What a great day today! It’s sunny, 74 degrees, no wind, just about perfect! I’ve always been fascinated by biochemistry and I think if I have the chance I’m going to go back to school, pick up a degree in biology and look into the biochemical effects of sunlight on the adult male. Here’s why:
I went to the golf course today at 8 AM, while it was still 40 degrees out and there were already a dozen in my group of guys already there. Guys were getting out of their cars all with the same story – “I called off. It’s just too nice to work today.” We might need to look into the effects of gaseous mood enhancers also, as the more the sun brought out the aroma of the wet fall leaves, the more juvenile our behavior became. Twenty of us stood on the first tee, heckling each person as he teed off. Out on the course we told ribald jokes and anecdotes, yelled obscenities across fairways at each other, and even had a hickory nut fight. After play we sat on the porch of the clubhouse drinking beer and making fun of each other’s worst shots. One guy in our group is recovering from some eye surgery, and so we took the opportunity to surround the wiper blade area between the hood and windshield of his truck with several golf balls, and then watched and laughed as he drove off, scattering them all over the highway.
If you think you have my group figured out, let me put this behavior in perspective for you. The group includes me, of course, 45 yr old goofy scientist, three other guys my age, a 50 yr old engineer, a 58 yr old WV state Senator, one 60 year old school teacher who put the golf balls on the truck, two retired school teachers both 62, and five guys over 70, one of which is 82 who hit me from 30 yards right in the ass with a hickory nut as I was…relieving myself behind a bush.
I don’t know, but there has to be something in the aroma of the leaves, or the sun, or ok, maybe the beer.
