Out Of Bounds Comments

This strikes as a Poem of Patience to the Nth degree, and then just one more occurrence and WHAM! there s no patience left. So the much put-upon speaker is just one or at best two or three incidents from that break down. The analogy of sports and life works because both share (in the language of sports) a playing field, a book of rules, a set of skills and a cooperative spirit. Any missing component will sink the effort.