Very Earnest Dad

[rainmaker]

I was working some games in Padgett's league Saturday morning, and we had one game with this really nice dad to do the book. He'd never done it before, and wanted to do a good job. Padgett instructed him carefully, and then turned to the clock person to instruct him (this is common since most of these parents haven't done these things before). Padgett told the clock guy, "Set it for seven minutes" and then told him how to do it. The book dad said to me, "Quarters or halves?" I said (joshingly, I thought), "Halves." He looked at me kind of puzzled, and I said, "Just kidding."

So at half-time, we are walking over to the book, and he's getting up which is no big deal really, Padgett looks at the book, and says to him, "You needed to keep the team fouls all in their own half of the game," and he pointed to that part of the book. The book dad said, "I did. See this is the second half here". He was so sincere, I had to muster all my self-control not to laugh out loud in his face.