Plinyyounger
Magistrate Ancient Rome
- Joined
- Jan 10, 2015
- Messages
- 1,967
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- Location
- El Dorado Hills Ca
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- fake peopl
Hi to all of you! So I do not consider my self anal or even irritable but I ran into something today while playing that really bothered me.
i have only been back in the game for a few months, I'm really enjoying it and during the last two rounds have actually been respectable, an 81 yesterday and 83 today. I have a lot of practice to do still. But fun anyway!
while playing today, I was a single hooked up with a couple guys who were very nice but their game was...hal should I say it...different. They wanted to compete from the first hole, I told them I was just practicing but would participate anyway, I wanted to be cordial.
Well, right off the first tee they told me about the rule they use wherein if they don't hit it 10 yards they will hit another, lol. Not a good sign. It turns out any shot they didn't like they rehit, and reHit again until they were satisfied, lol. No problem, but it was irritating to hear them claim pars after I watched them hit 5 shots over! Not the issue though, although it was disturbing.
my issue is, these nice gentlemen, every time I was either on the tee or on the green they would not shut up. They were not doing it on purpose, just talked, talked talked, or cleaned their balls while I'm swinging, or cleaning their shoes on the shoe cleaner, it was non stop.
i was polite, tried to ignore it but on the tee on the 18th hole, the dude with the mouth that wouldn't stop said to me after I stepped away from my ball, "you get distracted easily don't you?" I told him no, noise only bothers me when it's unexpected. He said, "you should work on that!" Lol. I told him, I normally just hope the players I'm with are respectable and don't make noise when they should be quiet. I think he got the message. Nah, no he didn't.
I was pissed at myself for letting it bother me, but a train passing by is okay, other noises are okay. But I think what actually bothers me is when I don't get the respect I really try to give others.
im not a complainer, but today was CrAZY!
Thoughts? Let me know if I'm the crazy one.
i have only been back in the game for a few months, I'm really enjoying it and during the last two rounds have actually been respectable, an 81 yesterday and 83 today. I have a lot of practice to do still. But fun anyway!
while playing today, I was a single hooked up with a couple guys who were very nice but their game was...hal should I say it...different. They wanted to compete from the first hole, I told them I was just practicing but would participate anyway, I wanted to be cordial.
Well, right off the first tee they told me about the rule they use wherein if they don't hit it 10 yards they will hit another, lol. Not a good sign. It turns out any shot they didn't like they rehit, and reHit again until they were satisfied, lol. No problem, but it was irritating to hear them claim pars after I watched them hit 5 shots over! Not the issue though, although it was disturbing.
my issue is, these nice gentlemen, every time I was either on the tee or on the green they would not shut up. They were not doing it on purpose, just talked, talked talked, or cleaned their balls while I'm swinging, or cleaning their shoes on the shoe cleaner, it was non stop.
i was polite, tried to ignore it but on the tee on the 18th hole, the dude with the mouth that wouldn't stop said to me after I stepped away from my ball, "you get distracted easily don't you?" I told him no, noise only bothers me when it's unexpected. He said, "you should work on that!" Lol. I told him, I normally just hope the players I'm with are respectable and don't make noise when they should be quiet. I think he got the message. Nah, no he didn't.
I was pissed at myself for letting it bother me, but a train passing by is okay, other noises are okay. But I think what actually bothers me is when I don't get the respect I really try to give others.
im not a complainer, but today was CrAZY!
Thoughts? Let me know if I'm the crazy one.