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M&M, Sounds like you and I have been in some very similar places. RR

I was at a Jr. High School the other night and thankfully I didnt live but a block away. When I got to the gym, I asked where could I get dressed. The home coach informed me that he had lost his keys and that all of the doors were lock and I would have to go in the corner and get dressed. Needless to say I told him I would be right back and went to my house and got dressed!

Another brandan sighting. How's it going, Dude? If I were doing a game a block away I'd have gone dressed and carrying my shoes! I always go to games in town already dressed in my uniform.

My first varsity game we changed in the band room. While we are doing our pregame, one of my partners starts playing the drums. Later that year I had my second varsity game at a different school...we changed in the band room.

So far this year...
Jr. High games at a brand new school. They had us change in the PE equipment room right off the gym floor. The room was full of balls, nets, poles, Frisbees, plastic bowling pins, etc (you get the picture). It was also someone's office (desk, phone and computer). Anyway, we finish our games and as my partner is standing with just his underwear on, a cheerleader opens the door and asks if she can have a basketball to shoot with. My partner says, "Excuse me?". She looks at him and repeats the question. He again says, "Excuse me?". Finally, she realizes he's in his underwear and walks out (but doesn't shut the door).

High school. Had to change in the weight room. Used the Smith machine as a closet rod to hang up my pants and jacket. While sitting on a bench (used for bench press), I turned and banged my shin on a bar that's used when you do leg exercises (I did that at least four times that night).

A little hot water goes a long ways in my book, that's all I really ask for. Well, that and a place to access my POD. :D

Refnrev, Thanks for asking. I have been doing great. I am out of school for Christmas, thank God! Even when I do have in town games, for some reason, I dont like to go dressed, I rather get dressed at game site.

:) Brandan

Junker,

George-Little Rock won the Iowa Boys' Class 1A state basketball championship last year. They defeated Bellevue-Marquette. Central Lyon/George-Little Rock won the Class 2A football championship this season, defeating Solon.

That's nothing!

A few years ago I moved 1 hour away and joined the local association. I was doing something like my 10th V game for this association at a gym in a small town outside of the main town. It was around Hallowe'en, so there were decorations everywhere. I walk into the gym very early and a student tells me where the changeroom is. So I'm in there by myself and I'm changing - almost in my birthday suit, when in comes a female student! She sees me, I have the deer look, and she acts as if nothing is going on. Turns out I was in the female changeroom. Decorations were covering the doors and I took the word of the first student which room was which.

There's one small private school here in Portland where you actually have to duck down to get through one very short door, to walk into a sort of crawl space under the stairs, and stay ducking down as you then walk into the ref's changing room. It's not at all easy for anyone with claustrophobia. Once you get in there, you see a couple of sort of okay rooms with a shower.... and a door into the main dressing room!! They leave that door locked so that the players don't wander in on the refs.

Here's a holiday joke on that subject. What did the other reindeer say to Rudolph after he landed on top of Santa?

You look like a deer caught in head lice. :p

You sure that you weren't in RockyRoad's office?

It's hit and miss here. I was at a school the other day that while I was in the brand-new shower (the shower head was literally at my chest) two girls walked in and went to the bathroom. Another school last night that was only about 7 yrs old and had a nice dressing room with lockers and a shower but was built for 2 officials. Now we have 3 varsity officials dressing in there and the 3 from the JV game came in while we were getting finished - they waited in the hall. We have another school that actually put some forethought into the officials locker room. It actually has nice furnature and looks like a country club locker room with several bathroom stalls and 2 showers, it has a clock inside that is sync'd to the floor clock and even has a sign on the door that says OFFICIALS and underneath has it written in braille!

Not only the size of the officials room, but, we have a local
one and the difficulity is getting to it....
Down stairs, thru the boys locker room, thru the shower, and
into the small officials room.
After the j.v. game is completed and the guys are in the shower,
the varsity officials have the players shut the showers down so
they can pass..
One of my fellow officials rates the schools by the shower room itself.

I worked a Christmas tournament last year -- 2 varsity games played back to back with 2 crews hired. We were given the room traditionally given to the JV officials -- a crawl space under a flight of stairs. Nice folks at the school, but the worst changing area I've had in 20 years. No shower nearby, either.

Must have been an official on the committee that designed it; nice.
And braille? Now that's funny, even if it was meant to appease the ADA requirements.