Bowling Competition
March 24th 2011 13:07
Guest post of the week by Nestor Nielsen
Growing up my brother and I competed in a great many field. There was just one problem. No matter what it was, one of us always seemed to dominate the other. Now, don't get me wrong, kicking butt is fun. Still, it eventually gets old when you're playing one on one basketball and you're always winning 20-2 or something like that. On the flip side, he was always slaughtering me in 'Mortal Kombat' getting "perfects" in nearly every match. We could never find anything we were equally adept at.
That finally changed when we moved in together last month. We were flipping through TV channels one night when we came across a bowling match being shown on ESPN. After ridiculing the announcer for calling these bowlers "athletes," my brother mentioned even he regularly put up a score of 180 to 200 during college. In reality, all I did was adjust the barcalounger back in it's sit position, but it felt like I almost flew out of my seat. I immediately relayed that that was about what my score was in college. It was already almost midnight, but we set our home security alarm (more info) and headed over to the bowling alley for some late night bowling. We'd finally found something that we were equally adept at. Since then we've been going to the bowling alley every other night. It's like we're trying to make up for a lifetime of non-competition.
Growing up my brother and I competed in a great many field. There was just one problem. No matter what it was, one of us always seemed to dominate the other. Now, don't get me wrong, kicking butt is fun. Still, it eventually gets old when you're playing one on one basketball and you're always winning 20-2 or something like that. On the flip side, he was always slaughtering me in 'Mortal Kombat' getting "perfects" in nearly every match. We could never find anything we were equally adept at.
That finally changed when we moved in together last month. We were flipping through TV channels one night when we came across a bowling match being shown on ESPN. After ridiculing the announcer for calling these bowlers "athletes," my brother mentioned even he regularly put up a score of 180 to 200 during college. In reality, all I did was adjust the barcalounger back in it's sit position, but it felt like I almost flew out of my seat. I immediately relayed that that was about what my score was in college. It was already almost midnight, but we set our home security alarm (more info) and headed over to the bowling alley for some late night bowling. We'd finally found something that we were equally adept at. Since then we've been going to the bowling alley every other night. It's like we're trying to make up for a lifetime of non-competition.
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