Nanette Streubel (left) and Melanie Kooch, cheeseburger “dealers.” (Shelli Trumbull photo)
Fawn Gustafson … I did not steal your pen … really!
Is there any worse moment for a sports reporter than to have his pen go dry in the middle of a basketball game?
Especially when this unnamed reporter — we’ll call him “Skippy” — was stupid enough not to bring a back-up pen, as good sports reporters are apt to do.
When that happens, it’s Def-Con 4, baby! Screw the women and children, papa needs a new writing utensil.
Thankfully, the good women in the concession stand took pity on me Friday night and provided me with a replacement pen during the break between the JV and varsity game. And also gave me a free cheeseburger as well, so, hey, silver linings and all.
Special mention must be made of my cheeseburger “dealer,” Nanette Streubel, mom of football beast Nick Streubel, and Fawn Gustafson, mother of Wolf basketball star Amanda Fabrizi, who, after seeing the first pen being offered to me (a pink one covered with pictures of princesses), dug deeper and found me a good ol’ fashioned blue and white Bic.
Thereby saving me much grief from my companions in the stands.
And how did I repay her? By stealing her pen.
Sort of.
By the time I got done talking to the coaches after the game and we left, one barely-blinking light ahead of a dark gym, the concession stand mothers were long gone. And I was left holding my ill-gotten pen.
Which I will return at the next home game on Tuesday. I promise.
For if I have learned anything in the last four months of covering Coupeville High School sports, it is this — be nice to the moms and they will be nice to you.
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