An Easter Theory.
Not being Christian, the symbols and customs of Easter have always puzzled me. Bunnies and candy and eggs? What's it all about?
Surely, I don't know. But here's a theory I've come up with about where the custom of the Easter egg hunt comes from:
We know that golf is a really, really old pastime. Some estimates say that it dates back to about 40 a.d. when the Romans occupied Great Britain.
Now fast forward to last week. It's early Spring and I'm looking for lost golf balls in my yard. It occurred to me that these little white balls that get nestled in the tall grass and under leaves look an awful lot like eggs.
Could it be that in ancient times, crappy golfers convinced kids to help them look for golf balls in the Spring, and they would be rewarded for the efforts with candy?
Somewhere along the way golf balls got switched out for eggs, and just like that, a tradition was born.
It's just a theory.
Surely, I don't know. But here's a theory I've come up with about where the custom of the Easter egg hunt comes from:
We know that golf is a really, really old pastime. Some estimates say that it dates back to about 40 a.d. when the Romans occupied Great Britain.
Now fast forward to last week. It's early Spring and I'm looking for lost golf balls in my yard. It occurred to me that these little white balls that get nestled in the tall grass and under leaves look an awful lot like eggs.
Could it be that in ancient times, crappy golfers convinced kids to help them look for golf balls in the Spring, and they would be rewarded for the efforts with candy?
Somewhere along the way golf balls got switched out for eggs, and just like that, a tradition was born.
It's just a theory.
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