Zman,
I feel your pain, man, I've been there. The same type of thing happened to me during a match-play set a few months back. I tried every ball, every hand position, and every inch of that lane to try to find a way to carry and nothing would work. All you can do in that situation is to make your spares, laugh about it and move on. For me, I was just happy that it happened during a league night, instead of during a tourney where I dropped $90-$100!
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Bowling is without a doubt the dumbest, most pointless, most idiotic excuse for a game that has ever been invented. So, what time are we bowling tomorrow?