The Boys Meet At The Golf Course<\/p>\n
No more Stickball Games, no more Off-The Curb, no more Street Hockey. Grandfather Time has caught up with us.<\/p>\n
\u201cOy!. I could hardly schlep <\/em>my clubs to the golf cart.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t listen. When I tell you to work out at the gym with me, you have a hundred excuses not to go.<\/p>\n \u201cI have heartburn. White socks make my legs look bony. I can\u2019t get a discount on good sneakers. A t-shirt will show my belly. My gym shorts crawl up my ass.\u201c<\/p>\n \u201cYou have been going to the gym before you were born. I can\u2019t just start it with a back that stabs me whenever I bend.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh. another excuse. I had rehab after my surgery and I still go to the gym.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cRehab, shmehab, how many more years do you think we have on this earth? Am I going to spend it torturing myself at a gym?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGet your clubs into the cart and let\u2019s make fools of ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen are those misfits going to get off the first green? It looks like they\u2019re having a debate on how to hold a putter.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLook at that yokel in the green plaid pants. He thinks he\u2019s at the beach with his ball in that sand trap\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDo you think you can do better?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWith one hand tied behind my back.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd with the other hand you\u2019ll eat at bagel with cream cheese.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCome on. They left the green. Tee off.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIs that the way the Pro taught you to stand? The golf ball for sure will fly into the woods. Roll down your sleeves, you might get poison ivy trying to retrieve it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh. A smart ass. I\u2019ll take my ball off the tee and you show me how to hit the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf you didn\u2019t learn from all the lessons you took from the club Pro and that CD guide, how can I help you?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cStand next to the ball the right way, hold the driver the right way, and turn your hips the right way. That should send the ball straight down the fairway.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf I hit the ball the right way, I wouldn’t be be playing with you.”<\/p>\n \u201cWatch me.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDid you see it? Where did it go? Another five bucks shot to hell. I feel like leaving and drowning my clubs in that lake.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s go and eat. This game is getting on my nerves.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cA great idea, and maybe later we\u2019ll go to the gym.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Boys Meet At The Golf Course No more Stickball Games, no more Off-The Curb, no more Street Hockey. Grandfather Time has caught up with us. \u201cOy!. I could hardly schlep my clubs to the golf cart.\u201d \u201cYou don\u2019t listen. When I tell you to work out at the gym with me, you have a… Continue reading The Boys Meet At The Golf course<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielwolfebooks.com\/danielsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielwolfebooks.com\/danielsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielwolfebooks.com\/danielsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielwolfebooks.com\/danielsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielwolfebooks.com\/danielsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielwolfebooks.com\/danielsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielwolfebooks.com\/danielsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielwolfebooks.com\/danielsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielwolfebooks.com\/danielsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielwolfebooks.com\/danielsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}