Posted on 06/08/2012 12:46:13 AM PDT by Sporke
Bowling changes...VANITY
Duckpins is harder than it looks. I had a heck of a time with that little ball.
We had a few duckpin lanes around here,but most are gone.
Since I don’t bowl, I have no idea what bowling etiquette entails. Care to explain for those of us without a clue?
That's a question that actually bears some looking in to. Since you say that you're not quite 50 (I'm in my late forties as well), you're not old enough to be the typical techno grouch. And I thought I was a meanie for making my kids wait until they were 12 before I'd let them have cell phones. My daughter being younger found it especially onerous as she had to endure her brother having a cell for a full year and half while she did not.
I’ll give you the simple answer. If you’re on the actual bowling surface (the approach), then no one on the lane to your immediate left, and immediate right, should be on the approach to their lane, until you bowl.
If that doesn’t make sense, let me put it this way. If someone on the lane next to you is about to bowl, you shouldn’t start bowling on your lane until they have bowled.
I suck at explaining things.... :-/
I’ve never been a fan of cell phones, even before they took pictures/movies. What finally put me over the edge was at my Grandmothers house last Christmas. My two nephews, who are about 7ish, were sitting about six feet from each other, texting each other, and they did it for a long time. It didn’t make me postal at the time, but it did plant a seed. :-P
We have become a world where not only do we not interact, but we don’t even look up to see the world anymore. I do have a cell phone, but when I leave the house it stays at home. If someone needs me, they can find me. :)
As for your own cell phone rule, I respect you for it. I would be the same way if my kids weren’t already out of high school.
You explained it perfectly. You shouldn’t distract a bowler on an adjoining lane.
Mine are grown as well. 2004 sounds recent, but the truth is that my 20 year old son was only 12 at the time. It's not fair how much faster time seems to move the fewer years we have left.
I guess I can say that I personally have had a cell phone since the 20th century. I can't imagine being without it anymore. Cell phones are as much a part of my life today as automobiles were to my parents, although I did not have a cell as child, and they did not have automobiles (in the family) as children.
Something else I just remembered...
It’s rare but I’ve seen people get hurt because they didn’t wait for someone on an adjacent lane to bowl. Sometimes people try to use body-english, or celebrate, and move their whole body over into the next lanes approach. I’ve seen, more than once, a celebrating bowler get taken out by someone on the next lane who was just trying to bowl. It was not a pretty sight.
I’m really bowled over by this thread.
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