Well, I am glad that golfing is on the go now that the clubs have opened for the season. Sure makes for an opportunity to get some exercise while having a lot of frustrating fun with family and friends. It is so much fun to have people that enjoy the same kinds of entertainment that we do. They say that ’a family that plays together, stays together.’ In the context here, I am speaking about my sis and bros-in-law who came up for the weekend for some golf and a good time at the Lynbrook Golf Course.
My brother-in-law seems to be a happy guy now, after his forced-into early retirement that he didn’t think he wanted quite yet. I guess it takes some people years to adjust but he says he rather likes not having to get up and go directly to work each morning.
Another thing that made me chuckle this past weekend was when I asked him what his plans are when they get home. He told me he wants to go looking for a convertible…and at that I gave him the ‘smirk’ and said, “What is it about you old guys that makes you want to buy a convertible or a show-off model?”
Isn’t it sort of that way, that when an aging male seems to be in mid-life crisis, they feel they need a sporty new model to drive around? I mean a car, not one that walks on two legs.
Next leg of the conversation went, “…And now what?”
Well, he’s been concocting a plan for them to take to the road shortly after helping his brother on the farm seeding in a few weeks. The plan is to drive to the coast, head south to California and then to Phoenix and back home, probably the long-route that can take as long as they can afford. Sounds like a great plan and I certainly hope his dreams come true.
I can just see it now, hood down with him in his red scarf flapping in the wind and his blonde-haired wife of many years enjoying the breeze like a dog in the wind. Together they will roam the trails only made for sporty new models and drive off into the sunset like in the movies. I can’t wait for the stories when they return.
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