Good Thing Jews Don't Believe In Hell

The year is 2002 and my company has moved its offices from the city into the suburbs, which is great because now I'm about 12 minutes away from my home instead of 45 minutes. There's also a Jewish Center about a block away. This facility  is your standard Jewish Center with classrooms, meeting rooms, a fitness center and a gym. I decide to join so I can workout at lunch time. Well, every Friday, there is a basketball game that goes on at noon. I didn't have any desire to play in the game because most of the guys that played were really bad and uncoordinated(not that I'm getting calls from the NBA but I'm used to playing in better games than this). So one Friday around noon as I'm in the fitness center lifting weights, a guy comes in and says "We really need a player in our basketball game. Will you play?'  I say "No thank you. I'm just going to workout here"  He persists. "If you don't play, we don't have enough for a game. Can you play just one game?"  I said "Fine"  So the gym is constructed in that it has a regulation size basketball court but also 4 baskets on the sides meaning you can turn the big basketball court into 2 smaller basketball courts if there are a lot of people. So we begin to play on the big court. Well, all of a sudden some more people show up. Then a few more people show up. There's probably enough guys to play on 2 courts but we're still going to finish this first game on the big court. Well, there's a guy on the sidelines waiting that is yelling at all of us playing. He's yelling "Stop the game! We need to play on 2 courts! Stop the game!"  I mean this guy was a lunatic. We keep playing and he's still yelling to stop the game. I'm dribbling the ball up the court and this guy walks right into the middle of the court again yelling "Stop the game!!"  Well, I don't know about the other guys playing but I decided that I had listened to enough of this mental patient. I look right at him and yell "SIT YOUR ASS DOWN AND SHUT THE F*CK UP!"  He looks at me and turned around to walk back to the side of the gym. The game stops. People are looking at me amazed. I'm thinking "What's the big deal?". This isn't the first time (or probably the last) that I've yelled at someone that is out of hand. One of the guys walks up to me and says "Do you know who that is?" I said "No?"  He says "That's the new Rabbi at B'Nai Tikvah"  Without hesitation, I said "I don't care if he's the  Pope. He can wait his turn like everyone else" 

Alway making friends wherever I go!