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This paper is surging with the hormones
of a teenager. Additionally, since it was a Freshman English Essay,
it has long paragraphs.
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"A Caddy's View of Men and Women Golfers"
Every Saturday and Sunday about
five old winos, around thirty other teenage boys, and I would wait in a
room. The room was known as the Caddy Shack, and we were Caddies,
of course. We waited to hear our names followed by "front and center"
over an intercom. The Caddy Master was assigning us to golfers, and
he needed us in front of the Pro-Shop. I always hoped my appointments would
be with women, because there were distinct advantages to caddying for women
as opposed to men golfers.
One reason I always hoped my
appointments would be with women was because they had better dispositions.
Men played golf like the fate of the world depended on their every shot.
As their balls flew through the air heading for a patch of trees, a lake,
or a sand trap, they shouted a locker-room-full of obscenities. Sometimes,
they even went into full-blown tantrums. Like one time, after this
"nut" finished his flare for cursing, he ran over to a ball-wash and whacked
it with his golf club until his club was bent. Then he threw his
club into the woods and ran toward me. He reached me and grabbed
more clubs out of his bag, and he started bending them over his knee and
throwing them into the woods. Conversely, the women exhibited no
signs of this testosterone madness. However, they did demonstrate
signs of estrogen surges. This was when they talked to their balls in-flight.
They sounded like they were trying to influence lovers in their beds.
For example, as one lady's shot whizzed off, she wailed, "Up, up, up, get-it-up,
go-go-go, no, not over there, yes-yes, there--there, further, further,
further!" Also I've seen women show an enormous amount of patience.
One time, three women were actually trying to putt, as this new caddy danced
around on the green's edge, waved the flagpole in the wind, and acted like
he was in a marching band at half time. Men more accustomed to barking
complaints and orders would have thrown this crazy caddy over a hill.
The physical advantages of having
a woman golfer were readily observable. Women's golf bags were smaller
and easier to carry. Men liked having big ones, with lead-heavy bottoms,
that were able to stand erect even in the deepest rough. Their bags
were symbols of phallic power. Women's were dainty with very little
or no weighty bottoms. Although some old ladies used caddies, most
ladies gracefully carried their golf bags. However, every man over
twenty seemed to need an extension of his manliness; he wanted his symbol
of virility toted by--the Caddy. Another consideration that made
bags burdensome was the number of golf balls in them. When the big boys
teed off, they had around fifty balls with them. This compulsion
for lots of balls in their bags wasn't among the fairer sex, who only carried
around nine with them. Because men's tee shots were farther and higher
than women's, they were harder to follow. Hence, it was more difficult
to do a good job. With men, I was like a decrepit old bird dog only
following the golfers around, but with women, I was like the Pointer, sporting
dog, always directing them to where their shots had fallen. On rare
occasions, young ladies used caddies. Even though they didn't wear
their customary short tennis dresses showing-off those smoothly tanned
thighs, I still enjoyed watching them more than the men or old ladies.
However, the men tried displaying their best side. They did things
like bending over, farting loudly, and singing, "I feel good--dut-ta-dut-ta-ta-dut-dutta-dutta-dut-like
I knew I would!" On the other hand, watching the old ladies bend
over was downright dangerous; it was rumored to cause blindness and drinking
among winos.
Even though the Caddy Master decided whom
I caddied for, this didn't stop me from hoping that I'd get the golfers
with the smaller bags and better dispositions, the women. And I especially
wanted those young good-looking ones. However, ninety-nine percent
of the time, I toted the men's heavy bags, so I learnt to tolerate their
attitudes and appreciate their locker-room humor.
Copyright , © 2001
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