All I needed to know about relationships I learned at state.

Once again the family worked the State Wrestling Tournament for NSP with most of us boothing the pictures. Through the years of doing this we have all compared stories of our time working with the public so this is what I have learned about relationships and other things from the booth.



First if you have divorced your wife never buy the best photos of your child when she is also at the booth. I had a women this weekend just rip into her ex at the booth about buying the pictures that she wanted then continued chewing him out to me for 5 minutes after he had left. It might have been better to let her have a couple of the pictures.



Second if you hand your wife the credit card and tell her to just get the ones she wants, don't go crazy when she buys most of them ...if not all of them. Afterwards a simple smile and "those will look great honey" will be enough.



Third, don't be surprised when your child doesn't want to stand in a public place with their friends while you look at each picture and tell them what they were doing wrong, for some reason they don't seem to enjoy this much.



On the other side of the issue three is about the limit of photos you can show to another person to point out how great your child is. After 3 they just lose all interest.



Four. If the pictures are of a wrestling tournament, it is of little help to blame the person selling the pictures that the only pictures of your little angel are with him on his back when he was pinned in the first 15 seconds of the match. It should be obvious that he needs to do a little better to get a better picture.

Five. This is Spencers favorite- Don't ask to see the pictures of your little swimmer/wrestler(etc) before he/she actually performs. And Yes people do actually ask to see photos of their child before an event.



We have all enjoyed the time, well most of it anyway, that we have spent working for NSP but we really enjoy the story sharing time of our adventures in dealing with the public. It always makes our place seem a little more sane when we compare whats going on outside of here.