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I'm glad we don't work anything farther than 60 miles away.
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Had a lot of Vermont nights like that, but without the partner. Have a DH in town tomorrow night. I probably go 70-75 miles max one way now. Was about 40 miles away on Monday, but it seemed a lot farther.
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It probably seems too close now.
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We'll see. Back there in January twice. Maybe they've repaired the road.
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Been there. Done that. I hate it when that happens.
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Being in rural areas you probably have a better sense of travel time. Chicago, you just never know what to expect. Had a date a few weeks ago 8 miles from home, took me almost 45 minutes. |
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I'm working another chapter this year that is pretty far out, though I think my furthest drive this year is about 60 miles from work. I don't envy you folks with these really long drives.
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I grew up in a rural area. If something was 20 miles away, you knew you could drive there in about 20 minutes (unless the weather was bad). Now that I live in a big city, there's nothing that annoys me more then driving on a multi-lane freeway at speeds under 50 MPH.
If I'm going to spend 2 hours driving to a game, I'd much rather drive 110 miles then drive 20 miles in those 2 hours. But that's just me. Alternatively, as one of the veterans officials in our association is fond of saying "If I told you there was $75 under a rock 100 miles from here, would you go get it? Probably not. But if I told you that you could drive 100 miles and spend 2 hours officiating a basketball game in front of a hostile crowd for that same $75, you'd do it." |
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![]() The 115 miles included the drive to pick up the partner. I ran into some ungodly (in Madison terms) traffic and had to detour after calling my partner and telling him to move to another place to wait for me. Then the unexpected 25 miles of snow-covered county roads added another 15-20 minutes to the trip, since I averaged 30-35 MPH instead of 60+. In the end, we got there with 3:35 left in the 4th quarter, were dressed before regulation ended, and had to sit through an overtime period. Then there was the confrontation between the home (losing) JV coach and one of the officials on the way off the floor. That was a lot of fun. Actually, since that coach was a varsity assistant, it was a little fun watching him fume all through the warmups while sitting on the bench. |
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![]() Quite frankly, although I try to arrive at 6:30PM for a 7:30PM start, getting there last night at 6:50PM was a victory, not a defeat. And the AD, on seeing me, started laughing and asked me about our drive. The visiting assistant (who has always been friendly to me) saw me walk in with my bag and *he* started laughing, saying it figured that tonight I'd have to drive so far to work. It's funny, though, how you rush, rush, rush, and then you end up sitting through OT and also through the 20 minutes where you do nothing but stand there watching kids not dunk (amongst other things). My check ended up being for $120 (which I think is the biggest HS check I've seen for a regular season game) and my expenses (I figure) were about $35 for gas and $15 for food and a brew on the way home. So it wasn't terrible. |
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"You can observe a lot by watching"
Sounds like something Yogi would say. Do we call this a bob-ism?
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