17. Teed Off
I worked at a golf course during the summer as a lead instructor for golf camps. We had just hired two high school guys to help out. Each day, I usually went through a small teaching session and then let the students out on the course to play. So, I got through the lesson and sent groups out to different holes. I told them I would watch over holes 1–5, and the high school employees would watch over 6–9.
I gave them their own cart—a big mistake on my end—to navigate faster from hole to hole. Everything was going smoothly until about an hour later when one of the students came up to me and said there were dirt trails all over the number eight green. I took my cart over to inspect it, and sure enough, the new hires were doing burnouts and drifting on the green.
I was irate and wanted to go confront these kids and curse them out. I headed back down the fairway towards hole number seven to find these guys, and they were literally chasing a beaver around in their golf cart—a beaver on a course with literally no ponds and water traps. How this beaver got there, I have no idea, but what I do know is that these two got fired immediately after that. We decided not to hire any more high school kids after that fiasco.