, tries to shoot from behind the three point line, and tries to throw herself into a defender to draw a foul on all three shots, figuring she could make the three, and get one free throw, or miss the three, and get three free throws. On all three tries, her shot is unsuccessful, and the defender just stands there in vertical stance with her hands straight up in the air, and I, or my partner, a veteran who's been officiating for forty-five years, come up with three consecutive no calls.

After her last unsuccessful shot, with her team behind by only three with about twelve seconds to go in the game, V1 turns to me and questions me emphatically, "Are you blind?".

Whack, and it's her fifth foul. Home makes one of the two technical foul free throws, and ices the clock for the final twelve seconds.

First "Tea Party" of the season for me. I never did answer her question, so in case she reads this Forum, "No. I'm not blind."