In my dream, I am looking to schedule a "Tee Time" to play golf at a local course -- something like 5 or 10 miles away. I have played for some considerable time, but haven't played recently.
I phone the local course and ask for a tee time later that day. I am informed that they wouldn't schedule a single player that day, but only groups of 3 or 4. I explain how important it is for me to play today (I don't remember the reason...) but please, please let me play today! The person I'm speaking to finally relents, but I have to be at the course in a very short time. (I also don't recall exactly how quickly I need to be there, but it's less than an hour or so...)
I my dream, my only transportation is a child's tricycle. I wasn't expecting this development, but I have to go with what's available. It's too small for me to sit on and pedal, so I must stand at the back platform and push my way forward by push-kicking the tricycle. (I realize after I wake up that I don't have any golf clubs with me. I might have placed them in a car or truck or bus, but none of them is available. So I guess I expected to borrow clubs from the course.)
I head out on the road -- traffic is never a problem in my dream -- and come across a small side road. I'm pretty sure that this smaller road is a "short cut" to get to the course, so I turn onto the smaller road and head off.
Shortly after this decision, I realize I don't recognize anything around me, so I must have been mistaken. But I'm far enough along this smaller road that it makes no sense to double back, so I keep on going.
On two separate occasions in the dream, I stop at old-fashioned gas stations and ask for directions. On both occasions, the attendants are really trying to help, but no one on either occasion knows which golf course I might be aiming at. There seem to be several of them not far away.
On one occasion, the attendant gets out a map with hopes that I could orient myself with the information on the map. The map shows three or four golf courses -- all of which are not that far away, but going towards any one of them takes me farther away from any of the others. And I have forgotten the name of the course.
I realize that I will never get to any of those courses in the time that was allotted during my phone call. There is a phone available in the gas station that I am invited to use to get in touch with the course and ask for more time; but since I can't remember the name of the course I've chosen, I can't make that call.
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