There Ya Go

Three years ago I was in on a new wave of the vernacular now being used across the country. It came from a working buddy who lives in Mebane, North Carolina. He's a very good golfer. No he isn't. He's an excellent golfer. His name is Wyman Woods and he has an easy way with relating to people. Maybe that's because he's been around the golfing community pretty much his entire life. Good golfers know the ups and downs of the game so they don't get excited about a great shot and they keep an even temperent on those shots that make one want to cry and throw up at the same time. Wyman's a fun guy to be around.
Regardless, Wyman introduced me to a term I hadn't heard before. It was "there ya go". The first time I heard it I thought it sounded good even though I didn't know what it meant. I think I said something like, "if I put more weight on my right side I might hit it better". Wyman responded with "there ya go". The term could be used to end a sentence, cut off conversation, offer a surprise analogy or mean absolutely nothing. I'm leaning toward the last. To be precise one usually puts word emphasis on the word 'go'. I might be wrong in this regard but I think the phrase is not used as often by intellectual people. I've never heard my good buddy, Dr. Ramey, use it. I'm not saying Wyman, myself or anybody else isn't smart but Dr. Ramey fills up his vocab with colon, esophagus, medulla oblongata: words like that. Besides, one doesn't remove an appendix then utter "there ya go".
It's now three years later and my wife and I were just recently on a trip to Oklahoma, Dallas, Texas, San Antonio, Kansas City and Boone, Iowa. I heard "there ya go" said at fast food restaurants, gas stations, post offices-----everywhere. I was in the old home town of Boone, Iowa at a Quik-Trip gas station. The cashier was covered in tattoos and wearing a tattered Harley t-shirt. The bill for my coffee came to $1.19. I didn't think I had more than $1.18 without breaking another bill but at the last second I found a fourth penny. I said, "I found one" and he said: well, you know what he said.
So, I'm giving my good friend Wyman credit for starting a movement.
I think my just turned two year old granddaughter would agree. While at her home in San Antonio I told her I found her toy flamingo and she came back with, "do-dee-do".