Tonight I went bowling with a group of work friends. There were supposed to be six of us, but we had a couple people drop out at the last minute, so only four of us could make it: me, Kristen, Jenny, and Mike, Jenny's boyfriend. For those of you who have read my previous posts (not very many of you, I would think), I'll fill in some blanks here. Jenny's the girl from the fitting room a couple posts back, and Kristen's her bff.
Anyway, I got the text to go to the bowling alley at about 9 tonight, so I headed out. I got there and without thinking, turned into the part of the parking lot covered in ice from the storm we had this week. Not my best decision ever. I tried getting into a parking space, but I get stuck in the ice. I'm driving my dad's Silverado that's almost 20 years old, and the thing doesn't have 4-wheel drive. Awesome. I call up my friends. We tried pushing the thing out, but it wasn't working, so we just decided to leave it for the time being. I called my dad, who was picking my mom up from work. He said there was some fertilizer in the trunk that I could probably use to get some traction. We went out and tried it, and the truck moved a bit, but not much. Then this guy drives by and says he has a tow cable that we can try to use. Turns out his "cable" was a latching strap, but it was better than nothing. The guy was probably a bit drunk, but he and his friends tried to help anyways. After a couple attempts, we were able to get the truck out, and I tried parking again.
By this time, Mike, Jenny, and Kristen were trying to help another driver who got stuck in the parking lot. I thought I should help, so I manuevered my car into another parking space and got out to help. The truck was slanted at an angle and pretty close to another car, but I figured I was ok. We helped the guy, and then I went back to reposition my car. Problem was, I was stuck again, and to make matters worse, the lady whose car was next to me came out and started complaining about not being able to leave. Then she went inside and started complaining to the manager, and so he sent somebody out to try to see how to make everything work. The lady had plenty of room to go without hitting me if she would just back out straight and then turn, but she wouldn't hear it. Finally, they convinced her that she could do it, and she (unhappily, I might add), went on her merry way. Fun stuff.
Then one of the maintenance guys went out to try to help me. We went through two buckets of rock salt trying to get the stupid thing to move, until finally I had enough room where I could just gun the engine and jump over the curb and into the street. I decided it would probably be best if I parked across the street, seeing as how that lot was less crowded and had less ice.
Finally, about an hour after we got there, we got down to bowling. The manager was nice enough to give us three games for the price of two, I guess in part to make up for the past hour. I'm not complaining. It was a lot of fun. I'm not that good at bowling, but I think I had a respectable day. I was last in our first game, but I broke triple digits in the other two, and I actually won the last game. Kristen had told everybody she would win all three games, so it felt good to prove her wrong. Of course, the others will say that I won because we had all agreed to not try in the third game, and nobody really did try. I guess that proves that I'm just better at not trying than the rest of them :) It's not my fault I bowled straight at the 1 pin most of the time in the last game; I really had no idea what I was doing! And, at least I didn't lose my bowling ball on my backswing multiple times (Jenny), I didn't fall down while bowling (Jenny and Kristen), and I didn't have a fault all night (all three of them, though Kristen cheated Mike into fouling on the last frame lol).
All in all it was a pretty good night. So that's all I have. Remember, I have thoughts too you know :)
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