The visitor, revisited

I got to play host to my friend from the BowlingCommunity forums, “MikeHL,” again today. If I wanted a challenge, I could’ve had the Coke shot on one of the 5 pairs by the desk today, but I really just wanted us to relax and have fun, so we only took a pair with the house shot. This time, Mike got to see me at my best for at least one game, as I threw a clean 236 out of the gate. It was downhill after that however, but Mike liked to say afterwards that he dragged me down to his level (his problems bowling have been well-documented on the forums, as I may have said in my post about his first visit). He managed to beat me in the last game when, needing a double in the 10th, I failed to get the first strike. I missed a number of multi-pin spares, but only one of my single pins, and that the 7 pin, which I had been making more consistently; I made all of my 10s, but did manage to leave the pin standing after chopping the 6-9 off of the 6-9-10. Afterward, I introduced him to a couple of the other bowlers I knew, my friend John Hayes, and Tyrone Thornton, who was one of the cashers in the Hall of Fame Classic last season.