Random Story of the Day: Mini Golf Scalping

We had some free time on Sunday in Hastings, so a friend and I went and played mini golf along the beach. The place had signs for "Mini Golf" "Crazy Golf" and in big, fancy letters, "Adventure Golf." We were a little confused as to the difference between the three, but it turns out that Mini Golf (3 pounds) is exactly how it sounds: miniature golf. "Crazy Golf" (3 pounds 50 pence) adds a windmill and maybe a dogleg, and "Adventure Golf" (4 pounds 75 p) is what we would call Miniature Golf. Those crazy Brits...

Anyway at the end of the mini golf they usually have those stupid holes where if you make a difficult putt you get a free game. This hole was set up like those skeet ball games at Chuck E Cheese back in the day: you putt the ball up a ramp and it launches into a variety of holes. The furthest one away is a free game. Now I lined up and jokingly took a practice swing before stepping up like it was a putt to win the Masters. I hit it and it actually went in.

Now probably never going back to Hastings to play mini golf, but I proceeded to spend the next 10 minutes outside the place trying to scalp the ticket to any potential putters. Now scalping tickets is one thing, but targetting fun-loving families on vacation felt five times worse. Eventually I found a family that wanted to play, and I talked up Adventure Golf to the kid so that his mom could justify the illegal transaction. I would never trust someone like me, but for some reason they did and I ended up making three pounds back and spending only 50 pence on Crazy Golf.

After typing all that I realize that this story took a lot more explaining than I anticipated, so I apologize for wasting 3 minutes of your time, but hopefully you're procrastinating and could use the reading material anyway...