The Story of my Saturday

[Kirby]

I got up early to take my car to the garage for an oil change.  This made me feel productive. But I got held up with some work emails and left later than I had planned.  This made me mad.  But when I got to the garage, they could take me right away which made me happy.  I I'm always slightly intimidated by the owner who is a brusque Eastern European, but I've dealt with him for years and trust him.  He didn't make me feel bad, so I felt good.

After that I did some errands and came home for lunch.  That made me feel accomplished.  I was all set to do some laundry and take a nap, when I heard a loud bang and glass came flying around my bedroom.  This made me feel alarmed and my cat was worse.  Then I remembered I live next to a golf course and I went out to see which bad player had put a golf ball through my bedroom window.  I saw two rather young teens on the course and one of them was trying to move away quickly which isn't easy to do when you are carrying a set of golf clubs.  I called them over and the young boy who had hit the ball (not the one running away) seemed nervous (probably afraid of telling his parents) but was very polite and asked what he should do.  This made me feel bad for him, so I just asked him to ask the golf course to come help cover up the window since it was going to rain.

Then I started cleaning up the glass from the bed and all over the floor which made me nervous, but I think I got it all, which made me feel relieved.  Then I called the glass company who said they had the right glass in stock and could come on Monday to fix it, which made me happy.  The golf course people came and covered up the window, which made me feel better.

Then I was finally able to take a nap which made me feel very happy (and less tired).

The End

[petitepedal]

  And no young person was killed in the process...You did great....did you get  something from the kid..like hauling out your trash for the next 2 years...or fixing your closet?  

[Airehead]

Oh dear, what a shock

[Page Turner]

...your life there always sounds like such a great adventure, and filled with feeling.  Here, I repotted a couple of cacti after going over to the place I buy pots (not the place I buy pot, which is a different place).  Then I stopped in at the bakery and ate an orange glazed morning bun (which I admit made me feel pretty good  ).

Then I drove home past the annual Land Park Doggy Dash, which had just ended.  There were a lot of dogs heading on home with a person in tow.  This made me feel mixed, emotionally. i was happy that all those dogs had a warm indoor place to sleep and regular meals, but sad for them that their owners were so much slower, and they had to pull them.

 

But mostly, I am emotionally drained, and I feel dead inside.   And @AirwickWithCheese has once again gone waltzing Matilda, so I can't get any cheap laughs at his expense.  

[Ralphie]

31 minutes ago, Page Turner said:

...your life there always sounds like such a great adventure, and filled with feeling.  Here, I repotted a couple of cacti after going over to the place I buy pots (not the place I buy pot, which is a different place).  Then I stopped in at the bakery and ate an orange glazed morning bun (which I admit made me feel pretty good  ).

Then I drove home past the annual Land Park Doggy Dash, which had just ended.  There were a lot of dogs heading on home with a person in tow.  This made me feel mixed, emotionally. i was happy that all those dogs had a warm indoor place to sleep and regular meals, but sad for them that their owners were so much slower, and they had to pull them.

 

But mostly, I am emotionally drained, and I feel dead inside.   And @AirwickWithCheese has once again gone waltzing Matilda, so I can't get any cheap laughs at his expense.  

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so I cried.

 

[Ralphie]

I thought it was hilarious that a house next to a golf course I was playing had absolutely destroyed asbestos shingle siding and a big For Sale sign on the lawn. ;D

I also clearly remember 30 years ago when I hit a high shot and we were all just standing there watching it head toward a parking lot, and I was worried it might hit the plastic Pontiac Fiero, but it hit the parking lot and bounced very high but amazingly didn't hit anything.

That course was infamous for having the condos too intermingled with the links.

 

 

 

[Further]

Doesn't the golf course have insurance to cover this type of thing ? 

[Further]

I went running in the woods, which was great, nice cool day. Pushing hard on the uphills, I topped a short (100 feet ? ) steep, slippery, grade that a month ago had me gasping to walk.

So I went all out, topped that sucker still moving pretty good, stopped to catch my breath and began to question the wisdom of being an old fart running hard in the woods, where there is no around to laugh at me....or call 911....

[Wilbur]

8 minutes ago, Further said:

Doesn't the golf course have insurance to cover this type of thing ? 

Mine did.  I made the mistake of buying 150 yards from a tee box.  We had 8 broken windows in the first year.  I also had about 100 balls.  We sold.  Too dangerous to sit in your own yard. 

[Ralphie]

2 minutes ago, wilbur said:

Mine did.  I made the mistake of buying 150 yards from a tee box.  We had 8 broken windows in the first year.  I also had about 100 balls.  We sold.  Too dangerous to sit in your own yard. 

Residences on a golf course sounds like something from a Far Side cartoon.

 

[Scrapr]

1 hour ago, wilbur said:

Mine did.  I made the mistake of buying 150 yards from a tee box.  We had 8 broken windows in the first year.  I also had about 100 balls.  We sold.  Too dangerous to sit in your own yard. 

My folks built a house right at 1 good drive from the tee box. The last few years they put up a see through net over the big window most impacted. I think they only had a couple windows broken in about 40 years there.  Most of them fessed up. Wurst shot was one that went over the house into the street

It was nice that you could look out over open space & not houses. There were houses on the other side of the fairway later though

[Road Runner]

3 hours ago, Kirby said:

the young boy who had hit the ball was very polite and asked what he should do.

You should have told him that his ball landed in your cat's litter box, so he will probably need to use a sand wedge or a nine iron for his next shot.

[Dottleshead]

3 hours ago, Further said:

Doesn't the golf course have insurance to cover this type of thing ? 

Uninsured golf courses.  The worst.

[shootingstar]

In our area, 1-2 golf courses have been sold to developers...which has pissed off some neighbouring home owners (who probably didn't get their windows smashed).

  Membership locally is going down... do millennials and younger go golfing much at all these days?  I do have a close friend who is a long time golfer and goes golfing with her gal pals (and they all have comfortable middle class incomes) locally and even in the U.S. as part of vacation.  She is approx. 10 yrs. younger than I.   

[maddmaxx]

Golf is a game designed to spoil a pleasant walk.