Comments on: Bowling: GROSS miscalculation

By: Swistle

Swistle — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:18:47 +0000

No no no no no. Is it too late to join the team that has the shirts and uses the house balls? They sound like more fun.

By: SoMi's Nilsa

SoMi's Nilsa — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:41:25 +0000

Oh my. That sounds downright awful. Even when I played on a “mixed” soccer team that was actually quite competitive … everyone on the team was super nice to each other and so not into one-upmanship. Ewww.

Next time you need a bowling fix, I have two ideas … and both involve you and the Mister and me and Sweets. Let’s go to a bowling alley that serves greasy pizza and cold beer … or you guys come over and we’ll play it on the Wii; complementary cold beer and non-greasy pizza will be served!

By: kristin c.

kristin c. — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:11:26 +0000

HELL-O nazi bowling hell. That sounds like the worst ever. Who doesn’t SNACK while they bowl? Who is YELLING at other bowlers? Jeez. You need to get on a team that wears cool bowling shirts, uses HOUSE balls and RENTAL shoes, and snacks on pizza, bowling pin beer, and slushies.

By: samantha jo campen

samantha jo campen — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:55:57 +0000

The no snacks thing is what KILLS ME DEAD. I mean, on our (old) league we routinely held everyone else up by going to get more cheese curds, nachos, insert-greasy-fatty-yummy-bowling-food here. (Just only eat with your non-bowling hand and you’re golden).

But oh dear. Yes, run run run for the hills!

By: Alice

Alice — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:32:45 +0000

OH MY GOD. run. run away. this is the antithesis of fun.

i joined a softball team at work under the same circumstances – they needed a girl, theirs had quit, i thought it sounded fun – and HA HA HA HA HA NO. the games were at like 8p, way out by where i work (which = 45 mins from normal society) and we’d play TWO games back to back, against the SAME TEAM TWICE, and then NOT go out for beers. and it was late fall. so i’d stand in right field for 3 hours, freezing, instead of doing something NORMAL on a friday night, while the rest of my team sat around being incredibly not fun. also not drinking. so lame.

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:29:32 +0000

My mom used to belong to a league and they were similar to your new team. It was insane and I suspect that her time in the league was the reason for her shoulder issue. When we were kids my brother and I were forced onto a league. It was okay but I sucked. I did get a trophy though and my mom would always refuse to buy us any of the fun food.

I haven’t bowled in years.

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:07:04 +0000

My parents are in a bowling league and you are SO RIGHT. Not only do they have their own balls, but they have MULTIPLE BALLS EACH. One specifically for spares and one for normal bowling. ARGH.

By: k

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:56:38 +0000

OK, weird. Even when my dad and step-mom were in a (pretty serious) league (not mixed, though–he played in the men’s, she in the ladies’), there was always greasy bowling alley food and beer. ALWAYS.

I’m just curious how you ended up in this mixed league. Do you actually know anyone on this team, or was this more of a blind date sort of thing? Because you can totally dump them if it’s the latter.

By: NGS

NGS — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:30:23 +0000

You HAVE to break up with them!!

No food? For reals? I thought bowling alleys were for greasy (yummy!) food!

By: TUWABVB

TUWABVB — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:21:49 +0000

I can’t remember if this is my first comment on your blog – but I if it is – it’s a worthy post to come out for. This is one of the funniest things I have read in a LONG time. I love that there are gunner bowlers out there!

You should break up with them and start an all female bowling night that inovlves drinking and breaks to re-do your nails and tell these guys to stuff their Power Bars where the sun doesn’t shine. Seriously, a Power Bar?