First attempt at the second round
Jun. 5th, 2014 08:29 pmWhat was supposed to be a short bouldering session turned into a series attempt on the second round of league problems. I'd been going through crossing problems off my score card without, but it wasn't until I hit the first snag that I realised I should have been using ticks instead of crosses — and my subsequent attempts to fix it only made things worse.
On my way out, I decided to bite the bullet and get a new scorecard. The woman on the desk told me that it didn't matter: just so long as I knew which problems I'd done and they could make a guess at which were ticks and crosses, I'd been fine. And then she took a look at what I'd done. And laughed. And agreed that, yes, I really did need to recopy my scores. And once I'd done that and tried to hand it in, that I really needed to put my name on it too. She must've thought I was a complete idiot — or, more likely, I'd just confirmed her existing view...
On my way out, I decided to bite the bullet and get a new scorecard. The woman on the desk told me that it didn't matter: just so long as I knew which problems I'd done and they could make a guess at which were ticks and crosses, I'd been fine. And then she took a look at what I'd done. And laughed. And agreed that, yes, I really did need to recopy my scores. And once I'd done that and tried to hand it in, that I really needed to put my name on it too. She must've thought I was a complete idiot — or, more likely, I'd just confirmed her existing view...