Red Card

I've been watching entirely too much soccer lately. Why am I so obsessed?!? I don't have any clue. Did ya'll see the match yesterday between Portugal and the Netherlands? Crazy. I've never seen such wild card throwing (and I thought the US vs. Italy game was bad refereeing!). Basically, FIFA set some world records yesterday in "discipline":

~ Most Red Cards (Game) : 4 (2 each) Portugal v Netherlands, 25 June 2006
~ Most Yellow Cards Against One Team: 9 (Portugal), 2006
~ Most Yellow cards (match): 16 - Portugal v Netherlands, 25 June 2006

Anyway, speaking of cards, today I really felt like red-carding this crazy mother. I was already reaching for my whistle to let her have it, when I realized that instead of astroturf, I was standing on berber carpet. And instead of a referee uniform, I was wearing a pants suit. (Kinda makes things a little more difficult.)

Well regardless, it was a red card this mom (totally) deserved for playing unfairly and also bad-mouthing the ref. Summer reading is here and some of the nutty moms think they need to arm-wrestle their librarians to get a spot at our programs. When tickets run low, so does human kindness apparently. This mom was really ticked at me for not having enough tickets for her friend's kids (yes, you read right...) to be able to come to our kick-off party. Really. So she threw out the "I pay taxes" line and "you play favorites" line, as well as others... Whatever. These tickets have been available for 5 days now and she was just too lazy to come before the DAY BEFORE the event! Too bad I couldn't throw her out of the game. Grrr... (I am inwardly blowing my whistle.)