Rule of Law - Part II

Last night I had an interesting experience while at the Bonnie Doon Stake Center. I went there for a Coorporate challenge basketball practice. The captain had booked the gym from 9-11 with the booking agent.

Wednesday nights are typically the night when all the young single guys come to that gym to play full court basketball. With us there, and practicing 1/2 court 3 on 3, it created a conflict for this group.

Althoug they grudgingly let us take that half of the court, one of the youg whipper snappers came over and began to debate with me our right to prevent them from playing their full court game. He presented the arguments such as "We always play Wednesday nights", "We've been doing this for 5 years, so its 'understood' that we have the gym", "We're members, and your not". As I countered these arguments, the underlying ace in the hole that upheld our right to be there was the "Rule of Law". The understood rule/law is that if you want exclusive rights to the gym, you must have it booked with the building booking agent. Since we had the booking, we, a minority, were protected in our rights by the "Rule of Law".