Strike!

[athenaltena]

I went to a charity bowling event for the local branch of Big Brothers Big Sisters today with a church group, and from what I can tell there is not necessarily a correlation between the lesbian gene and the bowling gene. No really, I'll explain:

My aunt Louise (known to us as Punkey -- don't ask, my dad's family has weird nicknames for the girls) was apparently a bowling champ in this area. She died several years ago, but since I'm not eight anymore I understand that there was a very good chance she was a lesbian, and her partner (who I met at least once) was most certainly more than a roommate. We know I got at least one gene from her *nudge nudge wink wink* so I was wondering if the bowling gene was somehow connected, and ended up joking about that with Molly, another girl from this group I'm friends with.

Results were mixed. I generally scored first or second among the six players we had, though a good amount of that can be attributed to dumb luck on my part and the fact that most of the others had never boweled before. I did end up doing the classic "toss the ball in the wrong direction by accident", though it luckily didn't hit anybody, and had my share of misses/gutter balls. I think I'm better at the small ball bowling, which I used to do with my dad several years ago.

It was also very funny when I ended up playing against a kid named Joe who came with us, and we were the top two scorers of the other games. We ended up getting very competitive -- and promptly began throwing about 4 gutter balls in a row each. One of the moms with us actually commented on this. ^_^; (For the record I lost by two points)

But all the participants together managed to raise about 13,000 dollars through this thing for BBBS, so it's all good. But man, bowling is more physically taxing than it looks. *wince*

Comments

[bulmafox.livejournal.com]

I was pretty good at bowling (most of the time) when I went with my brother, but I think that's due to my "need to achieve and sulk if I don't" gene. :)