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Subject: How Many of You Belong to a Country Club or Will Join One ?
I am the anti country club type. I receive invitations from women who invite me to their club, where they have the The Shermie ( a beloved member) annual swatathon. I feel like Nick Caraway at a Gatsby party.

I have one friend who lives in the high desert , a very remote place with cheap real estate. He joined the local country club. I couldn't even believe one existed there. The greens are not exactly green and the restaurant looks more like a Tommy's burger and is rated, "B," for be careful by the Health Dept.

This is a friend who occasionally will go off the wagon and epic disasters happen. His last time he got his car stuck on a railroad track and he got out of the car and sat down on a hillside and finished off his bottle and watched a train crash into his car.



Anyway I digress. Country clubs are cartoon breeding grounds for conservatives.

 

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People at country clubs are clean as opposed to people who are not at country clubs.

 

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Did it once for work back in the day. I didn't fit in, to say the least.

I don't think I made one contact there that I ever did any business with. Waste of money, but at least it wasn't mine.

 

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Ptilk posted:
I didn't fit in, to say the least.




Fatty back then, too?

 

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Subject: How Many of You Belong to a Country Club or Will Join One ?
There is a local country club that is really part of the Mariott golf resorts chain. If you're a member, golfing is much less expensive. Unfortunately, you'd have to golf A LOT to make up the cost in being a member and I don't golf that much. If I did golf that much though, I would certainly join the club. As it is, they let you play as a non-member too, you just don't get priority on tee times. Oh, membership in that club gives you reciprocity with all other Mariott courses as well.

A friend of mine used to be a member and we played at Seaview as part of the deal. He also played at Marco Island... so it's not such a bad gig if you golf a lot, at least with this one.

 

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I think Groucho had it right.

"I wouldn't belong to a club who'd have me as a member!"

"I outta join a club and beat you with it!"

 

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Ive never tried to find one and never noticed them. Seems kind of dumb to me - i wouldnt want to go to the same community center all the time.

 

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I was a bartender at a country club when I was 21. I observed many cartoon type characters backbite each other. I think Caddyshack is not too far off

Caddyshack

 

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Subject: How Many of You Belong to a Country Club or Will Join One ?
I probably should belong to one, for work and networking.

I don't.

I still get by fine. If that holds up another 8-10 years, then I won't need to be in one. And I won't want to be in one.


 

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The "social" and "professional/social" aspects of country clubs is a huge downer for me. Most of the people who are members of those sorts of organizations for social or social/professional reasons are exactly the kind of people that I dislike being around.

Now, if it became professionally necessary for me, like my company said, "you're going to be a member of the Elks club and here's your $10k fees", then I'd go and golf and do what I had to... but my career isn't that sort of career lol!

 

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I had a part time job in a country club back in the day myself. Bartender as well. It was a hilarious place to work. It was a tennis club, not golf.

Old dudes (to me back then, younger than I am now sadly) would sit in the "cafe" (yeah, we sold some food, but 95% of sales was booze) and get snockered while watching their young wives take lessons from the pro's. They would sit in there for hours, and by the time 5PM rolled around, they couldn't walk. Their wives would come in glowing and happy from hours of exercise (and probably a bit of extra from the pro's in the locker room) and have a glass of wine or mineral water and try to sober them up before they went home.

Had one woman who got in an argument with her much older husband, he told her to STFU, and she jumped up on a table, pulled up her tennis skirt and started pointing at her crotch screaming, "This is GOLD MF'er. I get anything I want, and you get this so don't tell me to shut up if you want to keep getting it". I'll never forget that. I always wanted to be him some day so I could reply, "I got 3 other gold ones and a couple of silver, sit down and shut up". tongue

 

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My first job was working in the pro shop at what passed for the best country club in the state. Even at 15 I thought it was way over-rated. I worked there until I left for Tulane and never saw anything close to a better quality of life. Those folks were insanely selfish, too. I found one member's wallet with $1800 in it and all his credit cards. He gave me $2. WTF?

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laugh Good stories itt.

 

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_Enkidu_ posted:
I think Groucho had it right.

"I wouldn't belong to a club who'd have me as a member!"

"I outta join a club and beat you with it!"


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There is a definite pecking order. I observed with an artistic eye how someone, who would never be admitted to the inner circle, pathetically tried and tried to hide his noveau riches and overcompensate. But, he just was not old money. I saw more pastel kitsch fashions than a basket full of Easter eggs. As a bartender, I had to remember all the for crap concotions the members individually designed for themselves. I was on the make for the women and sometimes I got lucky. It was a dangerous game to play, though.

 

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Oh you have no idea how much I like those guys, Reese. TCM had a Marx Brothers marathon not too long ago and my wife was couldn't get to move off the couch even after pointing out I'd already seen every movie a dozen times.

She ain't got no culture! cool

 

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Never was a member, but had friends who were, so I got to go in the summer.

 

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My wife's job comes with a country club membership. We got it in October. Last night was the first time we went. We had dinner. It was pretty good. And cheap. I had a steak for $12 and my wife had pasta for $10.

Neither of us golfs so it's fairly pointless. I think we'll start going for the food though.

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I belong to a CC that I caddied at as a boy.

I always hated the old doctors that would bring in their 60lb bag full of as many clubs as they could fit and then ask you to carry it for 18.

It was and is a great place to make friends and business acquaintances.

I have no problem with them or people joining them.

 

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