Quite a while ago, I bowled on a team that had a bowler who got madder the worse he bowled. He would throw the ball harder and harder. And, loft it farther and farther. Until one night, he flung the ball about 30 feet in the air. It bounced on our lane, over the separation and gutters, and knocked down pins on the next lane.

We all had a big laugh at that. A bowler on the next lane laughed so hard, his dentures came out.

"his dentures came out."

now thats comedy!

We had a guy that was bowling against us last year that was not bowling well at all. He would also get madder as time went on, and he ended up punching the ball return towards the end of the night. He gave that ball return a good shot.
The next week he shows up with a cast on his hand. He ended up breaking his hand the week before with his little tantrum.
We got a chuckle out of that,..serves him right.

I remember this one time I saw a guy in our league kick a ball return the next week with one of those big foot boots one. It was funny watching him bowl because it was on his non-slide step so he still threw the ball(not very well). But I smiled all night because of that guy.

dang now thats funny. i wouldn't hit or kick one of those things for nothing. i know it would hurt just by looking at it :P especially with bowling shoes on.

Haha, I heard a story at the other center here, of a guy I bowled with a lot and he is a very good bowler, but has a tantrum. He kicked the scoring machine unit, and I guess he hit the thing hard enough that he broke something in the lane and the entire pair shut down, and they couldn't fix it. He got suspended lol.

I've never understood the people that feel the need to hit something, especially that doesn't belong to them when they screw up the shot. I may go back and lightly tap a wall, but more than likely bang my head against the wall in a manner to lighten my mood some. I also need full use of my hands, legs and anything else in order to make a living so it never made sense to do something deliberately where I could hurt myself.

closest i ever came to a temper tantrum on the lanes- once i needed to mark in the tenth but blew the shot, i came off the approach, grabbed a pencil off the scoring desk and bit it in two while growling loudly. (yes, pencil- it was a long time ago).

i threw my brace one time because i missed an easy spare ( 6-10 ) i mean come on i missed it by just an inch of hitting the 6 pin. and it was last frame and i just had a strike. so i needed to pick up my spare to get the second game. didn't of course. but i did get the 3rd game so it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. so i learned something. "Don't do it! "

I bowl with people on a regular basis that punch and lightly kick ball returns and setee tables so I'm pretty used to it. It's not something I like to see but people get frustrated and they express it. Personally, I get annoyed when I miss "easy" spares. I don't get frustrated until I miss a number of them. But even then, me hitting something is about as rare as leaving the Sour Apple. Most of the time I don't think you can even tell it bothers me though.