Funny mom story

I just had lunch with Barry and mom--by the way, Barry is lame as hell from his fall. He is barely hobbling.

Anyway, while there, mom told us a funny story of her new basketball team. She has coached forever, but since she retired from teaching, she has had to fill in with a new basketball team. She is coaching 1st to 3rd grade girls at the church. This cracks me up, as I quite vividly recall her coaching me at that age--and later.

Anyway, they have had two practices and the first game is coming up, so they scrimmaged against another team of the same age group last nite.

Mom explained to the girls how man to man defense works---that is all they are allowed to do at this stage. She told each girl who they were to guard, and said "she is your responsibility".

Off she sent the girls into battle. Many funny things occurred, but it got serious when she noticed a little girl on the other team was crying. The game was stopped to see what was so wrong. She was crying because the girl on mom's team "called her names". Oh my, says mom, I cannot imagine that and she asked her player if she had called the girl a name. Of course not, says mom's player.

Now get ready for this, this is really good.

Crying girl was asked what the name was.

Can anyone guess? It is BEEYOUTIFUL.

"Res-res-res-responsibility!"

Evidently, crying girl told mom's player to "quit it" with the guarding, and mom's girl replied that she could not quit it, as she was "her responsibility".

Now that is funny.

Mom says she tried to explain to her that her girl was crying girls responsibility to, but does nto think she was successful in calming her down.

Poor kid, sounds like she was really upset, but how do you not laugh at that?