Random Pairing Story Contest: Trust Me, I'm a Doctor

Man, this one was so close to being the winner. Today on the site we have a tie for 2nd place, and both take place at Disney, because where else would a great random pairing happen? This story is from Joe Mayberry, who had a random pairing offer his medical services to Joe’s playing partner. Check out this hilarious story below!

Spring break trip with one of my coworkers, and we were playing the Disney resort courses in Orlando. On the first tee we meet our partners for they day and we immediately hit it off. They were BAD at golf and totally admitted it, but they played super fast and laughed and had a great time.

As we go along, the guy says to my playing partner, “What’s wrong with your neck? I’m a chiropractor and can tell you can’t turn your head to the left.” My playing partner was a former professional athlete and HATES the thought of a chiropractor. He brushed it off and said he slept wrong, but the truth was he had been complaining for three days about his neck and how bad it hurts.

We play on and the Doc says, “Let me adjust you, let me fix your neck, let me look,” and was very persistent. Now, we have no clue if this guy was a doctor, but he talked a good game. Finally my partner gives in and says, “F-it, if he kills me, he kills me.”

So the doctor puts my partner on the front of the cart and crawls through the window above the steering wheel and tells Jim (my partner) to relax, it’ll be fine.

As Jim begins talking the Doctor cranks on his neck and you could hear three absurdly loud pops and Jim let out the biggest groan/sigh I’ve ever heard. He sat there stunned and the doctor just starts laughing hysterically and asks him to move his neck.

It’s instantly better, and the doctor tells him to take some aspirin and a beer and he will be fine. Jim got in the cart and punched me in the arm and asked why I let him do it and what the hell was I thinking letting him almost get killed!

The rest of the round was great and we stayed in contact for a couple more months, but then the couple broke up and the rest is history. Jim and I still laugh about that to this day… and he still won’t go back to the chiropractor.