Bowl Well? Oh Well.
07/02/08 01:21 PM | Spurts
Once again the burden of maintaining last place in a summer league fell squarely on our shoulders. Once again we were equal to the task. I actually came out and defended my low average each game with a worst effort in game one 9 pins over my said pedestrian median of bowling aplomb. We didn't name our team "Total Breakdown" for nothing, at least one player each night has a disappointing effort or is smote by the kegling gods in public. Mercifully it was not I this week in any of the three contests, as I said I bettered each game and started 9 pins over the average I have so carefully destroyed since an on fire week one. The second game was 2 pins better than the firs, the third two pins better than the second and my average for the evening was 156, I have given you all the factors in this story problem, so if you wish you can now calculate my score, and evenings starting average. For the third straight week Rich struggled, not as much as in the previous two attempts, in fact only his middle game was below his average, albeit 38 pins below. Anchor bowler Tom was the real struggler this outing. Only his middle game was over his lofty self made benchmark average, and even had Rich pulled up his score to his average we would have still lost the second game by 58 pins. We are usually hero makers, gifting the gift of best career game to someone on the opposite team at least 70% of the time. Last night would have seemed another such night, except the guy who had a banner evening and single handedly won game two for the opponents was a guy with a 1 pin handicap, so he is obviously a strong bowler. He bowled 7 in a row before having a 9 -, and a 9/ then turkeyed out in the 10th. So my 11 pins over average, and Tom's 3 pin over average when added to Rich's 38 under was a lost cause in any event.
The real fun came after the bowling was done, the balls put away until they are needed again and the rest of the equipment was tucked away for another day. That is when we, Jenni and I, not the intrepid bowling machine known as "Total Breakdown" went out for the night.
Movie night. We got to the theatre with the full intention of watching Wall°E, the latest offering from Pixar/Disney, that is when we noticed that Will Smith's Hancock was also airing with a start time only 10 minutes later than Wall°E. we were the first in our theatre and grabbed the second row after the divider, middle. We watched the previews and before long there were others joining us. A sparse but enthusiastic (even talkative at times) crowd enjoyed a week-days movie outing. As we expected Wall°E was terrific, and we will be going to see Hancock soon, I'm sure. Maybe even in Tennessee.
So much for breaks and taking them on a vacation, back to the charished, chorish challange.
A cowboy's work is never done.
Chuck Pace ©2008
The real fun came after the bowling was done, the balls put away until they are needed again and the rest of the equipment was tucked away for another day. That is when we, Jenni and I, not the intrepid bowling machine known as "Total Breakdown" went out for the night.
So much for breaks and taking them on a vacation, back to the charished, chorish challange.
A cowboy's work is never done.
Chuck Pace ©2008