It's a rainy day in Claremont. That's good. We need the rain, and it's been a dry winter so far. Wednesdays are my very busy teaching days, and I usually have the car all day long. We are fortunate to be a one-car family (couple), with one of us able to walk/bike to work. (Yes, I bike sometimes, too when I don't have to be someplace immediately after class.) Now that it is softball season, though, one of us needs the car on occasion during the day to go umpire a college game somewhere in the great IE basin. Today was one such day.
I made a reservation for a Zipcar to tide me over for 2 hours. With impending rain, however, we thought the game might be cancelled, but we didn't want to give up the Zipcar reservation just in case it wasn't. I had the option of canceling the reservation without fees if I did so before 9:00 a.m.
The 3:00 game was cancelled at about 12:30 or so, and I already had the Zipcar at that point, so we did a little shuffling of getting a car here and a car there. Of course, in retrospect, I didn't need the reservation.
My ramblings do have a central thought. The powers that be at the University of LaVerne did not fully know that their decision to cancel a game had wider-reaching effects than imagined. They know that they have to alert the visiting team and the umpires (and probably others), but they do not know that their decisions reach to the umpire spouses, as well. If they had cancelled the game early this morning, it would have saved us a little bit of money and some time-juggling.
I know this is not a big issue, but it does have implications that our actions reach farther than we sometimes realize.
That is all. Carry on.
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