Back in the last half decade of the last century of the last millennium, I tried diligently for nearly a decade to learn to play golf – lessons, driving ranges, the works. All I managed in those ten years was losing golf balls, catching poison ivy, and having to kill the occasional snake. One day, I’d had enough. I chucked my bag, clubs and all, into the lake and walked away. I took up 10-pin bowling. In a bowling alley, I never lost a ball, never caught poison ivy, and snakes avoided the place like the plague. I’m older now, but I can still bowl an average of 185 or so. But even I must admit, my golfing experience did, in fact, vastly improve my command of profanity.
Back in the last half decade of the last century of the last millennium, I tried diligently for nearly a decade to learn to play golf – lessons, driving ranges, the works. All I managed in those ten years was losing golf balls, catching poison ivy, and having to kill the occasional snake. One day, I’d had enough. I chucked my bag, clubs and all, into the lake and walked away. I took up 10-pin bowling. In a bowling alley, I never lost a ball, never caught poison ivy, and snakes avoided the place like the plague. I’m older now, but I can still bowl an average of 185 or so. But even I must admit, my golfing experience did, in fact, vastly improve my command of profanity.