The Shide
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For those of you who have not yet experienced a bad handoff, kudos to you. You are the exception, not the rule.
Speaking from my experience, I have lost more discs than most folks will likely ever own. Sad, but true. There are typically 3 different scenarios in which it is possible for me to lose a disc. One: bad ricochet and I am unable to see which direction the disc flew. Happens a lot. Two: I've thrown multiple practice shots & forget to pick one (or more) up. Three: I set a disc on top of my cart, unsecured in any way shape or form, and it simply falls off without me noticing. Yes, it happens. On instances #1 & #3, I will spend up to 5 minutes looking. After that, I usually just don't have the time to keep hunting because very often I am on the time clock and need to get back on the road. This usually isn't a huge issue to me because I generally have a back up to my back up to my back up. (Yes, I buy a lot of plastic, it's a habit, where's the thread for that?). And in those cases of leaving behind a disc, probably in the neighborhood of 200+ discs, I can count on my two hands the number of times I've gotten back a wayward disc.
Then there have been the times I've found other's discs and tried to return their property back to them. Not always a happy ending.
These days, when I find a disc, I first check to make sure it's not just a WAY off course throw from an adjoining hole, it not, then pick it up to see if it is inked. If not, drop it like a hot potato. If it has ink, text with a pick of the disc, and the place where I am stashing it. Easy peasy. Unless, of course, it's a land line phone # (true story).
Speaking from my experience, I have lost more discs than most folks will likely ever own. Sad, but true. There are typically 3 different scenarios in which it is possible for me to lose a disc. One: bad ricochet and I am unable to see which direction the disc flew. Happens a lot. Two: I've thrown multiple practice shots & forget to pick one (or more) up. Three: I set a disc on top of my cart, unsecured in any way shape or form, and it simply falls off without me noticing. Yes, it happens. On instances #1 & #3, I will spend up to 5 minutes looking. After that, I usually just don't have the time to keep hunting because very often I am on the time clock and need to get back on the road. This usually isn't a huge issue to me because I generally have a back up to my back up to my back up. (Yes, I buy a lot of plastic, it's a habit, where's the thread for that?). And in those cases of leaving behind a disc, probably in the neighborhood of 200+ discs, I can count on my two hands the number of times I've gotten back a wayward disc.
Then there have been the times I've found other's discs and tried to return their property back to them. Not always a happy ending.
These days, when I find a disc, I first check to make sure it's not just a WAY off course throw from an adjoining hole, it not, then pick it up to see if it is inked. If not, drop it like a hot potato. If it has ink, text with a pick of the disc, and the place where I am stashing it. Easy peasy. Unless, of course, it's a land line phone # (true story).
) they had found of mine. I bounced it off a tree on hole 3 and into a river in June of 2020. He found it late last year in the river off of hole 9 he thinks, not really near hole 3 (at least a quarter mile, maybe more down stream). I pm'd him through FB to let him know that I really wanted that disc back. Made arrangements to meet (I said I was off work today and would meet him anywhere in SE WI) today, when he handed the 1991 Sanny back to me I said I had something for him. He said he didn't want anything. but that wouldn't fly with me. It was a 1991 Sanny after all. I gave him a Champ Glow Gator with the Glide (awesome DG store in Madison) logo and a $25 Gift Card for Glide as well. He was like that's way to much and I said it may not be enough, it was after all a 1991 Sanny...He said he had been trying to track me down for quite sometime, even he knew that it was a well loved disc. That kind of effort needs to be appreciated and rewarded. I can't vouch for his amount of effort, but I drove a total (and played 27 holes of DG) of 184 miles for that 1991 Sanny!
