DUCKPIN!

Ok, Lord Nelson, my buddy here at Union got me and Marc and Jen out to our first experience with Duckpin Bowling. It's outrageously fun. The alley is the same size, everything is the same as regular bowling, except....
the pins are half size
and the balls are a little bigger than a softball (all of the same weight, no holes)
So the pins are way harder to knock down because there is way less overlap with them spread out the same as regular pins and you get 3 chances per frame, not 2 like in regular bowling
But it's so hard to get a strike or spare that nobody gets a very high score, even if you're good. You can hit them right on the center and you'll knock the two middle ones out and that's it. It's hard, but so fun. The crowd was interesting, emo kids with lots of tattoos. It was like a benfold's after party in the boonies.
And the two guys running it, one looked like Tom Petty, and the other guy was ringing me up and saw my UNC Wachovia card. He goes, "hey Larry, this guy's got the right card!" "Larry" graduated in 73 from UNC and the guy ringing me up is from "near chapel hill" and his wife works in ortho at UNC hospitol. i asked where near ch and he says "little town called Burlington." i told him i worked there one summer for church. So he says "which church?" i told him and he said, "yeah, there off 49?" "Yes sir." "My parents got married there."

Small small world.