Met a West Highland terrier named Niblick. Her owner has owned other terriers, including a previous West Highland. He says Niblick is by far the mouthiest, most opinionated dog he has ever owned. So here’s the thing people. Terriers have enough attitude as it is. Apparently naming them after old time golf clubs just compounds the problem. So just don’t do it.
PS. Terrier though she may be, Niblick the cat would eat Niblick the dog for lunch. He has lots of experience with mouthy terriers.
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Golfing Offspring #2 was playing a game of Scatagories. The category was ‘Famous Athlete’. The letter was E. No one else came up with any thing, so GO#2 was the only one to get a point for that category. Her answer? Ernie Els of course.
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Golfing Offspring #3 recently had a birthday. What did he ask for? A 5 wood. How many 12 year old boys you know would ask for a 5 wood? Do we raise them right or what? ( Okay he also asked for a video game chair. But he spent 10 minutes in the back yard swinging the new club BEFORE he plunked himself down in the new chair to deal with Mario. The kid has his priorities straight. )
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I also had a birthday recently. I also got a new 5 wood. The family that plays together……
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Starting this school year both Offspring who still live at home take a bus to school. ( short interlude while TGW dances the NO MORE CARPOOL !!!! jig….okay, we now return to the post ) So it is time to trade the Mom-Mobile in on something smaller and..well..less mom like. The criteria for its replacement are:
The smallest AWD vehicle( it snows out here in the Wild West, ya
know?) that:
1. can hold 4 adults
2. can hold 4 golf bags as well as the afore mentioned 4 adults.
3. has enough power to get the afore mentioned adults and golf bags up over Berthoud Pass so they can play Pole Creek.
So we spent a recent Saturday afternoon doing test drives. We brought 2 bags of clubs with us. The conversations went something like this:
Salesguy: Hi there, I see you’re looking at vehicle XYZ. Want to take it for
a drive?
Us: Well, actually, first we have to make sure it’s big enough.
Salesguy: Big enough for what?
Us: Big enough to hold 4 bags of golf clubs.
Salesguy: Oh, I’m sure it is. Salesguy Bob over there has one and he
has his clubs in it all the time.
Us: Okay, but we’d like to check, just to make sure, if you don’t mind.
Could you open the back for us?
Salesguy: Uh, sure. You gonna measure?
Us: ( taking golf bags out of the Mom-Mobile ) No, we’re going to try it
out.
Salesguy: Wow. You guys are really serious about this, aren’t you?
Us: Yeah
Totally serious.
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