Well basketball season has started and a strange thing happened. We won!
(To catch anyone up, our school just recently broke the 2nd longest losing streak in football in NY state history.)
I arrived at the 3rd quarter and we were 17 points behind. “Oh, well. I know the drill,” I said to myself. This is where you drive home highlighting all the good things about being on a team, working toward a goal, being a good sport, persistence, etc. Good stuff. Then, all those things I had been preaching about for years actually happened!
Little by little our team caught up, went into overtime and finally won. The other team had 2 technical fouls as one charming young man decided to accuse the audience of “blowing the ref” and shouted, “What the f***!” when he was called for a foul. Talk about foul. I looked around to see if I could identify any of his parents. I guessed they were either the woman in the corner beet red and pretending to look for something in her purse (pepper spray?) or the couple screaming at the ref too. (My money’s on the screamers.)
This is the same team that beat us in football by 55-0. As I was leaving, my friend’s little boy asked us both, “What does blowing the ref mean?” I left quickly. She began her own bit of fancy footwork.
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” Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.” ~ Marquis de Sade (of all people!)
10 responses so far ↓
1 Renae // Dec 6, 2007 at 10:11 am
Congratulations on the win! As for the little boy’s question, that’s when I would say, “Gee, I don’t know exactly what he meant.” And it would be true.
Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a long winning streak! Keep us posted!
2 Karen Vogel // Dec 6, 2007 at 11:03 am
Wow. The drama of it all. Congrats on the win! And I think you’re right – the parents were the screamers.
3 angelawd // Dec 6, 2007 at 2:50 pm
man, some parents are crazy. Makes me feel better about my own parenting!
4 angelawd // Dec 6, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Ooops, sorry for the double comment!
5 Tracy // Dec 6, 2007 at 9:02 pm
LOL. I remember as a teenager sitting in the front seat of the care while my move drove. My little brother in the back seat blurted out “What does ‘masturbate’ mean?”
Mom nearly wrecked. I laughed out loud. My brother discovered it for himself I guess.
*ROTFLMBO and wiping eyes* *sigh* Good times…
6 Scotty // Dec 6, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Great ! Congrats on the win !
All the things that mom says in a typical day, compressed to a 2 minutes 55 seconds song, sung to William Tell Overture ! Hilarious stuff do check it,
http://usanewstoday.blogspot.com/2007/10/viral-video-of-week-mom-song.html
7 Joe // Dec 7, 2007 at 12:22 am
Kids watching the kids play in the NBA is how that happened…no role models of proper behavior to turn to anymore. Oh Fudge!
8 New Diva on the Blog // Dec 7, 2007 at 12:49 am
Congrats on the win! Even more sweet since your opponent was so devastatingly charming. NICE.
My son is in 4th grade and I already get worked up over his games (in an enthusiastic you can do it sort of way, not yell at the coach or ref. yucky stuff) Anyway, don’t know what I will do when he is in high school, I may need valium.
9 Rebecca // Dec 8, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Congrats on the win! And LMAO at the other!
10 therapydoc // Dec 9, 2007 at 1:40 am
Winning sure beats losing. Like any day.