There are times when you are competing against people who you know will never be your friends, and you have to decide how to behave next to them. I was already feeling rather sad after losing 50% of my 'Made In Milwaukee" team to cancer, and it did not seem like a good idea to sign a sympathy card that was being passed around that involved the death of someone I did not even know.
Signing cards should not be taken lightly, and why sign a card just because it gets 'passed around' in public when you'd never send a card on your own to a family you do not know or have a relationship with? I wasn't in the mood for being 'fake' today, but I ended up intentionally doing what most people wouldn't want to do when I bowled a '33' game without faking any injury to myself.
The team that opposed me today was assigned to lane 14, and they are not a team I would ever want to be part of. Assigned to lane 13, I bowled a 184 on the first game, about 34 pins over my average, and lost the first game. I then bowled a bit under my average with a 141 and lost the second game; everyone from 'Diamonds and Jewels' seemed to be having a great time defeating me, so why ruin their happiness?
I did receive a notice of a possible opening on a team #9, 'Senior Pals' and team #9 is a time I could fit into better if they need a new member. They have some other options, and if they do not need me on their bowling team it isn't a problem for me, since they are going to make the best decision they can if a space needs to be filled.
I then heard that a 'Christmas party' was slotted for the 18th , and of course, I don't want to be part of that. I double checked to find out what kind of party 'Shelby Lanes' was offering next week, and an elderly gentleman said it was a 'pizza party' now. He seemed to be unaware that how you market a gathering matters. As there is a difference between a 'Ramadan party' and a 'Puritan party', there also is a difference between a 'Christmas party' and a 'pizza party', so my best way out is to pre-bowl and avoid the Christmas/pork pizza party completely, once again so I do not spoil other people's ability to have a great time doing what I don't want to do because I believe the Bible is true.
Gee, I certainly hope no one was foolish enough to be gambling on my bowling results today! Maybe next week someone should see how Ravens#66 Jensen does against Redwings #3 Jensen in unclean fowl match-ups. Maybe next month someone can see how Dan Boyle #22 does against Boyle#86 of the Ravens in an English test comparing F words to N words.
The best part of my bowling game arrived during the 3rd game. Since 'Diamonds and Jewels' seemed so thrilled to be defeating me, I could have won the game by bowling a 153, but instead I got up to 33 in the 3rd frame and decided to toss gutter balls for the rest of game 3. Throwing gutter balls after I tied the Chicago Bears score was a way to display just how little effort my 3rd husband put into what could have had 'winning' results for our family if he had tried as hard to to his best as I try. I told 2 of my friends, Rose and Alphonse, that I intended to bowl a 33. There was no need for me to try very hard to win a game, so I decided to lose 'big' and have some legal laughs in the process. A lot of people, such as bowlers or golfers, get carried away trying to avoid having results as bad as a person with a serious physical injury, and by intentionally doing as bad as you possibly can do at times makes you realize that your games can become less important to you when you are feeling sad. 33 also happens to be the number of times it took me to be able to stand up on water skis, another activity that is not necessary even if it was 'fun' at times.
"Diamonds and Jewels' members seemed to be shocked that I intentionally lost the 3rd game, but how many people are shocked when a petitioner intentionally loses a spouse because he or she quit trying to succeed? Diamonds and Jewels' wanted to win and they did, and I proved I really didn't care about bowling today, especially without Jim Corte. Jim Corte no longer bowled the lowest score in our league, I did.
Of course, I would never intentionally try to lose a game if I was a member of a team that I wanted to be part of. I was just tired of trying my best in front of people who not only do not like me, but also in front of people who really don't care if I live another 40 years or if I die today. The"Diamonds and Jewels' team actually did have a familiar spirit, and it was very much like the family of the Roland and Karen Hendrikson family.
As I left the bowling alley with a healthy attitude after clowning around so much in the 3rd game, I wonder what Alphonse and Rose really thought about me intentionally not hitting the bowling pins with my 'Rhino' ball. Was I influence to be as silly as a Volkwagon commercial where some young man tosses his ball into the gutter and then says 'Really?' even though I am quite sure he was paid to intentionally toss bowling ball into gutter? I was influenced by my own decision to bowl a '33' game today, and there was no one next to me to lie to me and say I did not have the right to bowl a '33' game instead of trying to bowl a '153' game. With a 'X', in the 3rd game, I'd have gone from 24 to 26 points in a league I have no chance of winning anything in............ other than a chance to be active in physical and spiritual warfare while spending my money in a better way than going to a Greektown casino or buying a ticket to Detroit Lions game or buying a ticket to a Detroit Redwings game..
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