Flying Flash Drives

Just a block away from our cozy little house is one of the town’s newest recreational creations - an 18 hole disc golf course. The course was ready for action last summer actually but even as small of a town Brookings is (approx 30,000) it has taken some time for the news to get out (especially to families…news travels fast amongst the college “kiddies”).

I admit that at first all I could focus on was this “alien sport”, these unidentified flying objects, that seemed to be doing nothing but ruining a perfectly good, near perfectly clean (trash free) city park. After months and seasons of feeling like an outsider in a park that was dear to my heart and close enough to my home to be considered an extension of “my backyard”, I stumbled upon an abandoned “circular throwing thingymabobber”. That’s about what it seemed like to me anyway. I knew nothing about the “sport”. I didn’t know the lingo, the rules…and I surely didn’t have a clue as to why more and more people were invading my park all in the name of this disc golf stuff.

Well, I happened to find that “circular throwing thingymabobber” during my walk in the park. It was a bit rainy with no one on the course but my dog and me. And, as fate would have it, I found it within a few natural steps from the next hole. Yes. You guessed it. I stepped up to the “tee box”., threw my hips back in an ever-so-hippie style and gave that disc a thrill ride. Ok, so maybe the disc didn’t get as much exhilaration out of the whole “Houston, we have liftoff” experience as I did. From then on I was hooked. I finally understood why droves of otherwise oblivious (to the park) souls would venture from their normal routine to throw this disc at these metal bins! This was disc golf!!!

Since that time, I’ve made it a point to go out of my way to befriend what appear to the gurus of the course. I ask them what I’m sure are all the dumb questions in their opinion, but I’m guessing they at one time asked the very same ones when they were thirsty for knowledge and insight during their early days.

That’s why I encourage everyone to look at technology and custom flash drives in that same manner. For whatever reason (maybe you stumbled upon a custom flash drive at a tradeshow and want to learn how to put that same promotional tactic to work for your company),  realize that we’ve had many “throws” at this exponentially popular world of custom flash drives. And the wonderful part is we are 100% passionate about helping others thirsty for flash drive knowledge and insight! So ask away. Believe me, I’ve already asked all the dumb questions long ago!