I can get used to this kind of 'work'

Yesterday was IBM Presidents Day Golf Tourney, for which I volunteered/was volunteered to help out. SUCH a fun day away from the office. The weather actually held up, we had some light drizzling but it was pretty gorgeous the rest of the day. The course is called Copper Creek, right by king side road and hwy 27. yeah thats okay, i didnt really recognize those streets either lol. its about a 5 minute drive from major mack/400. anyways, i gave myself ample time to get there in the morning, was sposed to show up around 10:30, so I left the house at 10. Perfect timing, got there a few minutes early.

We had a quick debrief, then they told us to grab lunch, oh jeez. all you can eat breakfast/lunch buffet. it was insane. so nice. so much good food. we were all very careful not to itis ourselves though. As we were finishing up, I was the last one at the table cuz I was watching my friends' stuff while she was using the bathroom, and who else but Thurman Thomas comes to sit down at my table. We chatted a bit, he's a pretty funny guy.

So the whole day was supposed to be an event that you could invite clients and customers out, sort of a 2nd quarter closing thank you. There were about 8 of us volunteers who were in charge of looking over a hole at which there was a specific contest. For example, on the first hole Matt Stajan was there signing hats and sticks, and you had a chance to win an autographed jersey. Carlo Colaiacovo was on another hole, as was Thurman Thomas and AJ Eathorne. So some volunteers were in charge of taking care of these athletes singing autographs at their holes, just making sure they had a good time. Others, like myself, were in charge of a hole on our own, with a contest to win prizes (trips, cars, memberships, etc).. Mine was a trip for two across Canada on via rail for a hole in one (par 3), and another shorter trip for the closest to the pin. So really they need us there to witness if anyone actually gets a hole in one, which no one did lol..

At any rate, it was a lot of fun just chatting to different teams as they came by the hole (32 teams of 4 in total).. LOTS of big names, presidents and ceos cfos cios vps of this and that my goodness. it was crazy. obviously none of them will remember my name, but thats okay, it was still a lot of fun. Mostly I'd tell them about the prizes, then tell them how the hole was playing that day, yardage, wind, etc. pretty fun. after each group left id repair divots, which a groundscrew guy asked if id done before cuz i 'looked like a natural' (WOW ME!). so if business fails theres a second option right there. golf course maintenance. haha.. of course there was free everything so every time the beer girls came around they'd offer us stuff (we werent sposed to have beer though) but it was a lot of fun.

some hilights out on the green?
- a guy asking me how far the distance was to the pin, I estimated a guess, then he pulled out his little GPS caddie and proved me wrong lol
- another guy taking like 3 mulligans cuz he kept on shanking em
- a guy taking a pee right behind the tee then taking his turn like nothing happened
- vp director at air canada swearing that he recognized me from somewhere, even after my constant denial
- driving golf carts all around the course
- a guy getting mad waiting for the beer girl lol
- lots of GREAT shots. also, lots of HORRIBLE shots :)

after we were all done I met back up with my friend, who was hanging around talking to Carlo and Matt, so I got them to sign a stick for me, also picked up an autogrpahed leafs hat. Carlo's a pretty funny guy, i told him hes the future of the Leafs, but I didnt say anything to Matt lol.. anyways Matt took off, so we were just chatting to Carlo for a bit, it was pretty funny cuz my friends from barrie so she knew ppl that they know, so they got her number and were like yeah lets hang out in barrie or if u come out to toronto. pretty jokes. And then Carlo wanted to get a beer with the two of us, and i was like yeah lets go, but then we weren't allowed to go back into the clubhouse cuz we were just sposed to grab food from the club shack outside instead. so that was too bad, as we had to turn him down.

Anyways, grabbed a hot dog and stella at the club shack, (man it was crazy everything and anything you wanted was free) chatted a bit with the other volunteers before they hit the links to get some holes in before the sun came down. I learned something pretty jokes, you know how in basketball everyone shoots for teams, and if u airball it you arent allowed to play that game? well in golf, if you're a guy and you fail to hit it past the ladies tee, you have to whip it out for the rest of the hole. (lol smo) haha i thought that was pretty funny, cuz one guy didnt know how to play and after that he didnt want to play lol :) anyways i couldnt stick around so i took off for the (seemingly shorter) drive home; all in all a really fun day out. cheers!