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CE Pro 100 Summit: A Squirrel Urinated on my Golf Bag
I’ve been accused of being “squirrely” before, but this is getting ridiculous! The second annual CE Pro 100 Integrators Summit kicked off yesterday with a golf tournament at a Rancho Park in Los Angeles sponsored by Concierge Direct.
In all, 42 golfers “braved” crystal clear blue skies and 80-degree temperatures on the smaller par 3 golf course at Rancho. Other than the awesome weather, the most noticeable aspect of the course is that it is overrun by squirrels. I mean they were everywhere… a half dozen at least on every hole. And they were totally unaffected by humans.
As our group was putting out on one hole, I glanced over and saw that a squirrel had climbed onto my golf bag and was taking out the padded head cover for the putter that I had tucked into one of the side pockets. I ran over and shooed him away, only to discover that the vermin had peed all over the golf bag.
The only saving grace from the incident… it isn’t my golf bag. It’s my brother’s that I had borrowed for the day. Luckily, he does not read CE Pro.
Last year, SpeakerCraft’s Jeremy Burkhardt lost a money clip with $8,000 in it during the golf course, so while my luck was certainly not good, it could have been worse.
But as Rodney Dangerfield would have said, "I tell ya I get no respect."
By the way, the low gross individual was Jason Fischbeck of Automated Environments in Mesa, Ariz., who shot a remarkable -1 par. (A certain humble editor from CE Pro tied that score.)
In all, 42 golfers “braved” crystal clear blue skies and 80-degree temperatures on the smaller par 3 golf course at Rancho. Other than the awesome weather, the most noticeable aspect of the course is that it is overrun by squirrels. I mean they were everywhere… a half dozen at least on every hole. And they were totally unaffected by humans.
As our group was putting out on one hole, I glanced over and saw that a squirrel had climbed onto my golf bag and was taking out the padded head cover for the putter that I had tucked into one of the side pockets. I ran over and shooed him away, only to discover that the vermin had peed all over the golf bag.
The only saving grace from the incident… it isn’t my golf bag. It’s my brother’s that I had borrowed for the day. Luckily, he does not read CE Pro.
Last year, SpeakerCraft’s Jeremy Burkhardt lost a money clip with $8,000 in it during the golf course, so while my luck was certainly not good, it could have been worse.
But as Rodney Dangerfield would have said, "I tell ya I get no respect."
By the way, the low gross individual was Jason Fischbeck of Automated Environments in Mesa, Ariz., who shot a remarkable -1 par. (A certain humble editor from CE Pro tied that score.)
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About the Author
Jason Knott, Editor, CE Pro
Jason has covered low-voltage electronics as an editor since 1990. He joined EH Publishing in 2000, and before that served as publisher and editor of Security Sales, a leading magazine for the security industry. He served as chairman of the Security Industry Association’s Education Committee from 2000-2004 and sat on the board of that association from 1998-2002. He is also a former board member of the Alarm Industry Research and Educational Foundation. Jason graduated from the University of Southern California.
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