The Joy of Spring or how I wish I could get outta town,

[Bogey]

Well it is that time of year again...the Master's Golf Tournament.    And this pathetic town will be famous for 1 more time for one more week.   And after the tournament, it wil slide back into the muck, forgotten for the other 51 weeks.   You people cannot believe the insanity that takes place here.    Normally,  I am out of town for at least a week but my Wife has to cover at the hospital and cannot get off this year.    So I'm stuck.

If anyone is thinking of coming for the event and you don't have tickets....don't come.    You stand a very real chance of being robbed on a ticket buying quest. Recently,  a man was robbed at gun point of $ 14,000 thinking he was buying tickets from a gentleman that he meet somewhere in town.   And yes the tickets are that expensive for actuall tournament play.  The " camp followers " are thick and will take you for anything they can.

Camp followers = thieves.

[RedFeather]

When my father-in-law was working for Alcoa back in Rochester, New York in the 1950's, they had the US Open at the course where the headquarters building sits. One of the holes was right off of his office and he got to see some of the great golfers of the day. It's a memory he still cherishes. So, it sometimes isn't all bad.

[airiscool]

I understand some of what your going through.

My Girl Friend lives in Satatoga Springs about three blocks from the race tracks. For the two months of track season the population of the city doubles. The noise from the many Downtown bars can be heard 1/2 mile away at her place and it goes on until 4 am.

Traffic, and finding parking is as bad as midtown Manhattan. They have the highest number of bars and resturants per capita and during those two months there's still long waits to get a seat for dinner. And on weekends even more pore in from outside the area. During the races, all the residential streets up to her place are choked with cars that couldn't fit in the big parking lots of the track.

Paul

[Bogey]

RedFeather - 4/2/2010  8:54 PM

When my father-in-law was working for Alcoa back in Rochester, New York in the 1950's, they had the US Open at the course where the headquarters building sits.  One of the holes was right off of his office and he got to see some of the great golfers of the day.  It's a memory he still cherishes.  So, it sometimes isn't all bad.

Well, RedFeather, I wish it was llike the early years of the Masters.    Now, unless you are actually at the course you have almost zero chance of seeing one of the pros.   The Augusta National has worked very hard over the years to buy out all the properties surrounding the course.   They have huge screens erected and dense foliage around the course  to prevent what they consider prying eyes.   They even control most of the parking.    

The players come and leave the course with as much security as the President.   Some don't even stay in Augusta, preferring to fly out at the end of each day.

But the drunks and their hell raising is something else.   Every year it seems, at least one smashes up a car and kills somebody.

[RedFeather]

Aw, quite yer complainin'! You guys got it easy. Every two to four years, you elect a bunch of new morons and their fart catchers and send them to DC and the surrounding environs where they make a general mess of everything, then their constituency blames all the people living here for everybody's troubles. If only someone WOULD put a wall up around Congress!  

[Bogey]

RedFeather,   I agree with you about D.C..   My Wife and I really like the state of Virginia.    But we noticed that the closer we got to the DC area,  the less enjoyable the state bacame.

Virginia is one of the prettiest states that I have been to and is loaded with history.

And I am sorry about the low life that is elected and sent to D.C.    I would run for office but... I am in the Witness Protection program,  I have something to hide, and I am ashamed of my real name.    So that pretty much rules me out.

You could run.

[RedFeather]

Yes, it rules you out, BUT you could be a judge!