How to convince my parents..

[Koth]

Basically, ride your bike there. That's the best advice you're going to get from this thread or from anyone else.

[Colinb913]

I got there. Just had to take my little brother for 9. ;) Thanks for the feedback guys, with the exception of a few..

Oh BTW, a certain someone, made the first to be on my ignore list. ;) Haha.

[Wet Doggg]

That was a funny read. I am on spoiledrotton's side here. You mom gets out of bed at 9 - 9:30 . Plus you are 19 and you come on a message board because your mommy won't give you a ride to someplace you could easily just walk to. Come on bud...man up.

[weavej2]

Ok, basically I currently don't have access to my car. Usually I will get up around 7:0-8:30 in the AM to go play 18. My dilemma right now is my mom (my dad is out of town with my car) wont give me a ride up to the course that early, as it's summer time, and no one but me wants to wake up so early.

Tell her you will sit at the computer and watch porn unless she takes you to the course.

[Joeyvee]

Tell them youre going to do drugs instead

[2bGood]

That was a funny read. I am on spoiledrotton's side here. You mom gets out of bed at 9 - 9:30

Yes kind of funny. I am nearly 40 and often get up at 5:30 or and 6 and run the 3miles to my club. I have a locker, club storage etc, so it is easy for me, but 3 miles is nothing.

[injury]

That was a funny read. I am on spoiledrotton's side here. You mom gets out of bed at 9 - 9:30

The more I thought about it the more I agree at least about the kid, his mother's wake up time isn't any of my concern. What kind of "taking care of" does a 19 year old need. I had been in the Air Force 2 years by then. My wife had been married to me 2 years when she turned 19. Barring some disability for the lad, this stuns me about as much as including 26 year olds as a child dependent on their parents health insurance.

[Easy]

Ok if this lad hasn't thought of any ideas to get to the golf course yet, life is gonna have a grand time kicking you in the balls.

Get some hustle.

[Bullitt5339]

The more I thought about it the more I agree at least about the kid, his mother's wake up time isn't any of my concern. What kind of "taking care of" does a 19 year old need. I had been in the Air Force 2 years by then. My wife had been married to me 2 years when she turned 19. Barring some disability for the lad, this stuns me about as much as including 26 year olds as a child dependent on their parents health insurance.

I was king of laughing until I read this post, and it put it in perspective for me. At 19 years old, I had been in the Army almost 2 years, and had already deployed to my 1st conflict, and was out dodging landmines in Bosnia. It kind of puts it in perspective after you look at it that way.

Join a service and get out of the house as quick as you can!!!!!! You have no idea how worthless you'll become living in mommy and daddy's house as a young man. I left early, my sister stayed for a few years, and she's almost worthless. At 35 years old, she still relies on my parents to do anything for her, even though she's married and has 2 kids.

[MOOCH]

Everybody keeps saying hes 19 but his profile age is 16. There is a big difference in those ages.

[iacas]

Everybody keeps saying hes 19 but his profile age is 16. There is a big difference in those ages.

Yes, he PMed me and told me his birthday was September 1993 and that he put 1990 when he signed up. Then he told me he's actually 17 and not 19... and I asked him why he doesn't know how old he was because he's not 17 if he was born in September 1993. He said "oops, I tell people 17 because I'm almost 17, I'm actually 16."

The whole thing seems fishy, but long story short his profile did say 19 but now says 16 because I changed it at his (odd) request.

[2bGood]

I find it very concerning that we people lying about their age here, next thing you know people will start lying about their handicap or driving distance.

[jamo]

Almost 17 gets you nowhere. 17 however is aweso...... pretty much the same as 16.

[Brad_MB]

What assuptions did I make that the OP didn't spell out? He gets up 8:30 or maybe a little earlier. No one else

Wow...

And as far as getting to the course, I would just take a cab. There's no shame in that and it should be cheap considering how close you live to it.

[gators13]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but he never said that he wouldn't walk, run, ride a bike, take a bus or a cab to the course, he was just asking a what would you do question, then everyone blasted him by talking about how it used to be back in the day. I agree to some of spoiledrotten's points, i agree that people are lazy and always want something for nothing. I wouldn't have said that to this kid because i don't even know him, but hey to each his own

[brgolf]

Sounds like you have a lazy family, mainly you. Get on your bike and ride your lazy butt to the course if it means that much to you. And you mother staying in bed all morning. Good grief! Not saying what you want to hear, but then, I don't cater to everyone in that way. I respond to your questions/comments with an honest and sincere manner. Yes, I had a job mowing grass (4 yards) at 9 years old, and by the time I was in the 10th grade, I was working 7 hours a day after school. Not for the support of the family like in the real old days, but because I liked having my own money and being able to buy my own things. I could have done like you and slept late every day, gotten up and started complaining about how the world is against me since I might have to ride my bike a few miles to do something that I'm passionate about, but I had better ethics than that.

You have managed to contruct a scenario based on assumptions which may be completely untrue! Even a 16 year old is bright enough to know that isn't the foundation for good advice.

[SpoiledRotten]

You have managed to contruct a scenario

If you say so, but he wasn't a 16 year old a week ago. He wanted everyone to think he was 19, which made him even that much more irresponsible. People didn't even believe that his dad gave him an 08 STS at 19 years old, so you know he didn't give his 16 year old that car. I'm not a betting man, but I'd almost bet the kid doesn't even have a driver's license. He started off with lies and it went downhill from there. So you can trust anything that guy says and take up for him all you want. Maybe he should have been taught responsibility. Then he wouldn't have even had to ask the question in the OP. He'd have just gotten to the golf course and played his game.

If anything was based off of assumptions that weren't true, there's no one to blame but the OP. He tried to deceive everyone from the very beginning. That is just what this kid needs... more pity strokes from some of you. The kid will never grow up if all he gets is an outpouring of pitiful excuses for everything he does.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but he never said that he wouldn't walk, run, ride a bike, take a bus or a cab to the course, he was just asking a what would you do question, then everyone blasted him by talking about how it used to be back in the day. I agree to some of spoiledrotten's points, i agree that people are lazy and always want something for nothing.

Ok, basically I currently don't have access to my car.

He never said that he wouldn't walk, run, etc., but then, that wasn't in his mind to even consider. It was all about the car.

I wouldn't have said that to this kid because i don't even know him,

He didn't know us either and still asked a whole earth full of people for their advice.

That makes it about even. If I want advice about my personal life, it will be an intimate conversation with someone I'm near and dear to, not thousands of strangers on the WWW. BTW.... I asked someone on the Bay Point driving range a couple of weeks ago, if they had a user name of "Gators13" on TheSandTrap. They just snickered and said no. Oh well, I tried.

[trog2233]

Yes, he PMed me and told me his birthday was September 1993 and that he put 1990 when he signed up. Then he told me he's actually 17 and not 19... and I asked him why he doesn't know how old he was because he's not 17 if he was born in September 1993. He said "oops, I tell people 17 because I'm almost 17, I'm actually 16."

hahahaha I'm pretty good. I said earlier in the thread that he sounded 14 rather than 19. I was close. Lies lies lies...gets you real far on the internet.