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i kinda know how that feels. I went to malaysia for a holiday, and the place i was staying had a bowling alley in it! Anyway, most of the play they get there is social, and i just got a ball drilled that day, didnt take any over there of course, and with the cheap prices over there, how could i resist buying one?! Anyway, i rocked up at 1 in the morning(which doesnt feel that late over there, the place is always alive with activity)!! and to my suprise i had to wait a further hour just to get a lane.
When i got a lane i carved up on the condition, i was shooting the lights out with my new Vortex 3. By the time i had bowled a game i had near everyone in the center watching me and not concentrating on their own bowling. So at about 4 in the morning i stopped much to everones dissapointment, and went to get some sleep. On my way out the manager of the bowl asked me what room i was staying in and how i was enjoying the place, what i thought to be small talk.
The next night, at about 1130 the phone for our room was called. My dad answered it and said, uhh matt its for you. It was the manager of the bowl asking me to come down and put on a show for their socials again, apparently other guests in the place thought i was some type of trick shot bowler and they wanted to watch me bowl again! So down i went with my vortex, put on some alley shoes, and started to bowl again. Not bowling as well that night, but still keeping over the card. When i went upto pay the manager laughed and said, Sir people have been staying just to watch you bowl, we have made enough money in the cafateria to cover your bowling, dont worry about it. I was shocked, for the first time it appeared i have acheived some sort of stardom.
We were in malaysia for a week, and i bowled for the manager all the nights but 2. And it seemed that my greatest success of my time over there was yet to come. It was 330 in the morning malaysia time, and i had just finished a game and said, i dont think i can bowl anymore, but the manager convinsed me to bowl one more. I wasnt bowling particularly well that night, and everyones focus wasnt primarily on me, everyone was bowling, and occasionally taking a glance over.
I started my last game with 2 splits, and feeling pretty stupid about both shots. Then went off the sheet with the last 10 strikes. The place was going nuts when i bowled the 10th of them. As a social based center with no leagues my 257 was the highest game ever bowled there. Ide never felt so good about a game with 2 splits in it.
Anyway, i know that all sounds a bit far fetched, but its all true, bowling wise was easily the best week of my life. I knew the malaysians were bowling crazy, but that just astonished me.
So TWOHAND834 i can relate to what you were saying, about gettin some respect when you walk in a center, its a great feeling aint it?
And dont worry about those people that you went to school with, here in australia people dont think much of bowlers either, i used to get given crap about it all the time.
Hope you enjoyed my story as much as i liked typing it.
Good luck and high scoring
matt
