As it was reported to me.....

[Mark Padgett]

Yesterday, there were rec games going on in the gym next to where I was working mine. Between games, the other refs came over to socialize. One of them told me that at the end of their first game (a 7th grade boys 30 point blowout) a parent said to him, "That was the worst refereed game I've ever seen!" The official replied, "So this was the first game you've ever seen then?"

The guy didn't get it but his kid laughed. Chalk one up for the good guys.

BTW - my reply would have been, "Coming from a real expert like you, that means a lot". I told this to the other ref and he said he'd write that one down.