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"i screwed up." "you THINK?!"
I made a mistake today -- in the best good faith, but still -- that could have had kind of disastrous consequences. Fortunately, things worked out so the only thing damaged for sure is my pride, and the only thing damaged for possibly is my standing with the USCA (I may not be invited to the next level of certification as soon as I might have absent this error). Since the fault was 100% entirely mine, that's as it should be.
Made the mistake at the beginning of the third end of a ten-end game, though. Spent the next couple of hours feeling progressively more terrified. The team in whose "favor" I had made the mistake (it wasn't really an advantage for them, in fact, but they were nevertheless the ones I'd allowed to do something I shouldn't have allowed -- in case any of you are interested, I misinterpreted the rule permitting lineup changes when mid-game substitutions occur, and allowed them to change their lineup without putting in a substitute, which is illegal; they only got one point in that end, and I corrected the mistake in time for the fourth end and gave the opponents the option of resetting the clocks and playing the third over, which they declined) stole end after end and finally, thank god, the other (non-offending) team got another big one in the 9th to put it away, so the offending team was defeated and everyone is okay.
Except me, right, because you all know how it is when you do something that has the potential to be truly awful and then it turns out all right, you keep feeling sick for days.
Made the mistake at the beginning of the third end of a ten-end game, though. Spent the next couple of hours feeling progressively more terrified. The team in whose "favor" I had made the mistake (it wasn't really an advantage for them, in fact, but they were nevertheless the ones I'd allowed to do something I shouldn't have allowed -- in case any of you are interested, I misinterpreted the rule permitting lineup changes when mid-game substitutions occur, and allowed them to change their lineup without putting in a substitute, which is illegal; they only got one point in that end, and I corrected the mistake in time for the fourth end and gave the opponents the option of resetting the clocks and playing the third over, which they declined) stole end after end and finally, thank god, the other (non-offending) team got another big one in the 9th to put it away, so the offending team was defeated and everyone is okay.
Except me, right, because you all know how it is when you do something that has the potential to be truly awful and then it turns out all right, you keep feeling sick for days.
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