Corey’s “Free Ride” Blog: I’m Retiring…

We are officially at the halfway point of the Free Ride contest!  Forty 103-minute Jeep stops down, forty to go!  Still plenty of time to start trying to qualify!

11am – 12:43pm: Fountain Tire (1345 Industrial Road, West Kelowna)
“Wait, Corey, you must have made a typo… you were at Fountain Tire yesterday at 11am.”
(I take a chair, spin it around backward and sit down, like a cool counsellor)
“You see, Billy, sometimes businesses have special events that they want advertised on the radio.  They pay the radio station to have me on location with the Jeep, in an effort to call attention to their special event.”
“But what does that have to do with your typo?”
(I chuckle)
“Ohhh Billy… it’s not a typo!  Fountain Tire wanted me here two days in a row!  They are having a big BBQ this Saturday (July 6), and August Luxury Motorcars are going to be on hand with a Show n’ Shine!”
“Wow! That sounds like fun! Will they be raffling off a set of four tires as well?”
“STOP READING MY SCRIPT, BILLY!”
Aaaaaaand scene.

So, there’s that.  It started raining again (weather, right??), so they let me move inside of the shop bays.  I spotted a barbecue and asked if they were going to use it on Saturday; no way, Jason said.  They’re getting one of those big time tailgating grills!
It’s going to be a great Q!

3 – 4:43pm: Orchard Greens Golf Club (2777 K.L.O. Road)
We were sopped with the kind of rain that is just heavier than a drizzle, but lighter than standard rainfall. It’s that in-between precipitation, the kind that keeps you hopeful it will taper off; the kind that is just wet enough to make you uncomfortable without rainwear; the kind that makes free sliders and wine & cider tastings totally inviting!
Once again, Orchard Greens sampled their menu to Jeep contest-goers, and challenged them to a putting contest!  Sink one and you win a 2-for-1 round of golf coupon; sink two and you win a free user membership!  And congratulations to Peter, who walked up and drained his first two putts!
Inside the starter’s hut, there is a plaque for the Hole-in-One Club.  I told Dave the Pro Shop Manager that they day I hit a hole-in-one will be the last day I golf.  There’s no sense in me continuing to torture myself; why not go out on a high!