Chris is a pretty good guy for the most part. He is a pain in the arse to bowl on a squad with because he will occasionally raise his voice and hit things. Once you get him off the lanes out of competition, though, he's not a bad guy to be around.
In my last regional during the practice session, Chris and his brother came down to bowl on the pair next to me. I stepped up on the approach and threw a pretty, clean shot the put 10 in the pit; I was playing around 22 or so at the time. Chris stepped over to my pair. I wasn't really looking up - you know, just mentally working out possible ball/shot combinations - when I realized that someone was standing in front of me. I looked up and Chris was about 8 inches away from my face looking right into my eyes. Chip was standing right behind him looking over his shoulder.
Chris, with all seriousness says, "You can't do that."
Thinking I had violated some minor rule I replied, "What's that?"
He pointed back at the lane I had just struck on and said, "That. You're not allowed to play that part of the lane. Lefties are supposed to play out at 5."
I raised my hands as if to say 'whoa' and replied, "Hey. I didn't get the memo."
He laughed and walked back over to his pair, shaking his head in sarcastic disbelief as he told Chip, "A lefty that moves his feet..."
We ended up talking for a bit during the tournament. He was on A squad; I was on B, so I was able to watch him for the last few games of qualifying. My opinion of him ended up changing a bit that day; admittedly I was of the mind that he was just a spoiled brat, but he's no better or worse temper-wise than I have been during my career. Not to mention he's a pretty friendly, decent guy.
Congrats to him for making it at tour trials.
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/|\None are more hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free....
