What are friends for?

Looking for something to do during the Patriots’ bye week, my best friend Ed and I agreed on a bowling outing with his wife Maria and her sister Karen today, and I told him I was anxious to show my progress since our last outing last year. Those 3 aren’t really great bowlers and they had their moments, but I was hoping to do better than the 150 first game I posted. I thought I got untracked in the second game (albeit with a couple of “Brooklyn” strikes) and had a shot at 200, but we were only renting the lane for an hour, and the lane shut off around the 9th frame of that game. There were opportunities to use my new spare ball, and I made most of my spares when using that ball, even converting a 1-2-4-10 washout throwing straight at the 2, so I guess I’m getting used to that ball. I told Ed afterward that I was disappointed that I didn’t really have a good flush pocket hit, just because I wanted to show him what I looked like when that happened. Oh well, maybe next time.