Bowling and Betting

For the first time in the three years I have been at college, I am taking a class just for fun. This class is bowling - it is completely 100% unnecessary for any requirements towards graduation for me. But I will tell you what – it is so worth it! I am only going to be in college once, so I might as well take advantage of it, right? The class is held off campus at the bowling alley once a week - and basically you just go sign the roll and then bowl for two hours. The instructor comes around and gives you tips on how to improve, and that’s pretty much it. You just get to bowl and hang out with your friends for a couple hours, and get some school credit for it. Before we began, our instructor took us back behind the lanes to see all the machines and how they work, which was also way cool to see. How many people do you know that have actually been in the back of the alley to see how it all works? I didn’t know anyone, until I took this class. It’s pretty cool stuff.

The first day of class, we met some other students in the class that were sitting across from us, and we made a bet with them. On our last game, whichever team had less points, had to buy the other team hamburgers. As the game proceeded, it was pretty obvious that my team was going to win. The game finished, and we won the bet. We figured that this was going to be just like every other bet made in college, an empty one. It usually turns out that you are badgering whoever owes you for the rest of the semester, and you usually don’t ever get the prize agreed upon. But to our great surprise, we jokingly said, “so where are our hamburgers,” and they replied, “they are paid for and on their way down here.” We were all pretty shocked, and sure enough our hamburgers arrived a few minutes later. So there we were in class- eating our free hamburgers, after three games of bowling with fellow students and friends, completely satisfied after a day of bowling and betting.

P.S. I just have to throw this in there… another fact that I was reminiscing upon while eating my free hamburger was that I bowled my best ever score – a 175 - and my first turkey ever that day as well!
P.S.S. I totally beat Brett and his nephew Kelby who is also in the class with us. Hehehe