Or in the presence of others who begin to emulate you...or in the presence of the others who begin to emulate them..and on and on.

Only takes one person to start a change.

I do not disagree with you that you can influence others, but that is just the nature of what we do and the competition of it. There are newer officials that come in and think they should be working the top games yesterday and will tell you about it. I almost always try to steer people away from those kinds of conversations but they still have them anyway. There are always going to be negative people that see something and try to nitpick it. We have people here that go crazy if an official does one little thing that is not "perfect" in the mechanics books or standard. Heck even here we cannot agree on how rules should be applied, so why would I expect people to think someone working a game is not going to come with negative comments from time to time. I am not saying I condone it; just do not believe we can ultimately do anything about it. You can change your little neck of the woods in a little way, but there will always be a contingent that are bitter and have negative things to say about others. Usually that is because most people do not like to look in the mirror and figure out why they have not achieved certain levels, but blame others or a system for their failures.

Peace

There's more to come, jake. You're now officially a running joke on this forum.

You've gone where few have gone before. You have attained Old School status here. :)

Not as big a joke as a bunch of idiots that fall for every post an idiot makes Ha Ha Ha................................................ ...................Got ya big dogs!

So when do you arrive in Indianapolis?

Tonight at 6PM

How So?
 

Ya talked trash and got caught. I don't see a "gotcha" moment there.

Cardinal
 

Bad News are you talking about guys that are in Cardinal or IAABO #12 ?????

I did not figure yall would get it, Curtis think it is very funny. Seyou in Johns room for the card game.

Why is he in Indianapolis and not Houston?:confused:

You really involved Curtis Shaw in this? Really???

Peace

Who do you think keeps erasing his posts?

Shaw has that power? Wow.

Please post in English.

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