What's in your pocket?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

I've never had a uniform/equipment problem in all my years of officiating.

Haven't you ever heard of a jinx? This would be a jinx by tempting fate. After such a statement, failure would be ironic. For the human mind, the irony makes it all the more likely. This therefore brings bad luck: it is a "jinx". The event itself is referred to as "jinxed".

[Kelvin green]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

PS I've never had a uniform/equipment problem in all my years of officiating.

Never say never... I always have two pair of pants.... In three different games over the course of the last !@ years (yes hiding the number) that I have had pants split, tear, or rip...

If you never have you are lucky.... BTW never had a problem with a whistle though...

[HawkeyeCubP]

Originally Posted by Amesman

First of all, yes, we all can see where this one could go in the wrong hands (not pointing any fingers ... ). Hoping for helpful answers, I'll pose it anyway for the curious among us (veteran and non- alike).

Other than the spare Fox 40, what do you take on the court with you?
Anything in particular for courtside?

(By the same token, anything absolutely a bad idea to bring that might not be so apparent at first, or that you've heard someone did have?)

This is gonna help a lot of newer folks.

Nothing. Ever.

[Juulie Downs]

Jacket pockets -- reading glasses (for the book), chapstick (for chapped lips!).

Pants pocket -- tissue or two, spare hair band.

[Adam]

I don't carry anything in my pocket but T, but I keep it in my back pocket just in case I need to serve it.

Seriously, I used to carry a half-dollar coin when the Iowa girls experimented with Billy Mac's rule change. Since then, nothing.

[muxbule]

contact solution, extra piece of gum and spare lanyard

[beachbum]

I carry a tylenol or two and usually take one if i do two games in a row

I'm afraid to leave my wallet anywhere, so i leave it in my back pocket. But you would never know it as there is no money in it, that's why I ref.

an extra whistle

and my watch, so it there is a problem with the timing for time outs I could whip it out.

flame on

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I used to carry a half-dollar coin when the Iowa girls experimented with Billy Mac's rule change.

How did you like the coin flip instead of the jump ball? How did the coaches/players/administrators like it?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

How did you like the coin flip instead of the jump ball? How did the coaches/players/administrators like it?

Honestly? It was easier, but it just didn't feel right. It really felt like we were patronizing the girls; as if we had to protect them. May as well do 6 player ball, IMO.

[HawkeyeCubP]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

How did you like the coin flip instead of the jump ball? How did the coaches/players/administrators like it?

Complete ditto to what Snaq said. I knew mutliple players that played just before the rule change, and when I told them of it, they would, without exception, scowl at me about it.

[kmw]

Originally Posted by Juulie Downs

Jacket pockets -- reading glasses (for the book), chapstick (for chapped lips!).

Pants pocket -- tissue or two, spare hair band.

Juulie - I might have to start carrying the extra hair band! never thought of that, especially since this is the first year that my hair is long enough for one~! I started last year carrying a spare whistle in pants pocked because I had a brand new whistle that sounded like a cow dying... so embarrasing. Lesson learned.

[Bad Zebra]

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