But I helped him drink his wine....

So today was my first day of work as a referee for intramural basketball out on Cook/Douglass. There's really no simple way to say this, but every single one of those guys have such a little man complex, its redic. Since I was new to reffing they stuck me on clock so I could watch how the refs made different calls and got a feel for intramural rules versus NBA and regulation rules. The first game was a train wreck. I forgot to mark 3 baskets for each team, so they had the proper amount of points between each other, just minus 6 points a piece. Then later on in that game, I lost power on the clock. We were scrambling to figure out what the score was and how much time was left, and the whole time I was kicking my self because I thought I was responsible for screwing up the clock. Finally this really really hot ref told me to relax because one of the players was throwing a fit in the corner and kicked the wire out and it wasn't my fault. After that embarrassing moment things went more smoothly until one of the other Student Directors walked over to talk to me. He chooses right in the middle of the game to introduce himself and to start flirting. WTF MAN?! First off your ugly to no end, secondly you know I'm trying to do my job, stop flirting!!!!! He finally gets the hint that its pointless, and moves on to another girl who was setting up for Handball later at night. She's dragging tables and chairs around and he's all Hey babe, what's up? Ugh you are so dense! But there were some funny moments. This one team refused to let me know when they wanted subs and were just exchanging players when ever, and I kept telling them check in with me first. After the 4th or 5th time I finally stood up and told them to check in with me first. Their faces were priceless. I try hard not to use my size as an intimidation factor if I can avoid it, but they were no taller than 5'5" and freaked out when they realized they didn't want to mess with me. (I'm slowly realizing this is one giant paragraph, so sorry) That was my first day at work, what a crazy experience.