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Rich Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:20pm

(A) 208 miles, (B) $88, (C) 3 lbs.
 
Drove (A) roundtrip last night to work a varsity boys game.

Made (B) including mileage (they cap at 100 miles for conference games).

Lost (C) working the game. 2-person and they ran the you-know-what out of us. We were in a wrestling locker room so I weighed myself on their fancy digital scale before and after the game. I put it back on afterwards, I'm sure. :)

Best moment (besides getting home at 11:50PM :rolleyes: ) was when the 6'6" post lost control of the ball going up and then he flung himself in the air like he was shot, which didn't fool either of us (as well as the PA announcer who worked the JV game). Fooled his coach, though, who couldn't and wouldn't believe me when I told him what happened.

Scrapper1 Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:48pm

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Originally Posted by RichMSN
Lost (C) working the game. 2-person and they ran the you-know-what out of us.

The fat? :)

Rich Fri Feb 08, 2008 01:21pm

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Originally Posted by Scrapper1
The fat? :)

Probably just the water, unfortunately.

just another ref Fri Feb 08, 2008 02:30pm

D. Satisfaction of a job well done.....priceless.

rockyroad Fri Feb 08, 2008 03:30pm

108 miles one-way for a HS game? Wow...was this a play-off game or something? Or just a really rural area?

Rich Fri Feb 08, 2008 03:39pm

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Originally Posted by rockyroad
108 miles one-way for a HS game? Wow...was this a play-off game or something? Or just a really rural area?

Nope, just a conference game between two .500-ish teams.

Outside Madison, it gets pretty rural fast, but 104 miles one way is a bit far, even for me.

That said, I worked a regional (1st or 2nd round) playoff game there 2 years ago (and they remembered me from that :eek: ) and worked the baseball regional final there last year so I had been there a few times before.

Adam Fri Feb 08, 2008 03:44pm

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Originally Posted by rockyroad
108 miles one-way for a HS game? Wow...was this a play-off game or something? Or just a really rural area?

Not a numbers guy?

rockyroad Fri Feb 08, 2008 04:07pm

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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
Not a numbers guy?

It was downhill all the way home, so that makes it shorter. Duh!!

Dan_ref Fri Feb 08, 2008 04:12pm

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Originally Posted by rockyroad
It was downhill all the way home, so that makes it shorter. Duh!!

Or maybe his family moved during the game?

M&M Guy Fri Feb 08, 2008 05:36pm

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Originally Posted by Dan_ref
Or maybe his family moved during the game?

My family did that to me once.

It took me a week before I found them again.

Dan_ref Fri Feb 08, 2008 05:50pm

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Originally Posted by M&M Guy
My family did that to me once.

It took me a week before I found them again.

They ran out of gas?

WhistlesAndStripes Fri Feb 08, 2008 06:46pm

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Originally Posted by rockyroad
108 miles one-way for a HS game? Wow...was this a play-off game or something? Or just a really rural area?

How bout this. GOt an email from the president of our association Tuesday morning looking for someone willing to drive 150 miles on Wednesday, then catch a flight and fly another 800 miles to the game site. Worke 10 games over 3 days, and then fly home. $75 per game, working 3-man, and then head home Sunday. ALl expenses paid. I jumped right on it. Look for Barrow, Alaska, and you'll see where it is -- the northernmost location in the United States.

Mark Padgett Fri Feb 08, 2008 07:10pm

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Originally Posted by Whistles & Stripes
Look for Barrow, Alaska, and you'll see where it is -- the northernmost location in the United States.

I once won a trivia contest by knowing that Alaska is the northernmost, the westernmost and the easternmost (it's islands cross over into the the Eastern hemisphere) of the 50 states. BTW - Hawaii is the southernmost.

Rich Sat Feb 09, 2008 01:10am

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Originally Posted by Whistles & Stripes
How bout this. GOt an email from the president of our association Tuesday morning looking for someone willing to drive 150 miles on Wednesday, then catch a flight and fly another 800 miles to the game site. Worke 10 games over 3 days, and then fly home. $75 per game, working 3-man, and then head home Sunday. ALl expenses paid. I jumped right on it. Look for Barrow, Alaska, and you'll see where it is -- the northernmost location in the United States.

I'd jump on that, too. Good deal. Congrats.

MadCityRef Sat Feb 09, 2008 01:40am

Don't forget your .485 cents per mile deduction!!

104 miles in WI takes 104 minutes. In Chicagoland, 104 minutes means 30 miles.


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