<Facedesk> Oh the scoring table

[jTheUmp]

Originally Posted by keith_15

...and here I thought I was the only one that still did that.

I carry a spare whistle in my pocket for every game. I will use it to keep track of the possession arrow in some situations, namely when I'm working 7th/8th/9th grade games with a 'substandard' table crew.

Plus it did come in handy once when my smitty loop broke off my shirt and my whistle and smitty lanyard ended up going under the bleachers.

[keith_15]

Originally Posted by jTheUmp

I carry a spare whistle in my pocket for every game. I will use it to keep track of the possession arrow in some situations, namely when I'm working 7th/8th/9th grade games with a 'substandard' table crew.

Plus it did come in handy once when my smitty loop broke off my shirt and my whistle and smitty lanyard ended up going under the bleachers.

That's funny! I have carried the same whistle in my pocket for over 20 years. YES it still works and is an actual spare whistle, but I haven't had to utilize it in about 10 years. Because I bite the whistle in my mouth, one night I cracked it during a game, but hadn't realized it. First time I hit the whistle it let out a sound that sounded more like popped bag pipes than a game whistle. I took that old (and still square) Fox40 out of my pocket and used it till the end of the half. It sounded better than the damn new whistle anyway. My partner even asked me if I was using something different because it was so loud. When I told him what I had done, he couldn't stop laughing.