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Gear Grinding 9: I Need a Wine!

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There needs to be a ban on blue/white headlights. Or at the very least an aggressive campaign on against them installed where the point of focus is straight into the other driver’s eyes.

Nothing worse than being temporarily blinded by the other car’s regular lights because they opted for the 6k lumens that are somehow pointing up.
 
Need to hold my mail for a little bit coming up, so I go to the USPS website.

Log in > forgot username > email sent > enter username > forgot password > "please answer security questions" > "security questions incorrect" > "customer care is unable to answer questions regarding username, password, or security questions. If you cannot remember your security questions, make a new account" > create account > fill out info for new account > "it looks like you already have an account with us, please log in"

Guess I'll use an alt email then...
 
The programmers that fixed computers for Y2K went too far. Or maybe my company just needs to change their part numbering scheme.
Excel changes my part number 11-9082 to Nov-82 (or 11/1/9082). Does anyone really think humans will be around in 9082, or that I am concerned with something 7,050 years from now, or that if the first 1 is true, anyone will still be using Excel in seven thousand years?
 
Welp, I had “that parent” moment as I got kicked out of my daughter’s volleyball game.

Trouble began when another girl on my daughter’s team dove for the ball and tried to kick it instead of diving with her arms (TBF, it is legal to use your foot). Then next point the same girl did it again. The girls mom actually said to her “ok, knock it off” and even motioned to the coach to take her out. Right before the next serve the opposing coach looked right at our girl and loudly said “it was funny once” a couple of times. After the second time he said it I finally stood up (mostly because at that point most of our teams parents were PO’d and I stood up knowing as the white guy I can take the heat easier than others) and I loudly told the coach “don’t talk to our players, you coach your team!” The coach then yelled at me “you talking to me?” I said “yeah I am, don’t talk to our players, you coach your team!” At that point the referee blew her whistle and I sat back down. The coach said something to me again and I stood back up and told him “don’t talk to our players, you coach your team” again. At that point the referee blew her whistle again and “ok, both of you out!” I stood for a second, looked at referee and nodded and walked out to the parking lot. I guess the coach spent 10-15 minutes arguing with the referee and league administrator before he came out to the parking lot and tried to confront me again. Thankfully another Dad from my daughters team was with me and got in front of the coach while I walked away. The coach then proceeded to threaten the other Dad, including threatening some physical violence.

Eventually another administrator showed up and got the coach off property. I was walking the track at the school with my wife when the administrator finally came over and politely said I needed to go too (which I agreed with) though at this point the game was over. Thankfully my Mom was with us so she eventually drove my wife and daughter home so I could leave right away.

I don’t feel like I did the wrong thing, though I absolutely deserved to be ejected, but I’m definitely not proud of what happened.
 
I don't think you were That Parent based on what you wrote. I don't think I'd spend too much time dwelling on it. That was a tepid 1.5 out of 10 on the scale.
 
I had one of those during a school play. I was wrong to get involved even though the theater teacher was an idiot.

The rule is once you get involved you make it 100x worse for everyone, especially your kid. TBH that's the real punishment -- your embarrassment.

Yeah, it was a bad decision, but you'll remember it long, long after everyone else has forgotten it, so give yourself a break.
 
While the opposing coach started things and was definitely the sparkplug, yeah, I imagine they want their to be a "wall" between parents (and others in the stands) and players/coaches on the teams, since once interactions there start they have a way of getting much worse. So I don't think you did a bad thing, per se, but definitely something they were going to stand for. But it is good you accepted what they decided and didn't decide to raise things further, since doing otherwise is how you end up on the internet.
 
I give this a 1/3 Cheeseburger rating...

As an official, fighting parents are just annoying AF. So that is likely why you were asked to leave.

That being said, I think it was ok for you to defend your kid's team and that the opposing coach was wrong to make comments like that to a player. I'm assuming by the child's parent's comment, this is likely a rec league and not super competitive. So yea, let the kids have some leeway with behavior (within reason of course).
 
Kepler said:
I had one of those during a school play. I was wrong to get involved even though the theater teacher was an idiot.

The rule is once you get involved you make it 100x worse for everyone, especially your kid. TBH that's the real punishment -- your embarrassment.

Yeah, it was a bad decision, but you'll remember it long, long after everyone else has forgotten it, so give yourself a break.
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How did this happen at a play? Elementary or middle school? Because high school is essentially community theater where the show should be rehearsed enough to go on without any interruptions.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
How did this happen at a play? Elementary or middle school? Because high school is essentially community theater where the show should be rehearsed enough to go on without any interruptions.
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High school play. One of the actors forgot his lines. The theater teacher let him dangle, no prompt, just let him die there on stage, and the other actors weren't experienced enough to paper around it and save him. The teacher stopped the play, walked on stage, spoke to the crowd and apologized "for" the student. I told him it wasn't the kid's fault, and given how the teacher was handling it I had a pretty good idea whose fault it was. The teacher got super heated, super quick, and when I saw that and I de-escalated, but I felt like crap and then I learned later my daughter had heard my statement from off stage and she was desperately embarrassed, so then I felt about an inch tall. Remembering it right now I feel like an absolute heel. I didn't make anything better, I was just angry at that idiot and was stupid. I was being selfish and not thinking about the greater good.
 
RaceBoarder said:
I give this a 1/3 Cheeseburger rating...

As an official, fighting parents are just annoying AF. So that is likely why you were asked to leave.

That being said, I think it was ok for you to defend your kid's team and that the opposing coach was wrong to make comments like that to a player. I'm assuming by the child's parent's comment, this is likely a rec league and not super competitive. So yea, let the kids have some leeway with behavior (within reason of course).
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As a ref myself I knew why I was getting kicked out and I was fine with it. I actually felt bad for her, she’s a good ref and is pretty good with the kids.

We had issues with this coach in previous games, which part of the reason I stood in the first place. I wish our coach had stood up instead but I think he has issues confronting things like that.

My daughter didn’t seem very embarrassed, she was more excited about how good her tips and blocks were. My mom was actually very proud of me.
 
Kepler said:
High school play. One of the actors forgot his lines. The theater teacher let him dangle, no prompt, just let him die there on stage, and the other actors weren't experienced enough to paper around it and save him. The teacher stopped the play, walked on stage, spoke to the crowd and apologized "for" the student. I told him it wasn't the kid's fault, and given how the teacher was handling it I had a pretty good idea whose fault it was. The teacher got super heated, super quick, and when I saw that and I de-escalated, but I felt like crap and then I learned later my daughter had heard my statement from off stage and she was desperately embarrassed, so then I felt about an inch tall. Remembering it right now I feel like an absolute heel. I didn't make anything better, I was just angry at that idiot and was stupid. I was being selfish and not thinking about the greater good.
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Lol, I think this is the most Kepler story I’ve heard. The only thing missing is you muttering under your breath “I can’t believe I missed The Bachelor for this!”
 
Jimjamesak said:
Lol, I think this is the most Kepler story I’ve heard. The only thing missing is you muttering under your breath “I can’t believe I missed The Bachelor for this!”
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I should have asked to see his diploma. That would have been on brand.
 
Jimjamesak said:
We had issues with this coach in previous games, which part of the reason I stood in the first place. I wish our coach had stood up instead but I think he has issues confronting things like that.
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Yeah, with admittedly complete 20/20 hindsight the best avenue would have been to privately tell your team's coach to tell the other coach to knock it off, though it sounds like maybe even with prompting your team's coach may not have.
 
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