Time for a bowling outing!
A few weeks ago, 5 families got together for a bowling outing at the local lanes - new lanes at the Asia Games sports center.
(Do you sense a theme here? A lot of the "infrastructure" improvements in the city were all sprruedon by the city hosting the Asia games last fall. That's why many veteran ex-pats here just shake their heads at all the changes they have seen in this city in the past 5 years. It really has become a modern city.)
It's a very modern facility a 32-lane center with (of course) automated scoring and bumpers, if needed. They had shoes my size (size 11!) and the lanes were extremely well lit. The flags of the participating countries were still hanging from the ceiling.
The ball racks were all labeled; you would see a "9" on a rack, and that means that's where the 9 lb balls go there. I thought that was ingenious. No more wasting 10 minutes at the beginning trying to find a proper ball.
However, the downside: there were racks and racks of 8, 10, 11, 12 lb balls; in the whole 32 lane facility, there were 6 15-lb balls and 3 16-lb balls. That's it. It's like the complete opposite of the US, where there is one 8 lb ball for the kids and 3,562 16 lb balls for Vito and his pals.
(The adults did get to bowl one game; my 138 was not that awful, considering it's been 18 months since I bowled and the presence of 2 Chinese kids crawling all over the ball return system while I bowled. It's not a jungle gym.....)
2 comments:
138??? And you want to play me for money?? I would feel bad taking all your yuan
Mr. Wiz:
It's clear you have no idea what's it is like to bowl at a multi-family outing. The ratio of bowlers is 2 kids for 1 adult.
Let me put it to you in terms that you can understand.
It's like playing blackjack..... except:
it's a $5 table
there are 12 seats, not 6
all the seats (except yours) are filled with 21-year old frat guys who don't have a clue how to play
And the drink ladies come once an hour
And you are trapped there.
How would you fare?
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