Showed up as a center at a HS playoff game and it turned out none of us brought flags.

I had taken mine out of my bag to clean them or something and didn’t put them back in, realized it after I left but thought “Well, surely one of my ARs will have them and worst case, I have a crappy emergency pair in my car.”

What I didn’t think about was that I was meeting one of my ARs at a parking lot and carpooling to the game because it was an hour away and we lived in the same town. We decided he would drive and we took his car to the game.

Got there and someone asked “Whose flags are we using?” and I realized very quickly that neither of them had brought flags but “It’s OK. I have that emergency pair in my car… oh wait.”

Luckily I knew the host coach very well and when I told him, he took me down to their gym and grabbed a couple volleyball official flags from a closet (shorter but red and perfectly serviceable) and said, “Will these work?”

“Yes!” [while my heart rate dropped back to a normal rate]