Great comment from rookie ref

[Mark Padgett]

I worked three rec games last night and I had to switch gyms after the first one. The game on that one wasn't quite over when I got there and I watched a first year guy finish the game by himself (his partner never showed). It ended in a three point game. As soon as the game was over, the losing coach came up to him and said, "the fouls in the second half were eleven to two. You know what that means?" The kid, with a straight face, replied, "it means you can count to thirteen."

I cracked up. BTW - in the five minutes or so that I saw, he did an excellent job. He was working a different rec league but I'm going to sign him up for mine.