[quote author=SixT9er Is that the place a block or two off of Virginia Street?
Nice Alley, 50 lanes if I remember right.
I really despise the parking situation there & that it’s out away from everything else. When it was orig built as the MGM Grand it was literally by itself, nothing around it
It is a nice Alley I don't remember how many lanes. I only bowled there once. 3 games with a certain female friend that even to this day will always be special to me and have a special place in my heart.
Anyway she suggested we go bowling, and other than the stadium it was in her opinion the nicest center close to the Reno area.
So once we got there I paid for 3 games for her and 3 for me.
Even though it was like 4pm for whatever reason they were doing a cosmic thing. Which meant the lanes were dry, and I left my plastic lanes are Dry as 💩💩 ball at home in California. So I wasn't going to worry about my scores.
Anyway my female friend doesn't hardly ever go bowling. So while my scores were not what I wanted. They were as you.would expect still higher then hers. She did hiwew actually do a little bit better than she thought she would the first two games. She said I must have been good luck for her bowling game. She then decided to talk a little smack, and said I'm going to beat you this last game.
So I thought🤔🤔 I have many wonderful memories with this girl. I'm going to let her win the last game I think to myself.🙂🙂 However I had to make it look like I was still trying she would get mad at me.☹ If I made it to obvious. I'm sandbagging the last game to let her win.
So we roll on through this last game. She is doing fairly well by her standards because she never hardly ever bowls. and she Is using a house ball. Im using the weakest ball I had with me. I was an alternate in a tournament that I didn't actually bowl in. Which is why I had two of my bowling balls with me, and I was free that afternoon to go with this old female friend bowling at GSR.
Anyway so I was making a point too miss easy spares here and there aim for just the 7 on the first shot. Stuff like that just to keep it close. without intentionally throwing it in the gutter. We get to the last frame. I think she shot something like 75 or 80. So I'm going to try and throw it in the gutter but make it look like it wasn't intentional. Easier said then done. I put it out to like the 2 board, but unlike the first two games before I decided to sanfbag without being obvious. Unfortunately this time the ball came back. For like 9 count. So unfortunately I wound up with something like a 94 and won the game anyway.
The problem was because of my efforts not to score, but make apprar like I'm still trying. I must have picked up some bad habits or something. I went in a slump for 6 months. I had problems break 115 most of the time.
It wasn't till 6 months Later I'm in Reno again for a tournament I actually bowled in at the stadium, and this same old female friend came out to watch me bowl in the tournament, and be my personal cheerleader for that event. That I snapped out of my slump.
After the tournament was over. This old female friend and I went out for a late lunch early dinner to spend a little more time together as friends. Before we parted ways☹ and I went to bed for a nap for a few hours. Anyway before we parted ways my friend tells me I well. I told her she was good luck for me because I had been bowling like💩💩 the privous 6 months.
The moral of this story. I'm not a good enough bowler to sandbag. I highly doubt life will ever actually allow this particular female friend and I to have a rematch on the bowling lanes. However if her and I ever have that rematch. She is going to have to practice. I have zero problems if a woman bowls better than me. But this friend of mine will need to earn her victory, or find a way to distract me, because I am just plain and simple not a good enough bowler to sandbag one game, and then.turn it back on like a light switch.
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