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If it wasn’t for TikTokwe probably wouldn’t know that much about one golf cart girl‘s day to day work.
Lately, however, the content genre has gained extremely popular on the platform, where these workers, often officially called golf course beverage cart attendants, share details about what the job is actually like.
Sometimes the stories are troubling, especially when workers talk about golfers behaves inappropriately or get into harassment. Other times they show how lucrative the job can be with a golf cart girl on it TikTok previously said she earned $1,080 in tips during an eight-hour shift.
Recently, a golf cart girl from Houston shared a more cheerful fact: the most common thing she hears from golfers while on the job.
TikTok creator Elizabeth (@makeupby.elizabeth) shared in a video that got over 105,400 views, the question she says she gets asked all the time.
What is the #1 question a golf cart girl gets asked?
“OK, No. 1 question I’m being asked as a cart girl,” Elizabeth says at the start of the video.
According to her, it is not an occasional thing either.
“I’m guaranteed to be asked at least once every time I work,” she says.
Then she reveals the question.
“Oh, wanna take a shot with us?” she says, mimicking golfers. “Oh, let’s buy you a shot. Take a shot with us.”
Elizabeth says she always has to turn them down for an obvious reason: she’s still at work.
“And I’m like, ‘I’m going to be here all day and I’m going to get fired,'” she says. “Like, no.”
But according to her, that usually doesn’t stop golfers from trying to convince her.
“And they say, ‘Oh, that’s fine. No one will know,'” she says.
Elizabeth seems to take the question in stride.
“So that’s the No. 1 question I get asked as a cart girl,” she says. “But I love my job.”
Other carriage girls knew exactly what she meant
In the comments section, other viewers who work or have worked on golf courses seemed very familiar with the situation.
“#2 can you come home with us?” wrote one user, claiming it’s the second most common thing you hear.
Another admitted they didn’t always say no.
“I always say yes, then I finish at 9,” they said.
A former cart girl shared the solution she used when golfers offered to buy her a drink during a shift.
“Yes, it has been done,” they wrote. “I usually say sure, can I save it for after my shift?”
Can you drink while driving a golf cart?
Elizabeth’s answer also makes sense for security and legal reasons. While golfers often drink on the course, that doesn’t mean it’s legal to drive a golf cart after drinking too much.
According to Texas DWI lawyer Doug MurphyTexas DWI law still applies to a person who is intoxicated while operating a motor vehicle in a public place. The legal alcohol limit is still a blood alcohol level of 0.08, the same as for a car or truck.
He notes that golf carts may qualify because they are used to transport people and can be driven on or over roads near golf courses.
He also explains that golf cart DWI cases can become more serious when carts are driven on streets, highways, parking lots, or other areas accessible to the public. These cases are not usually prosecuted when they occur on a golf course, where there is little chance of injury.
So even aside from possibly getting fired, a cart girl taking shots while driving around all day can create obvious safety, legal and liability issues.
BroBible has reached out to Elizabeth via TikTok messages for comment.
