Originally Posted by YolandaW
Let me share with you an experience I had years ago, not with quilts but with dogs. I showed dogs for 20 years and always entered AKC shows. At this one show I was so embarrassed because this judge pulled me out of line and put me out front and proceeded to tell the other exhibitors to look at how great my dog was. That THAT was what this breed should look like, blah blah blah...welllllll...she had me go back and join the line and proceeded to give the wins to the OTHER dogs in the ring...WHAT? WHAT? NOW that was humiliation. lol..Actually after we exited the others came up to me and were saying how crazy that was. lol...needless to say I never ever entered under that judge again...go figure
ROFLMAO!
At one show, my breed was first in the ring that day. My male lost to another dog that he'd beaten several times already. Fair enough, everyone has good days and bad days, no one in dogs ever agrees on everything, etc. I've never complained about a loss and I wasn't about to start then.
But as I hung out ringside, I noticed that the judge had each class go in catalog order and he placed in catalog order, too. Out of the six or seven breeds I watched, not once did he deviate from catalog order: first dog in the ring always got first, etc. Just seemed really strange.
Later, a friend of mine who belonged to the club putting on the show called me. She'd been talking to the woman who drove that judge to the show and the woman had thanked her profusely for the club's courtesy to her friend, the judge. It turns out that the judge was losing his eyesight to diabetes and this was probably his last assignment because he wasn't getting any offers (imagine that).
I roared with laughter! My dog really *WAS* judged by a (legally) blind judge!
My boy finished the next day but I think the day before was a lot more memorable. I still giggle out loud when I think of that day.