Balls! This is Why I Shouldn't Let My Mind Wander.

Sometimes Katie and I have chats while at work.  Here's some of what we discussed today...    me: i want to golfing

  like grown up golfing

  no, i don't know how to golf off the putt-putt course

  but

  i want to yell "BALLS" instead of "FORE"

  fore doesn't make any sense

  people will be on the lookout if you yell balls

  jus sayin

 Katie: hahaha

awesome

  we should do it

  but only if we really dress up (in tams--Scottish hats)

 me: i was thinking about that last night

  and then i realize that this is why i shouldn't let my mind wander too much

  done and done

  i'll have to ask my brother if i can borrow his clubs lol

"Fore" is another word for "ahead" (think of a ship's fore and aft). Yelling "fore" is simply a shorter way to yell "watch out ahead" (or "watch out before"). It allows golfers to be forewarned, in other words. (From about.com or something...)

  I think balls would be just as, if not more, effective

 Katie: i would duck out of the way of balls

also, isn't it usually that fore is ahead and when people yell fore it is for the people ahead of them so they would look behind them?

  so shouldn't they yell Aft?

 me: hmmm

 Katie: balls is better

  by far

 me: maybe "aft" doesn't carry well over a distance?

 Katie: maybe

  i love how gold is the lazy and out of shape person's sport

 me: i know!

 Katie: more outdoorsy than bowling, but in bowling you don't get a cart

 me: you don't even have to walk if you don't feel like it

 Katie: or people to carry your stuff around for you

  i know!

 it's brilliant!

 me: bowling balls are kinda heavy though

  and you have to to that whippy thing with your leg

  you could pull something

  thank you, Scotland I think they'd yell "Bollocks" in Scotland, though

Seriously, though.  It's for *safety*.  Who's not gonna look around when you yell "BALLS!!".