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Originally Posted by Josh1993
Season is almost over, but of course something new just had to come up so I'm asking you for advice once again:
Warming up for the boy's JV game and the scorer's table is trying to get the game ball to me. They hand the ball to a player who calls "Josh!" and when I turn around he passes me the ball.
I shot him a look and replied, "Thank you, number 15!"
He knew what I meant right away. "Oops. Sorry, Ref."
Has this ever happened to you, and what have you done about it?
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There is not a single player I officiate who knows my first name. I'm not from here (brought here by the military), neither of my kids play(ed) HS basketball, and any kid in the neighborhood knows me as Mr. LastName.