Caddyshack Moment?
Exploding Irrigation System Drives Golfers Insane!
It's the big Christmas tree lighting extravaganza at a nationally-famous golf mecca here in Florida. Eighty degree weather, you'd never know the peeps were suffering near whiteout conditions to the north. This night, our only concern is that we might get a rain shower, which never happened.
That doesn't mean we didn't get w-e-t!
What is ABM doing on a golf course, anyhow?
Dragging down a few extra bucks to pay for the Z-Bars which haven't made it back from the powdercoater. A couple of us agreed to set up a big sound system for the hundreds of country club members who come out each year to imbibe, hit the buffet line, & get fuzzy with their neighbors. Highlight of the nite is when your faithful servant rocks the mike with a 10-9-8, & we light the tree.
Get to the point will ya?
I'm trying, don't bother me. So we lite up the beautiful spruce, floating atop a small barge in the middle of a palm tree surrounded lagoon, which is in the middle of the golf course, which is where we're standing, atop a riser with the speakers. With less than 30 minutes left in the gig, and the crowd at it's max, the first sprinkler goes off like a busted Manhattan water main, directly underneath the right speaker, and this is not a little old chicken-poop lawn sprinkler, this is a heavy, million gallon per minute commercial atomic-hydra-death system! Three feet away, it blasts rows of bottles of top shelf liquor off the fancy banquet tables, along with the servers, and formerly dry cc members standing in line for a shot or two. Anticipating further mayhem, (this ain't our first rodeo), ABM stashes the electronic stuff, and prepares for the worst. Santa & Mrs Claus got it next, then various pods of adults and kids all over the course from at least a dozen irrigation outlets. You could be standing in a dry spot, when suddenly, a 90 foot plume of H2O provided an unexpected golf course enema! It's probably a safe bet that the grounds keeper will have a little "splain-in" to do this morning!
..and you thought this was gonna be another TW story..
It's the big Christmas tree lighting extravaganza at a nationally-famous golf mecca here in Florida. Eighty degree weather, you'd never know the peeps were suffering near whiteout conditions to the north. This night, our only concern is that we might get a rain shower, which never happened.
That doesn't mean we didn't get w-e-t!
What is ABM doing on a golf course, anyhow?
Dragging down a few extra bucks to pay for the Z-Bars which haven't made it back from the powdercoater. A couple of us agreed to set up a big sound system for the hundreds of country club members who come out each year to imbibe, hit the buffet line, & get fuzzy with their neighbors. Highlight of the nite is when your faithful servant rocks the mike with a 10-9-8, & we light the tree.
Get to the point will ya?
I'm trying, don't bother me. So we lite up the beautiful spruce, floating atop a small barge in the middle of a palm tree surrounded lagoon, which is in the middle of the golf course, which is where we're standing, atop a riser with the speakers. With less than 30 minutes left in the gig, and the crowd at it's max, the first sprinkler goes off like a busted Manhattan water main, directly underneath the right speaker, and this is not a little old chicken-poop lawn sprinkler, this is a heavy, million gallon per minute commercial atomic-hydra-death system! Three feet away, it blasts rows of bottles of top shelf liquor off the fancy banquet tables, along with the servers, and formerly dry cc members standing in line for a shot or two. Anticipating further mayhem, (this ain't our first rodeo), ABM stashes the electronic stuff, and prepares for the worst. Santa & Mrs Claus got it next, then various pods of adults and kids all over the course from at least a dozen irrigation outlets. You could be standing in a dry spot, when suddenly, a 90 foot plume of H2O provided an unexpected golf course enema! It's probably a safe bet that the grounds keeper will have a little "splain-in" to do this morning!
..and you thought this was gonna be another TW story..
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