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November 30, 2004
Bowling for Houston
I drove to Houston last Tuesday in the middle of one of the worst storms I have ever been in. For the first hour or so it was dry, but soon there was a giant cloud ahead of me that was flashing multiple bolts of lightning each second. It was cool to look at from a distance, but the rain and wind were so strong that I was only doing 30-40 mph down I-10 for about an hour of the drive. By thanksgiving the sky was perfectly clear.
I was one of those people who got up at 5 am the day after Thanksgiving to go the mall because my sister-in-law wanted to go. I ended up not buying anything and went home after a few hours to sleep some more and most of the stores I wanted to go to were closed anyway. JC Penny’s gave us one of the smallest snow globes I have ever seen for being one of their first customers of the day. My wife’s high school had an alumni event that night that included laser tag and bowling so I enjoyed going to it this year. Laser tag is one of the only sports I usually win at or at least do very well. My score card said I had the most hits of anyone this time and my accuracy was 60%, but many of the people playing had never played before. I almost broke a hundred points in bowling. I bowl about once a year and I suspect that if you do not bowl more often then that you will always be as bad as I am. The highlight of bowling was when one of the women who had graduated from my wife’s highschool was talking on a cell phone in her left hand while she bowled with her right hand. I think that may top my list of people who do not know when to put the phone away. At least my score was slightly higher than hers.
Posted by Pete at November 30, 2004 10:16 AM
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