After a particularly poor game of golf, a popular club member
skipped the
clubhouse and started to go home. As he was walking to the parking
lot to
get his car, a policeman stopped him and asked, "Did you tee
off on the
sixteenth hole about twenty minutes ago?"
"Yes," the golfer responded.
"Did you happen to hook your ball so that it went over the
trees and off the
course?"
"Yes, I did. How did you know?" he asked.
"Well," said the policeman very seriously, "Your ball
flew out onto the
highway and crashed through a driver's windshield. The car went out
of
control, crashing into five other cars and a fire truck. The fire
truck
couldn't make it to the fire, and the building burned down. So, what
are you
going to do about it?"
The golfer thought it over carefully and responded... "I think
I'll close my
stance a little bit, tighten my grip and lower my right thumb."