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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thinking back a few years when DC first went on swim team I can say that for sure there were some snippy snappy moms. I remember one in particular. She had a rigid system for the job she was doing and if people didn't follow her system, which wasn't really dependent on the adults helping her but the children, she was not very nice.

Never really got upset about that because I could tell it was a very difficult job.

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Was it clerk of course? If so I can understand that. It's a stressful job sometimes particularly at time trials and B meets when there's a lot of kids... especially during IM which is always deck seeded in our league. If the system breaks down it's chaos. The kids don't always show up when they're supposed to, they don't always stay where they're supposed to, and some just hover over you repeatedly asking what heat or lane they're in while you're trying to line up another group of kids. I've not been snippy with adults but if the same kid who is old enough to know better asks me 5 times what heat they're in when I am clearly dealing with a different event, it's hard to maintain a friendly tone when asking them to hold on a minute.[/quote]

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