We did something yesterday that, well I haven’t done in years! We went bowling! We went to one of those mega complexes, bowling alley, game room, laser tag, billiards, etc. I have to admit, I just wasn’t getting the neon colored bowling balls, the feeling that you had no space in your own lane because they cram you in like sardines and all the cotton pickin’ parties! The constant announcements over the intercom announcing “Party So-So report to Blah-blah” was annoying. It was like bowling on crack.

I miss the old bowling alley’s where you have a lane to yourself and you didn’t have to sit on top of twenty other people. I also missed the lane etiquette, where the person beside you waited till you threw your ball, didn’t run up and throw their ball when you were standing there getting ready to throw. So rude and it threw me off every.single.time!!! I could never find a decent ball, of course all the balls were either neon green, neon pink or neon purple but the holes were funky…do you remember the old bowling alley’s, all the different balls there were and there was always one that was perfect for you.

Plus I must admit, I love kids, I really do. Can’t wait to have my own grandkids one day in the far future. But some people do not control their children!! We had several experiences of kids wandering over to our lane about to throw their ball down our lane, or even walking in front of one of us as we were about to throw the ball. Where were their parents?? The absolute worst was the young couple who came to “share” our space so to speak, they had two little ones, one that was a crawler. Miss Priss was up, the woman just let the crawler loose and the crawler was under Miss Priss’s legs!!! The woman just stood there watching!!!! Miss Priss is looking back at the woman like, “I’m trying to bowl here lady, take your kid”, but the woman was the type who thought her child was so precious that we all should share her opinion! I was furious. Not only was she endangering her child, but she showed that she did not value her job as a mother for keeping her child safe. Thankfully, we were on our last frames, so we packed it up and left.

But, for the general event of bowling it was fun. I beat everyone the first game! Huge surprise! My future DIL, almost beat me, but I pulled it out in the end! Big D was the winner of our last game. I’m sore today, used some different muscles. I’m looking in this area for a good ol’ bowling alley, we’d like to bowl more often but I won’t be going back to one of those mega lane places any time soon.

And just alittle friendly reminder -