March 14, 2008 - Friday Funny - John Daly

This week’s Friday Funny happened when I was on vacation last week in Clearwater FL.

I was in Clearwater to watch my son play in a college Baseball Tournament. A friend, Jim, flew in to town on the second to last day of my trip.

I told him since he only had one full day in the area, he had to choose what he wanted to do and to see.

Two world-renown organizations are based in Clearwater: The Church of Scientology and Hooters.

Decisions, Decisions. With limited time, he had to decide what to do first.

It turns out Jim is a history buff, because he knew that this was the 25th anniversary of the opening of the first Hooters. He considered it sort of a “Trip to Mecca” to see the actual, original Hooters. I had previously blogged about this anniversary.

While already in a state of euphoria, Jim was further delighted to learn that his role model, John Daly (above, right) was in town. And not only was he in town, he was appearing at this Hooters.

And not only was he appearing, but apparently John Daly was staying at the newly established, Hooter’s Motel. It seems Mr. Daly had decided to park his RV in the Hooter’s parking lot for the week. John Daly has all the right personality attributes: Budget Consciousness, Desire to Fit In, and a Detailed Focus on Personal Diet and Exercise (again, picture above, right.).

Daly's RV even has vanity plates to commemorate his 1991 PGA Championship victory that propelled him onto the national stage.

Now I’m no PGA fan, but I did read that John Daly got into the trouble last week that you only hear about in a country music song.

Within 5 days:

- Daly failed to make the cut in the golf tournament near Clearwater.

- Daly’s golf coach fired him the next Tuesday. I don’t know how someone YOU PAY, fires you, but he did.

- Daly missed the pro-am the following day causing his disqualification from this week’s tournament in Orlando.

For our part, we had lunch, paid our bill, and set off to find the home office of the Church of Scientology. We were trying to find out if Tom Cruise had parked his RV in their parking lot.

Decisions, Decisions.

I'm sorry SMART DECISIONS, SMART DECISIONS.