'The customer decides when they are...ready to leave': Friend group splits over golfing etiquette

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 14, 2023 3:00 PM EDT

Mini golfing is so superior to regular golf. In this essay I will…

I'm so serious: mini golf is clearly the better game. Regular golf requires one to have some golfing skills already, since you have to hit the ball many yards away. You walk around a course filled with grass, sand, maybe a few lakes or whatever. Nature? Wow, how interesting.

Mini golf on the other hand, requires no prior golfing skills. All you have to do is putt along the course, while enjoying windmills, rolling hills, and usually lots of themed decorations. The balls are colorful, people of all ages can join in, and the courses are full of fun decor that you don't get to see every day. This is the life, and I think it should be an official professional sport in the same way regular golfing is. 

Plus, have you ever been to a mini golf course that's UV or glow in the dark themed? That's a top-tier way to spend an afternoon. However, these folks below spent their time playing a type of regular golf — technically just practicing at a hitting bay. These friends disagreed over their own game of golf, and you can check out their story below. Then check out a fine selection of hand-picked memes. 

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    Font - r/AmItheA u/uhohstinkyhaha AITA for telling my friend that he's being entitled for being angry at a lady doing her job? Posted by
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    Font - Me (17M) and friends went to Top Golf this past weekend and we had a massive argument about what happened. We booked for 2 hours then did another 90 minutes after time was up. Once our 75 minutes passed the menu asked if we wanted to extend the time. We clicked no, and a few minutes later, the employee came by and i asked if we wanted to extend our time and we told her no. She swiped her card and typed in whatever and walked off.
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    Font - We had eaten earlier during our time and after 90 minutes passed we screwed around with the remaining golf balls we shot out. We did this for like 10-15 minutes, maybe, which to me was extra time and anything after the 90 was free lunch. After that the lady came back with a family who had reserved a bay and said that, in polite terms, time was up. I thought nothing of this and we left and the family got their bay.
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    Font - On the car ride home, a friend speaks up and says that lady was a total a and super rude for bringing the family over when we weren't done yet. I said "Who cares are time was up anyway it wasn't our bay anymore", he responded saying Top Golf is a restaurant primarily and Golf is only secondary and customers don't have to leave when their time is up, but when they decide they are done. Sometimes they might want to talk or finish their drinks. I said "We payed for the bay hourly and at a re
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    Font - We were sitting in a bay that wasn't ours at that point and they had every right to make us leave. He said if they are really taking that long they should ask them to leave and then wait a bit again before telling them they have to go. Whether it's 5 minutes or an hour, the customer decides when they are done and ready to leave. The place was packed on a Saturday too.
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    Font - I told him he's dead wrong n that's extremely entitled. He thinks I'm a stubborn a for taking the side of the lady just doing her job but now I'm curious is that how Top Golf actually operates? I feel like when you have a timer you don't get the freedom like a restaurant to stay however long. AITA?
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    Font - QuirkyFunUsername A Aficionado [12] NTA and i don't know ANYONE who describes Top Golf as a restaurant. Your friend is entitled and you're right.
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    Font - nursepenguin36. Partas pant [1] Not to mention cheap. He clearly wanted to keep playing without having to pay for it.
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    Font - MisterNoisewater. Plus they're already high school kids so I'm sure the server was put through the ringer by them already..they shouldn't have to be asked to leave they should just leave when the time is up.
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    Font - KronkLaSworda Supreme Court Just-a [... "Top Golf is a restaurant primarily and Golf is only secondary" First, please make sure your friend didn't get hit with a golf ball or suffer some other brain injury. This statement is laughably false. Their food is bar food at best. Applebee's quality. It gets the job done, but it's not the draw.
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    Font - You pay to use the bay for x amount of time and you leave when you're time is up, especially on a busy Saturday. If you're not done eating or drinking when your bay time is up, take the food and drink to one of the many tables around and GTF out of the way. ΝΤΑ
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    Font - uhohstinkyhaha OP. This is exactly what I said. I said "If you actually manage to only begin eating when time runs out we walked past a bunch of tables without bays" and he said it doesn't matter when there is a table right at the bay, my response was "But it's not our bay anymore" and the argument went back to square 1. This repeated a few times lol
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    Font - Mysterious_Megalodon Parta ipant [4] NTA, you are correct. Golf is definitely not secondary when you're literally sitting in a golf bay that people are waiting to use. Wait until he finds out that plenty of regular restaurants have time limits as well.
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    Font - Responsible-Spring49. Parta pant [1] NTA he is being entitled and wants time he didn't pay for if your time is up it's up
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    Font - StAlvis ESH after 90 minutes passed we screwed around with the remaining golf balls we shot out. We did this for like 10-15 minutes, maybe, which to me was extra time and anything after the 90 was free lunch. Leave when you're supposed to. If you're forcing someone to kick you out, you're TA.
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    Font - BEWAR Gullible-Pilot-3994. OF ARCA Parta: pant [2] What?! Of course you're NTA here. Does your friend not follow rules of other places either? I don't care what the primary purpose of a place is, there's rules and when your time is up, then it's time to leave. Your friend is delusional if he believes he can just hang out for however long he feels like, despite paying for only a specific amount of time.
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    Product - Churchie-Baby Certified Proctologist [20] NTA it has a timer for a reason
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    Font - sparrowhawk75 A ΝΤΑ Aficionado [17] You paid for time, and overstayed your time, so you were absolutely correct that the employee was allowed to ask you to vacate that area. It's not yours once your paid time is up. You handled this well and your friend is a jerk. The company is called Top Golf, not Top Restaurant That Also Offers Golf For Some Reason. People go there to golf.
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