"I'm from the government and I'm here to help"

[AngryAmish]

So my club is not open yet and I got the itch to golf so I drove out to the suburbs this morning to play (too cold and windy but I did it).

So I get to this course that is over 100 years old and is going to undergo a major renovation. It was scheduled to start this summer so I ask some of the guys working there when it is supposed to start. It turns out the project is being delayed a year or two because the Army Corps of Engineers has concerns about stormwater retention and is doing a study.

So the guys there start complaining about the "government". First guy drops my headline here, nest guy says the government always screws things up, etc and they are just yukking it up.

Thing is, the course where I was at was owned by the county government! THese guys, who were complaining about governmental incompetence, were government employees!!

I just shook my head and walked to the first tee.

[NightWatcher]

1. My family hates "the Government" and talks shit on it at every get together

I don't know who they think "the Government" is. Amongst my family who hate "the Government" are a retired Army Corps of Engineer emp, four vets, a mailman, a cop, a state prosecutor, a fireman, public school teacher, and a state health department worker.

Um guys, you ARE THE GOVERNMENT.

[dionysus]

2. how'd you shoot? place i play at opened last thurs.. then we got a foot of wet snow 2 days later :(

[AngryAmish]

4. Still have my two way miss

I quit after 14 because I was too cold. Constant 2 club wind, gusts up to 4 club wind. Almost holed out a 40 yard bunker shot on 14, figured just end the day on a par.

[Tikki]

3. But, but…it's different…it's your government they are complaining about.

Their government is A-OK. And by the way, if golfers had been swallowed up in a sink hole
on that course before the testing started they would have screamed about how the government failed.
LOSERS...

Tikki

[11 Bravo]

5. How you hitting them? I got in nine holes this morning myself.

It was cool and cloudy, but NO PRECIP! Even better, the course told us to play lift, clean, and place, so that saved me probably three strokes right there! (42, 6 over, for 9, and this early in the season I'm more than satisfied with that.)

[AngryAmish]

8. 48, but I played everything down and the wind was howling

Top five windiest time I ever played golf. The other five were par, bogey, double, par. The record was Crooked Stick in 1990 and when you get on Crooked Stick, you go.

[Zen Democrat]

6. Someone gave threw that "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you" line at me.

I responded, "Yeah, you mean like the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in 2008 when FEMA set up camp 1/2 mile down the road with bottled water, ice, and food? Yes, the government was a huge help on the ground for at least a month after that disaster."

No response. But I hope he thinks before throwing that sarcastic line around so easily.

[hfojvt]

7. that's one of my favorite lines

since I do work for the government.

and I do help.

But sometimes they do create obstacles and expenses and are a pain to try to reason with.