all part of my job?

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by just another ref

Around here, it is a perk of being an official. If you have an official's card, you get in free, no matter who is playing. Jr. highs are not obligated to accept these cards, but every one I have ever attended does honor them.
The point here is that my card was refused, while another guy's identical card was accepted. I am told that this qualifies as discrimination, which goes past the point of showing ones a**, and reaches the point of being against the law.

Big jump there to call it discrimination. You did say yours was accepted then they came to find you to say it wasn't. Did the very same person let the other official in? Was it before or after you were informed that you had to pay? If after, Was it possible that someone else came along and re-corrected them? If before, did they try to find the other person but were unsuccessful? Was the other person a friend of the ticket taker? The questions could go on.

Perhaps it was discrimination but I'd be careful about throwing around those accusations simply because someone else got in free and you didn't. There could be 100's reasons that it occured (and, yes, one of them actually is discrimination).