Pétanque is more fun than bocce. It’s almost the same rules, but the balls are smaller and heavier and the game is more aggressive using fist sized steel balls and using them to roll, or throw and smash, the other balls to get closer to the pin or to remove your opponents balls.
Hahahahaha...that is a great kind of game especially with guy who want things to get kinetic! The harder you wind up and throw, the more kinetic it gets until you rip up your stupid shoulder, as I did.
I know it probably sounds sexist, but I found that guys just liked loud noises and seeing things fly apart...and it doesn’t go away completely, so that you can easily imagine a few fifty year old guys screwing around and throwing bowling balls off the top of a dam somewhere. Just to see it fly to pieces.
I went candlepin bowling one time, and I was with a guy who had that same attitude (as did I, by the way) and he put so much juice on it and let go much later than he should have, and the ball sailed all the way down and put a jagged hole in the plastic surface above the lane behind which all the pins were set up.
Gosh. That is going on 50 years ago.
About 20 years ago they tore out that candlepin bowling alley and converted the space into a Dunkin Donuts, a pet store, and a bunch of small shops.
But for the next 30 years, every time I went into that place, the first thing my eyes were draw to was that jagged, black hole above that lane!