Making It Easier for Drunk, Fat Guys on the Course

Here's a video intro to something called "scan4beer":



scan4beer is a new business that is launching nationwide in February. Its goal: Make it easier for golfers to get beverages and snacks on the golf course by allowing golfers to summon the beer cart.

No more waiting patiently (or impatiently) for the beer cart to come back around; no more waiting until the turn to pick up your next brewski. No sirree: You want beer and you want it now.

With scan4beer, you swipe your cellphone over a barcode made available by the golf course on items such as ballwashers or inside of golf carts, and the cart girl receives your request to pay a visit. So she drives to your location to serve you.

That sounds kind of cool. And it also sounds like yet another way for golfers to get fat and lazy. And drunk. I'm only half-kidding. Many (perhaps most) golfers who use this service won't be buying beer, but will be buying water, a Coke, a Snickers bar, a bag of chips, a sandwich.

But are we really that lazy, that needy, that we can't wait for the beer girl to make her rounds, or even wait until the turn? Do we really need to demand food and drink right now, in the middle of a golf game?

Why not expand this throughout society? Hey, I'm at the grocery store, and looking at the food on the shelves is making me hungry. Cart girl, drive your vehicle to Aisle 3, please, and feed me! Or I'm in a business meeting and man, all those charts and graphs are boring. Beer girl, get your cute little booty in here and beer me!

Speaking of cute booties: One potential problem with scan4beer lies in ill-behaved drunk golfers misusing the service just to flirt with (or harrass) the cart girl.

Here's something I've always wondered about: Do they have beer carts or "cart girls" outside of the USA? I believe golf carts in general - the riding kind - are much-less used outside the U.S., so I assume beer carts are less common, as well. Comments?