When some people take a sabbatical, they leave one type of work in search of an alternative lifestyle. Others leave study to go travelling and get real world experience. Then there are those who leave responsibility behind to go bowling.

And get good at it.

Really, really, really good at it.

You should never go bowling with those people.

Sadly when ten of us went out for a pizza and a social bowl this week we didn’t realise we had amongst us a bowling ninja. On Troy’s team, the sledging and baracking started early, while on Dave’s team, Nik was just offering team mates the occasional helping hint. Then he stepped up to bowl.

BAM! You know what that is? That’s the sound of Nik getting strike after strike (while Dave and Kate sent bowling ball after bowling ball down into the gutters). To be fair, in the second game Brendan showed his sporting prowess to record a very respectable 186, Steph, Sina, Big Dave and Elise all scored over 100, but at the end of it all, Nik’s 221 was by far the stand out score of the night.

Next time we do this, I dibs being on Nik’s team.

If he’ll have me.

Tags: bowling, social