It feels so good to finally have clean balls

 

1. Dang. I miss bowling...my back is so frakked up.

   Posted by Macker       01/07/2012  at  07:05 AM  



2. I haven’t bowled in many years.  I took bowling in high school in an eight lane place that still had pin boys.  I was taught to throw a strait ball, a four step approach and the ball over the second arrow.  By the end of the semester my average was 153.

   Next came a bowling class in college (isn’t American education great).  I used the same mechanics and boosted my average into the low 160’s. I never did much bowling afterwards but enjoyed watching it on television.  My highest game ever, after leaving school, was a 229.  People would tell me if I owned my own ball and got used to it I could boost my average by 10 pins.

   Sometimes I would try and throw a curve but either through lack of practice or ineptitude I never figured out how to make it work. Anyway I have a question. Does anyone still use a strait ball, and if so what are the best averages of people who do?

   Posted by Wes       01/07/2012  at  12:19 PM  



3. Haven’t bowled since 2001. I was a patient at the local VA and had use of the VA’s bowling alley. I also had use of their gym IF someone was there to open it.

   My favorite bowling memory is the time I took my then girlfriend (now my wife of 21 years) and her youngest son bowling. I hadn’t bowled in several years, and they’d never bowled. So what did I do?

   “I haven’t bowled since the Navy…” I told them.

   Of course, I bowled a strike on the first ball!

   They both looked at me and said ‘Right!’

   Honest, that had never happened before, and has never happened since.

   As a Veteran, I still have free access to the VA’s bowling alley. But it’s a long drive and my schedule conflicts with my wife’s.

   Posted by Christopher       01/08/2012  at  11:10 AM  

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