This reminds me of the worst thing I ever saw on a softball field. The umpire went out from behind home to dust off the plate. Now, if you’re familiar with that procedure, you know that he faces the plate and bends over at the waist while doing the brushing. Damned if I know what posessed him to do this, but the batter due up next took a step out of the box to directly behind the ump, put his hands out in front of him at approximately the umpire’s hip level (but not actually touching him, of course) and started pantomiming the same sort of thing you had happen to you. I was playing first base, so had almost the perfect angle to maximize the visual effect, such as it was.

We were getting our butts whipped at the time, so I was praying that the ump would turn around, catch him at it, and maybe forfeit the game to us. No such luck.

(That was an awesome play, btw. Effective and hilarious all at once.)