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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: TwoFourEightNineNine on August 19, 2003, 09:51:47 AM
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Well, here it is... right off my xanga blog site.
Well, the incident happens in the parking of Holiday Bowl in Hayward. To let you know the geographics of the place... Mission Blvd (and the big hill) lies to the east running parallel to the center parking lot, and Industrial Blvd happens to run perpendicular (intersecting) Mission Blvd, to the north to where I was.
The bowling center complex topography is not even. It is about two acres in size, and there is a massive slope in which the elevation is about 20' in difference from the mission street side (the highest), and the golf course/fence side which is the lowest.
Well, the entrance is at the top of this slope, close to the corner of Mission and Industrial. I usually park at the top of this slope, but the management has flagged off the area because they are waiting for the tar and whatever it takes to re-pave a parking lot to dry. Luckily it was dry. So I had to park about 50 yards away from the main entrance... which is also about 30 feet below the main entrance in terms of height. This means I get to roll my bowling balls uphill, about 50 yards, at some crazy upward slope. That wasn't the worst of it.
As you know, i have a 4-ball rolling bowling bag. It's square. it holds two on the bottom, and two on top. I also brought a 5th ball, which sat on top of the square-stacked ball bag I have to pick up spares... a ball I had spent a few bucks of pocket change on.
WELL....
I was beginning to roll up, and i was about 10 yards from the main entrance at the top of this hill...
MY BOWLING BAG HITS A ROCK AND TIPS OVER...
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THE 5TH BALL FELL OFF....
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... AND ROLLED DOWN THE HILL... BACK TO WHERE THE FENCE IS... ABOUT 40 YARDS AWAY... UNDER A CAR!
That's right. So i had to leave my bag up at the top, go back down the hill, get my ball and haul it up back up the hill...
...Then I was inside. I only missed one single pin spare with that ball today. So i guess it didn't break. Just a small scratch near the holes for me to remember this great story!
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-Jeremy Vitug
You can just bounce...
Edited on 8/20/2003 1:20 AM
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Lucky you didn't have one extra spare!
A child walking in the parking lot!
Or a little bounce off a rock in the parking lot up and into the one
Ferrari in the parking lot's windshield.
Of course one could have really gotten lucky and accidently rolled down the hill and struck Bin Laden in the head masquerading as a Redneck heading to bowling.
REgards,
Luckylefty
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I've never had any probloms in a bowling centre carpark. However when I
started bowling In 1989 the centre I started In had a car either stolen
or broken into almost every night.
They eventually hired a security guard to patrol the carpark and the
probloms stopped.
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You could edit out the language. I'm sure you were upset, but.....
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Penn State Proud
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shoot i forgot strider, thanks!
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-Jeremy Vitug
You can just bounce...
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No problem. Cut and paste can be dangerous!
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Penn State Proud
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Maybe you should get one of those extra single carryer thingys.
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Money is no object to me because I dont have any...
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Rags,
Was this who I think it is?
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Thats funny Rags! Didnt you, at one time, tell us of someone throwing a ball of a bridge into the cargo hold of a ship?
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CURLY-
"Ich spreche nicht Deutsch?!"
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Hey JV,
Think on the bright side!It coulda been one of your
killer heavy oil expensive (aka took half my paycheck)
balls that went Jack and Jill stlye of rolling down that
darn hill!!!!!!!!!!
Hey,what kind of BALL(aka brand,company,yadadada) that took the roll on down that hill?
Just curious?
Psycho.B.T