When playing high-school sports, one of the things that most coaches stress is the importance of good sportsmanship.

What would you do if you were always told that being a good sport was critical, but there was a lady in the crowd who was constantly yelling and being rude throughout the whole game?

That is what the player in this story was dealing with, so when he saw the opportunity, he couldn’t pass it up. While inbounding the ball, he took half a step back and ‘accidentally’ stomped on her foot, which really shut her up (for a moment).

While that is obviously not the right thing to do, it sure is funny. Read through the full story below and see what you think.

Loud parent at a basketball game

Back in my senior high school, I played basketball for a team that was very big on sportsmanship and being respectful.

Learning good sportsmanship is important.

My coach never let us respond negatively and always made sure our actions and words on the court were kind. Honestly, I loved it and she’s one of the best coaches I’ve ever had.

However, there was one game that was getting a little heated and chippy (on the other team’s part) and the score was pretty close.

Some people really get into the games, and not in a good way.

Usually people in the stands didn’t bug me and I blocked them out, but there was just one woman in the other team’s fan section that would not shut up.

She whined and complained about every call, yelling at her team, my team, the ref, and she was generally being really rude and loud for being in the bleachers.

Learning to put up with people like this can be difficult.

Looking back now that I play sports in college, she really wasn’t that bad haha, but she really made me mad that day.

Like I mentioned earlier, there wasn’t much I could say or do about it. But at one point the ball goes out of bounds right in front of her, and I was my team’s usual in-bounder.

The spectators need to make room for the players in a small gym.

Now, her chair was pretty close to the court, and it was a small gym so my shoe was almost touching the shoes of the people sitting behind me.

The ref had paused the game to sub some people in, and I heard her complaining behind me. I wish I could remember now what she had been saying but it’s been a while.

She’ll never know that it was done on purpose.

The ref eventually blows the whistle for me to play it and I took that chance to take a step back and (totally not intentionally) stepped down on her shoe.

I heard her scoff all irritated and get all flustered (which was rather dramatic in my opinion, but also made me smile to myself) and then I threw the ball in and the game kept moving.

Sometimes, it is the small pleasures that make life worth living.

Not a big heroic story where someone gets humbled in a big way, but I still smile when I think back about this memory lol.

While this is obviously not the right thing to do, it is a pretty funny story. I doubt it taught her any type of lesson, though.

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Oh well, read on to see what the people in the comments think about the story.

Now this is just too funny.

Yup, they can’t prove he did it on purpose.

This guy loves the idea too.

This can be so effective.

Sometimes the wrong thing to do just feels so right. She was harassing these kids the entire game, and finally got a little bit of payback.

The best part of the whole thing is that she can’t prove that he did it intentionally. Let’s just hope that he doesn’t have to do it again.

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