Putters birdies and cocks

good mitten and badmitten

Sports are strange.

What kind of racket involves beating cocks?

Sure, it’s fun and games but doesn’t ‘badmitten’ hurt?

If it didn’t, would they call it goodmitten?

The roosters were astronauts with NASA in the 80’s and 90’s.

Back then, they were shuttle cocks.

Now they’ve been demoted. These days they’re merely ‘birdies’.

They need better socials.

Birdies are not struck in golf.

Birdies are beloved.

If you’re good with a ‘putter’ you might score a ‘birdie’.

The use of the word ‘birdie’ is an indication that golfers have the ability to be polite.

When someone scores a birdie, they might be getting ahead of you. They are better than what is prescribed.

And if I were keeping score and the person I was playing with was consistently scoring on better than the rest of us?

I likely wouldn’t applaud the great work he was doing by kicking my ass both in gross and net score. I’d want to burn his house down.

But golfers are polite. They don’t burn each others houses down.

I’d find a way though.

As I scr…