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Old Tue Dec 19, 2000, 02:07pm
mick mick is offline
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Originally posted by Indy_Ref
can you explain your answer a little more? I must be mis-interpreting something.
Indy_Ref,
If it's the part about an Ego, perhaps I overstated, but it's like this. If someone wants to be R ... fine. He who humbles himself..., he who exalts himself....
Generally, I do not have the slightest interest in the "difference" between R and U. I can do both jobs well.
In all, but a few cases, it seems to me that when I hit the floor, I am working with partners, or a partner, as a team, and any decisions that need to be made will be made in a quick intellectual discussion between the officials and settled, if necessary, by R making the final statement/decision and I am sure that decision will be a consensus of the officials.
Quite a few partners put much more significance on the "presumed status" of being the R.
I do not have a problem making decisions, nor do I merely coast on the back of the tandem bicycle while my partner up front is doing all the pedalling.
Maybe, I am missing something and will chose to be the referee sometime in the future, but right now it makes absolutely no difference to me.
mick
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