Gamecock
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I want to be better prepared next time...
I was playing a round on a local course this past weekend and saw a couple guys go wading into a swampy pond to retrieve their discs (in a group of 5 guys, 3 tee shots went in the water). They walked around in mud with bare feet in a pond that alligators have been observed in and pulled out 27 discs in about 20 minutes!
Several of them were new players and I told them that calling up people to tell them you've found their discs was "the right thing to do". One younger guy made a comment he didn't understand why. I tried to make my point in a humorous way, saying "Call it Disc Golf Karma. If you don't do it, you will lose more discs than you find. If you do, you might find more discs than you lose."
One of those 27 discs was an old Aviar of mine I'd forgotten I threw in there!
I had already mentioned I'd put several discs in that pond, but same dude was skeptical it was mine until I showed him all the other discs in my bag had that same name and phone number on them.
I also told them how I called a guy out of state and he said "Just keep it Man, but thanks so much for calling me". I thought I did well explaining why that's best. But... When the same young guy said "Well, I don't believe in Karma. Why should we call these guys to return their discs, when we went to all the trouble (+ risk) to retrieve them?" I just couldn't come up with enough good reasons to convince him. I thought I had or could, but no go.
What would YOU have told this kid?
I want to have some more good/better reasons in case it ever happens again!
Thanks in advance!
I was playing a round on a local course this past weekend and saw a couple guys go wading into a swampy pond to retrieve their discs (in a group of 5 guys, 3 tee shots went in the water). They walked around in mud with bare feet in a pond that alligators have been observed in and pulled out 27 discs in about 20 minutes!
Several of them were new players and I told them that calling up people to tell them you've found their discs was "the right thing to do". One younger guy made a comment he didn't understand why. I tried to make my point in a humorous way, saying "Call it Disc Golf Karma. If you don't do it, you will lose more discs than you find. If you do, you might find more discs than you lose."
One of those 27 discs was an old Aviar of mine I'd forgotten I threw in there!
I had already mentioned I'd put several discs in that pond, but same dude was skeptical it was mine until I showed him all the other discs in my bag had that same name and phone number on them.
I also told them how I called a guy out of state and he said "Just keep it Man, but thanks so much for calling me". I thought I did well explaining why that's best. But... When the same young guy said "Well, I don't believe in Karma. Why should we call these guys to return their discs, when we went to all the trouble (+ risk) to retrieve them?" I just couldn't come up with enough good reasons to convince him. I thought I had or could, but no go.
What would YOU have told this kid?
I want to have some more good/better reasons in case it ever happens again!
Thanks in advance!