Green Bay Hacker
Journeyman Pro
Sorry if you find this petty but I have to get this off my chest.
Today was our rescheduled Welsh team handicap championships at Celtic Manor. On the original date I stayed there the night before with HID to make sure there was no rush. This time the tee times were a bit later and I was second out at 11.54. I normally like to get to our club about an hour before my tee time so I can warm up in the nets, practice putting and have a butty. It is a minimum three hour journey down to Celtic Manor so I was looking to get there at 10.30 at the latest. Two of the lads were going down at 7am and that was ideal but I was going down with the captain and he likes to leave things to the last minute - literally parking his car and teeing off 30 seconds later most weeks. He was also staying down there after the comp so I was going back with the other lads.
Anyway, captain agreed to pick me up at 7.30 and promised not to be late so all looked good. 7.30 came and went and at 7.40 I rang him but no reply. Text came back - 5 minutes! 10 minutes then passed, so he was 20 minutes late and I was getting wound up, so I made the decision to go on my own and told him in a text. Apparently he turned up 5 minutes after I left and he got ahead of me when I was filling up so he arrived there before me.
Most of my work involves appointments and time keeping so I cannot understand people who say they will be there at a certain time with no intention of keeping to it.
I felt much happier having driven there and back but I doubt that the captain will improve his time keeping.
Would anyone else have gone on their own or was I just being impatient?
Today was our rescheduled Welsh team handicap championships at Celtic Manor. On the original date I stayed there the night before with HID to make sure there was no rush. This time the tee times were a bit later and I was second out at 11.54. I normally like to get to our club about an hour before my tee time so I can warm up in the nets, practice putting and have a butty. It is a minimum three hour journey down to Celtic Manor so I was looking to get there at 10.30 at the latest. Two of the lads were going down at 7am and that was ideal but I was going down with the captain and he likes to leave things to the last minute - literally parking his car and teeing off 30 seconds later most weeks. He was also staying down there after the comp so I was going back with the other lads.
Anyway, captain agreed to pick me up at 7.30 and promised not to be late so all looked good. 7.30 came and went and at 7.40 I rang him but no reply. Text came back - 5 minutes! 10 minutes then passed, so he was 20 minutes late and I was getting wound up, so I made the decision to go on my own and told him in a text. Apparently he turned up 5 minutes after I left and he got ahead of me when I was filling up so he arrived there before me.
Most of my work involves appointments and time keeping so I cannot understand people who say they will be there at a certain time with no intention of keeping to it.
I felt much happier having driven there and back but I doubt that the captain will improve his time keeping.
Would anyone else have gone on their own or was I just being impatient?