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"You cannot be serious!"

Today, I was a volunteer linesman for the men's finals of the club champs at the tennis club I play for. I've never done anything like that before and it certainly was an interesting experience! For three hours I sat in a plastic chair watching the baseline at one end of the court.

Being a linesman is a job filled with mixed emotions. On the one hand, you hope that the ball never lands near your line so that you don't have to make a difficult call. On the other, when you have nothing to do, it gets really boring and your concentration wanes. When you do let your guard down a little, that is when the ball does come near you line and suddenly you realise that you've missed where the ball landed and you have to guess whether it was in our out!!! OOOPS!!!

Fortunately, the guys in the final like to play really safe and seldom hit near the lines. I only had a couple of close calls to make and they didn't do a John McEnroe on me. I also wore my dark sunglasses which helped me avoid making eye contact with them after making a close call!

Something random - I was just watching Laurie Fisher, coach of the ACT Brumbies being interviewed on TV. Suddenly I thought, "Santa must have really bad rosacea." Hmm.... go figure...

posted by SpongeMike @ 23:08