fine whine

I'm not sure how to find them nor even how to spot them, but I know that there's a whole group of people out there that starts their sentences with "Yes," "Yeah," and even "Yup," and then so on and so forth. These last couple days I've been trying to figure out what that means. I have three hypotheses:

• These people are optimists but insecure ones such that they need to start their statements with an affirmative interjection to stay on the top half of the glass
• These people don't know how to work transitions into speech and as such cannot easily change subjects, so they use "Yep" as a sort of sign-post for new topics.
• These people are carrying on or responding to conversations from before or entirely imagined.

Those latter two don't make me happy to consider so I'm going to ignore them, and merely hope that those afflicted are just trying to keep everything on the sunny side.

Yeah, and while we were playing mini golf yesterday we took longer to play the second round. There were a couple two-to-foursomes ahead of us that were a little slower with the sticks and balls concept. The couple right in front of us seemed to dally a lot longer than they needed to after each hole, and it wasn't for several that I noticed that the guy of the couple had only one arm. He was the scorekeeper, so after each hole he'd balance his club against his leg or something, grab the scorecard from his pocket, brace it against something, grab a pencil and record the scores. Then he'd put everything back in his pocket, grab his club and carry on. All the while his lady friend would stand around sipping on her biggie Pepsi and make (probably) lighthearted remarks. I'm not quite sure what to make of the two of them other than they were holding us up and that was somewhat of a nuisance, but it is always nice to see people having fun.

Today we also watched Out of time and did some bowling, and Jesus rose from the dead. Eventful day, no?