The Day After Thanksgiving

@moonhat working on thanksgiving too. dont worry Ill just be browsing for deals online instead of instore

@moonhat Oh… that sucks!

@moonhat @lseeber Working also, as I do every year. I find the day after Thanksgiving to be so stress-free (everyone else who works in my office is out), it seems wasteful to expend a vacation day.

@DrWorm same here! I work in a 24/7 dept in a county courthouse and love working shifts when the courthouse is closed. So quiet, love it. And sweatpants here I come!

@moonhat I’ll be working Friday as well. In the slower spurts I’ll be decorating the store for Christmas.

@medz Ah. We did that in the early yrs. Then I just started hosting for both families for many yrs.

@medz We did for years but on the same day with grandparents on both sides. Every year for years. Sort of hard to eat a lot at the second one with 2 main meals in one day though.

@Kidsandliz ugh. I couldn’t do 2. We all got along so it was both fams together. We still do a lot of stuff together, both families, even tho we’ve been divorced for 22 yrs, lol. The outlaws.

@lseeber We call my cousin’s cousin (that I know well as my one cousin, her cousin and I all went to the same summer camp) a cousin outlaw LOL

@mfladd

I find bowling hard.

I’ll come for the ice cream though.

@mfladd he’s a little cheater, using the bumpers!!

I love bowling. I even have my own ball and shoes. Doesn’t mean I’m any good though, lol.

@RiotDemon Where’s a place to get a custom ball for a good price? The kid wants one, and I am apt to indulge him on this.

The Special Olympics does a bowling tournament. He got the lowest score on his team. Instead of getting sad, he got motivated!

@G1 There might be a “pro shop” right in your local bowling center. Having his own gear and a fitted ball will improve his game, or at least his enjoyment!

@mfladd With my back, I’m afraid I couldn’t pick up the ball.

@G1 most bowling alleys have a pro shop. All the ones around here do free ball drilling when you buy their ball. Basic ones start around $50. (May be less for youth sizes, don’t know.) You can buy a ball online and have the shop drill it, but they’ll probably charge $20-30.

I bought my bag and shoes online because they were much cheaper than the stores, and they had the color I wanted. I ended up buying stuff for my mom and my brother. Some of it came from eBay, some from bowling.com, or bowlingball.com. I think they all ended up shipping from the same exact place, lol.

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This is the bag I have. It’s holding up pretty decent. Good entry level bag. My only complaint was that the ball holder at the bottom was just foam, so I stole a plastic holder from an old bag. You can buy a plastic ball holder for pretty cheap.

@lseeber Take a small child (as a decoy) and have them put in the kid gutter blocker things. Magic. No more gutter balls LOL

@Kidsandliz heh… that might work.