Those Olympics were special

I only had one really funny thing happen, but it was great! I was paired up with another guy (David) to take the athletes to the field. They were in the final heat of the 50m dash. One of the women, who was in her mid-40s, had decided that David was her new boyfriend. She kept telling me this, and I asked her if he had agreed to that. She said no, but that he had to be because he'd said he didn't have a wife or a girlfriend. Anyhow, she was babbling about all of this to me as David was attending to the needs of another member of the group. She was very clearly obsessed with this notion, so I thought I'd try to get her off of the notion and said "even though he doesn't have a wife or a girlfriend, how do you know he doesn't have a boyfriend?" She seemed to not make sense of this for a minute, then it looked like the figurative lightbulb flicked on and she proceeded to ask David if he had a boyfriend. David didn't appear to care for this too much, and asked if I'd put her up to it. I really didn't feel like I had, as it seemed like another thing that she would logically need to consider before procaiming that David was hers. Oh well. David is still pretty young (20) and goes to a Christian university, so I can see where his defensiveness was coming from. He took it well enough when I said that the only reason I put the question in her head was that there's no way to know what someone's sexual orientation is except to ask them.

So anyhow, that was funny, but the best part is when they finally got up to the start line. David's "girlfriend" had a false start and kept running for a second or two until the shouts of "false start, come back! come back!" finally drilled in to her head. She was all pissed off and quickly bounced/tottered back to the line, all the while shooting daggers from her eyes at the start official and yelling "shit asshole! shit asshole!" I just about died of laughter on the spot. The official looked at the non-disabled folks hanging around the start line and said "I guess she told me!"

One of the other volunteers got a movie of this with her digital camera. I gave her my email, and I hope she sends it to me. No sound, but still amusing. I'll post it if she comes through.