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In reply to the discussion: How did you come by your username? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)In my case, it was my being begged to join a bowling league because my division needed one more person to field a team. I warned them that I sucked, had only done candlepin bowling a few times as a kid, that I had no experience, etc., but they were desperate. So, I said OK. They found out soon how badly I sucked.
I will say, the rest of the team was pretty nice to me (I bought more than one round of brews to make up for my shitty showing) and they started to give me tips. Soon I wasn't rolling gutterballs, and I got to the point where I wasn't "horrible." I even bought a bowling ball, bag and shoes instead of using the lane ones. I looked like I knew what i was doing between those items and my jazzy team shirt--a fancily embroidered and very well made thing that wore like iron!
Anyway, I got close to a perfect game once...but no cigar, too! Still--I was very pleased with myself, because a three-niner was probably close to my first score on the lanes!