Golf Partners

I played golf yesterday.   I hadn’t played in about 6 months.  That’s a long time for me to go without playing, even if it was over the winter.   It was nice to get out and play and we were blessed with pretty good weather.   I even played pretty well.   I’m always surprised that my game has not deteriorated more when I haven’t played in a while.

We were paired up with another twosome who seemed like a nice couple.   We were pretty compatible golfers, which if you’ve ever been randomly paired up at a golf course you know is really good.   I’ve been paired with people that have been great and people that have been horrible.   Having dealt with both extremes I am always thankful when my golfing partners fall to the good side of that continuum.   We had pretty good conversation throughout the round.  We learned that they also live in Portland, that they come over to Redmond a couple of times a month, and that they have a vacation house on the same street as ours.   I joked that they were probably our next door neighbors.

After discussing what we did for work, I asked the gentleman, “So how about you guys?  What do you do?”

“Well, we own a chain of adult bookstores.”

“Cool”, I responded and turned to get a club out of my bag.

There was a strange silence for a moment when finally his wife laughed and said, “No we don’t!”

He then said, “No, we’re lawyers, but people always like us better when we own a chain of adult bookstores. “

After the round we parted ways, but he gave us their phone number in case we were interested in playing with them again sometime.   I noted what kind of car they were driving so that I could look for it later and find out where on our street they live.   We didn’t see it when we got back to our house, but did notice it later in evening.   We saw them as they pulled into their driveway, next door.