BOWLING FOR DIGNITY

Or there lack of! LOL CJ, one of Andrew’s best friends called to see if we wanted to go bowling this week. We had taken the boys bowling 2 weeks after Andrew ascended. We wanted to make sure we kept the connection with Andrew’s friends. This time it was CJ, his girlfriend Kris, and her friend Heather. I have to say they all SUCKED at bowling! LOL But we had a great time.

Martin has all his bowling regalia, you know, 2 balls,…ummmm let me rephrase that, 2 bowling balls, shoes, towel, powder, and a leather hand glove thingy. SO he looks like he knows what he’s doing, like he’s on a league or something. Or something, being the operative word. He goes up and throws the first ball, annnnnd it’s a gutter ball! BUT he looks good doing it. :-D
The last time we went bowling with Andrew was when we were in England in May 2006. My sister in law, AnneMaire, was living there at the time and we had a comedy show there and a workshop in Seaford England, south of where AnneMarie lived. AnneMarie had been a semi pro bowler and she worked at a sports complex. So we decided to go bowling and when I say “we,” I mean them. I don’t bowl, I sit and drink beer. I think I mentioned before, I do not stick my fingers in warm sweaty balls of any kind! OR warm sweaty shoes! Ewwwwwwww It just grosses me out. Yea, I could have my own ball and shoes but I could also break a nail and we can’t have that. With drinking beer I have less of a chance of breaking a nail.

Anyway, Andrew beat Martin with a 145 which is low for Andrew really. He hadn’t bowled in a few years so 145 was quite respectable. If he had of stuck with bowling he woulda been bowling a lot higher. But he did beat Martin.

Martin was trying to spin the ball today the way Andrew did. Andrew could get his ball to ride the gutter then BAM! Curve right in and knock them pins down. When Martin would ask Andrew today for help on his spin, Andrew would say, “Sure Daddy.” It wouldn’t spin and Andrew would laugh. He was just yessing Martin to “death” (that pun just happened to be be too good to pass up ;-) ) I think I’ve mentioned before how if we asked Andrew a question like “what time is it?” Andrew would answer so authoritatively and say 3:34 and it’d be like 2:00. I’d say “really?” Andrew would reply “I don’t know” then laugh. He was forever answering questions he had no idea of the answer but he sounded like he did. Today was no different.

SO today Martin was trying to beat Andrew’s score. Starting with a gutter ball was not the way to do it. He did pick up his game and at the 10th frame he got 2 strikes and got to go one more time. He throws the ball just like he had the last 2 times and it curves to the left (he wasn’t trying to curve it) and it hits the far left 2 pins and ends up knocking down 6 pins! Martin stares at it in amazement because he can’t figure how 6 pins got knocked down with that throw. It didn’t make sense till he saw his score that is. His score was what?? 144!! “Close but no cigar Daddy!” :-D

IT’S ALL GOOD!