Now that we’ve given thanks, our attention has turned to the next big event – Black Friday. Not for nothing but, what a dismal name to unofficially kick off the holiday shopping season. I mean it sounds like a cursed day. No? I’m sure there are a ton of people out there shopping right now that think so.
Black Friday means more than watching two people fight over the last half priced Gucci scarf. Although it is quite entertaining, just like watching those midnight shoppers come out of the store at day break looking like extras from “Dawn Of The Dead”. There is more to this day than just shopping, for me at least. It marks the end of my golf season here in the northeast.
I vote that this day be celebrated. We celebrate “ends” for other things i.e. Thanksgiving. Whereas if you didn’t know, celebrates the harvest which is the end of the growing season. We celebrate retirement, the end of our working days (for the most part). We also celebrate New Years. Sure you can say that it is a celebration for the new year but we celebrate it on the last day. The end of the year. The New Years anthem, Auld Lang Syne, is written in past tense and doesn’t really mention what’s to come rather what has happened.
Golf courses should follow in the Black Friday tradition and offer great deals. Oh I don’t know, greens fees half off maybe? Buy a round get one free perhaps…which is pretty much the same as half off. But you get the idea, right? There could be a closing ceremony in the 19th hole with ridiculous drink and food specials. A crazy band playing, people dancing on the bar, a few nut bags streaking on the 18th green. Oh man, it’s gonna be great! Weather permitting of course. Who’s with me?
Hit’em long…yell FORE!!!