Tonight the team we were bowling against, their anchor man actually forgot his equipment--I have never seen that before, and I don't believe I have ever done that in all my years. He is a 190 avg bowler and proceeded to bowl anyways using house shoes and someone elses ball. It didn't go well for him or his team, he barely cracked 400 and they lost all the points.

Have you ever forgotten your equipment?? and if you did would you bowl anyways or would you just put yourself in as an absent bowler?

Brad

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Quote from: spmcgivern on February 10, 2017, 01:51:00 PM

I totally agree with everyone on the house shoes.  For me, it is more about my push off than my slide.  I can get used to the slide but cannot, under any circumstance, get used to slipping on my push off foot with a sliding bowling shoe.  I have forgotten my stuff before and used a tennis shoe/rubber soled shoe on my right foot and house shoe on my left.

I could deal with the idea of the slide and/or push off not being great.

I can't deal with the idea of wearing shoes that have been worn by so many different people.

I can understand this aspect.  For me though, my feet have been in worst situations than shoes worn by some teen who hasn't showered in 3 weeks.  (10-years in the Marine Corps will do that to you)

4 years as an 11B in the Army. But those sweaty, nasty and smelly feet in my Corcoran's were MINE. Not someone with whatever kind of foot fungus they may have.

Training at Fort Lee they had us running through a creek only to find out after a couple of weeks raw sewage was being pumped into the creek.  One guy left his shoes and socks in a gear locker and the waste ate a hole in the bottom of the metal locker.  So much fun.

I'll do one better....years ago my brother was visiting late 80's or early 90's...I lived in south florida and he lived approx. 230 miles away in tampa florida..we did a little bowling down there on the weekend and he got all the way back to tampa and realized he forgot his bowling bag..he had league the following day or so and he drove all the way back down to pick up the equipment and back again. That's a lot of driving in a short span of time.

Brad

More dedicated than me.   

Well, I've never forgotten my bowling ball.  But because I switch bags, I've forgotten to take my shoe, ( I only use the sliding shoe) many times.  I usually wind up just bowling in my sneakers.  Last time it was the best thing, cause right after that the rain cause the lanes next to the door to stick, with no slide.  I managed to survive the night by moving up on the approach and remembering I'm not going to slide.

I had an experience about 20 years ago.  I didnt forget my equipment, but I got in a car wreck while out of town at a tourney.   Got a ride home but couldnt get my equipment from the car.  The following week in my money singles league I found a spare pair of shoes but only had an old yellow dot and black diamond to take to league.  I went down with low expectations and started with the yellow dot.   Shot about 630 on a high scoring condition the first three with poor carry.  Decided to try the black diamond and shot 700 the next 3 to win the nightly side pot.  A couple of the young guys thiught I was some kind of legend but in truth I had a great look in this second shift league with the old hard rubber ball, although I never would have thought to try it if I had my resin equipment with me

The dumbest thing I've done is switch out a couple of balls and leave my primary thumb sleeve in one.  Thankfully, I had a back up sleeve.

I've seen other instances of people leaving thumb sleeves at home or in a hotel room.