My worst day yet as a journalist

True. I just wanted to vent. ;D

 

OK. You could blame the SID.

I, personally, have never met an SID for a high school athletic program.

 

My god, she's back.

 

I am guessing this game was played in Texas. I have seen some of the high school fields there, and they are nicer than almost every college stadium in Virginia (sans Tech and UVA and possibly one or two others.)

 

I kept waiting for the part where a stadium working knocked the laptop off the counter top and sent it to the floor, where it met the Grim Reaper.

Hang in there, my friend. I've had many days like that one. When you go prematurely gray, you'll have interesting stories to tell the "You get into games for free?" people who wonder why your hair is going prematurely gray.

 

Lo siento.

My brain is still Cream of Wheat after the long meeting I sat through.

 

Seriously, though. Getting kicked out of press boxes and having the phones and power turned off were part of being a prep sports writer long before wireless was invented.

The odds of me getting to stay in a press box long enough to write and file my story were about 50-50 on any given night.

 

Early in my career I used to have to leave the press box at the prep game, drive over to the convenience store there and beg to use their phone to file.

 

This thread could go on forever with people telling their deadline filing stories. I could probably contribute five pages just with mine.

 

I would always just drive back to the shop if that was a problem.

I don't think I was ever more than a 30 minute drive, so I guess I was lucky.

But if all these things were expected to work, they should have worked.

 

This thread is awesome.