You Got Power (?)

Editor’s Note:  This is the first guest blog, brought to you by “Fives Timmy”

Hurricane Sandy arrived in Rhode Island in late October 2012 rendering Aquidneck Island with no electrical power for a few days and no golf for anyone while courses recovered.

A week after the hurricane, I found myself at the driving range on a gorgeous Saturday morning, not a cloud in sight. As I practiced at the driving range at Green Valley Golf Course, I found myself to be alone on the range when all of a sudden another patron came along to hit some shags.  As the newcomer stretched he started to make small talk with me about the weather, the dialogue went like this:

New Player X:  “Boy, this weather is a lot different than last week when the Hurricane hit us, eh”

Me: (while practicing my driver tee shots):  “Yes, this is perfect for golf”

New Player X: “It sure is”

Just then I hit a massive drive straight down the middle of the practice range just as a new comment from the other man came as follows:

New Player X: “You have power”

Me: “Well I smacked that one great, but recently I have been spraying them all over the place”

With a look of total aghast the next comment was by the new comer:

New Player X: “I mean do you have power at your house” (his facial expression was priceless)

Me: (after a slight delay due to me thinking he was talking about my prowess with the #1 Wood and not the Hurricane damage)……..“Yes, I only lost it for about 36 hours”

Nothing more was said by either hacker….to this day, as many times as I have told that story and laughed, I believe the New Player X has probably told it more and laughed harder!!