Horn of Plenty
A funny thing happened at the football game tonight. When the horn sounded to end the third quarter of the game, it stuck and the sound went on endlessly! Whoever runs the scoreboard was trying to get it to turn off. We could see lights flashing across the scoreboard but the horn kept sounding. Finally they pulled the plug on the scoreboard and the horn stopped. When they turned it on again, the horn sounded and they had to turn it off right away. They played the final quarter without the use of the score board.
The game got very exciting during the last five minutes. How much we missed the scoreboard at that time! None of us knew how much time had elapsed and if we'd have enough time left to enable our team to make a comeback. We didn't have enough time but we had to depend on the game announcer to keep us filled in on the number of minutes remaining.
When they got the horn turned off, we all applauded! That was a very interesting part of the game.
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Strange, but I had a similiar experience at the high school football game I attended Friday night. During the fourth quarter, while the score board was inoperative, the announcer said, "The pass was incomplete, stopping the clock." To which, a woman in the stands yelled in reply, "What clock?" That got a laugh from everyone who sat near enough to hear her.
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