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The Golf Cart CHRONICLES BY: SUZY JAMES - WWW.ITSNEVER2LATEBOOKS.COM This Is A Story taken from The Golf Cart Chronicles - A Compilation Of Funny Golf Cart/Golfing Related Short Stories HELP! TWO BIG TURKEYS Just Drove Off In My Golf Cart. SUZY JAMES, Author T here I was a mid- dle-aged man named Raymond, in the garage getting ready to head out to the nearby course for a round of golf. With a few minutes to spare I loaded my four-wheel golf car (parked in the driveway) with golfing parapherna- lia and some snacks. Our rural home was across the street from George (my golfing buddy) and his wife Jessica (my sis- ter) and their four kids. Both of our homes were alike in so much as the same builder used yellow brick facing to save on material costs. We are partners in a large ac- counting firm and golfing is our favorite pastime when not busy expanding the business. Anyway, enough chatting, let’s get back to me waiting for 40 George to cross the street and get going to the golf course. I heard some screaming and yell- ing; looked out from inside my ga- rage and saw George racing across the street towards my house. He was highly excited and seemed confused and impossible to under- stand. I asked if he was okay and tried to make sense of whatever it was that got him so riled up. He wanted to know where the two big oversized turkeys came from. I figured he was talking about the two heavy-set 30-pound turkeys thawing in our refrigerator and wondered why this would cause him to fret so needlessly. He knew where they came from. You see George a worrywart, and Jessica went shopping with me and my wife Florence to buy two premium frozen turkeys large enough to feed all of us and the six kids at our joint Thanksgiving dinner on the 28th, two days from today. The idea was for both of our families to have enough saved tur- WWW.GOLFCAROPTIONS.COM key to make into a few new dishes or mouth-watering turkey sand- wiches from the leftovers. So, I tell paranoid George not to worry because both of our turkeys are safe and sound. To put his mind at ease, we leave the garage through the back door and head for the kitchen. Lo and behold there they were in the fridge; two big fat, dead, and partially thawed turkeys waiting patiently to be stuffed and roasted for all of us to devour on Thanksgiving Day, 2019. Right then George let me know with forced certainty that those turkeys were not what he was talking about. Well, I’ll be damned, come to find out George was not asking about our two fat turkeys. He was asking about the two really big human size turkeys he spotted hiding be- hind a bush growing in front of his fake wishing well. He believed that something was very suspicious about two humans dressed as tur- keys struggling to hide from view.