At the start of the Cricket Term, Nicola is called to see one of the staff (Miss Kempe?) in the sunk garden, and the teacher thinks it's Lawrie. But she's quite willing to accept it's Nicola when she's told. I reckon the netball team mix-up would be similar - most people might think "Lawrie" looked more like Nicola, but would just assume they were wrong.
(I've been to a football match - not the World Cup Final - where a Burnley player was booked twice, which should have been an automatic sending off. But the ref got the player numbers mixed up - and although the incidents were clearly seen by both linesmen, the fourth official, the complete opposition team, the manager and all his officials, and 7,000 people in the crowd - all those people assumed the ref must be right, we must be wrong, and our man stayed on the field. It's astonishing how many people can disbelieve the evidence of their own eyes if they think someone else knows better.
Tim never assumes she's wrong - she doesn't believe she's ever wrong. Marie got the hint when Nicola used her own desk and writing box, and followed it up for proof. Jan and Lois recognised the style of play, and both would have been quite prepared to do the same (Jan because she disregards rules and conventions, Lois because she's naturally deceitful) so both were temperamentally inclined to believe what they saw. Miss Craven wasn't watching the junior match, or she would have noticed. Ann is too honest for the switch to have occurred to her, and Ginty doesn't seem particularly close to either Nick or Lawrie. And for Esther, is there any recorded occasion when she did talk to Lawrie without Nicola being present? I think Esther faded into the background when Nick wasn't there. IMHO.p - and although the incidents were clearly seen by both linesmen, the fourth official, the complete opposition team, the manager and all his officials, and 7,000 people in the crowd - all those people assumed the ref must be right, we must be wrong, and our man stayed on the field.
Tim never assumes she's wrong - she doesn't believe she's ever wrong. Marie got the hint when Nicola used her own desk and writing box, and followed it up for proof. Jan and Lois recognised the style of play, and both would have been quite prepared to do the same (Jan because she disregards rules and conventions, Lois because she's naturally deceitful) so both were temperamentally inclined to believe what they saw. Miss Craven wasn't watching the junior match, or she would have noticed. Ann is too honest for the switch to have occurred to her, and Ginty doesn't seem particularly close to either Nick or Lawrie. And for Esther, is there any recorded occasion when she did talk to Lawrie without Nicola being present? I think Esther faded into the background when Nick wasn't there. IMHO.
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Date: 2014-01-14 07:07 pm (UTC)(I've been to a football match - not the World Cup Final - where a Burnley player was booked twice, which should have been an automatic sending off. But the ref got the player numbers mixed up - and although the incidents were clearly seen by both linesmen, the fourth official, the complete opposition team, the manager and all his officials, and 7,000 people in the crowd - all those people assumed the ref must be right, we must be wrong, and our man stayed on the field. It's astonishing how many people can disbelieve the evidence of their own eyes if they think someone else knows better.
Tim never assumes she's wrong - she doesn't believe she's ever wrong. Marie got the hint when Nicola used her own desk and writing box, and followed it up for proof. Jan and Lois recognised the style of play, and both would have been quite prepared to do the same (Jan because she disregards rules and conventions, Lois because she's naturally deceitful) so both were temperamentally inclined to believe what they saw. Miss Craven wasn't watching the junior match, or she would have noticed. Ann is too honest for the switch to have occurred to her, and Ginty doesn't seem particularly close to either Nick or Lawrie. And for Esther, is there any recorded occasion when she did talk to Lawrie without Nicola being present? I think Esther faded into the background when Nick wasn't there. IMHO.p - and although the incidents were clearly seen by both linesmen, the fourth official, the complete opposition team, the manager and all his officials, and 7,000 people in the crowd - all those people assumed the ref must be right, we must be wrong, and our man stayed on the field.
Tim never assumes she's wrong - she doesn't believe she's ever wrong. Marie got the hint when Nicola used her own desk and writing box, and followed it up for proof. Jan and Lois recognised the style of play, and both would have been quite prepared to do the same (Jan because she disregards rules and conventions, Lois because she's naturally deceitful) so both were temperamentally inclined to believe what they saw. Miss Craven wasn't watching the junior match, or she would have noticed. Ann is too honest for the switch to have occurred to her, and Ginty doesn't seem particularly close to either Nick or Lawrie. And for Esther, is there any recorded occasion when she did talk to Lawrie without Nicola being present? I think Esther faded into the background when Nick wasn't there. IMHO.