I did. Sorry.
Honestly, many people are just plain intimated by scribing without ever trying it.
In addition, the evolution of electronic scribing has also cut into the pool - many that were not intimidated by old school write scribing either think they will not be able to keep up, don’t feel their typing skills are acceptable or are like my mom and are techo-phobic.
I know that I was pretty intimidated to start escribing. My tech skills are good, but can be lots of typos. Some judges are fussy about the typos - Gary Rockwell I’m looking at you. I used to leave a letter or two in the box if the judge was wordy so I could come back and catch up during longer movements but that is much harder to do escribing.
I’ve found that I can actually watch more of the ride escribing that write scribing, but once most judges realize I can keep up, they tend to get more and more verbose.
As I stated:
yep
I scribed yesterday for the first Combined Training a facility had held in close to a decade. A twenty rider, proof of concept type deal. All went off, but- yeah, being the crash test dummy, scribe version proved why they needed the trial run. I’m used (already) to scribes being handed a clipboard with all the test forms in order. Ten minutes til start, the runner hasn’t shown up with it and the judge sends me to fetch. I go to the show office to get the tests and…
Nothing is prepared. The folks taking payment aren’t sure where the order of go is! The forms are in a binder with numbers so we pull the remaining numbers out, I steal the binder plus the order of go page (w/ just names, it’s a VERY small and informal schooling setup just for POC) from someone’s clipboard, and run back to the judge. Then I have to get the tests in order of go on the quick.
For me, Having an order of go ready for the judge and instructions given to the office volunteers is just the water you swim in, it’s amazing what people can forget to arrange…lesson learned.
Of course her pen dies, so she gets my good gel pen and I take my wide-barrel ballpoint, nice but with some play in it which doesn’t help my speed writing.
I’ll take 3 gel pens next show (at my home barn), and start pitching polite fits at a half-hour out if I help the other barn again!!
So I’m sure such tales are one reason finding scribes sometimes gets hard.
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