June 9, 2005

 

All Star Bowling Lanes
9130
Mansfield Road

Shreveport, LA 71118

 

Dear Bowling Alley:

 

 

I was recently at your bowling alley. I love it! Bowling, I mean. Plus your alley was kinda nice. I was there for over three hours straight, rolling the ball down that slippery lane o’ yours. It was lane #3, I believe.

 

I am writing this letter to you in order to register a complaint. You probably know, since you work in a bowling alley, that rolling the ball slightly off-center usually produces a strike. You’d think that doing this over 53 times would yield a strike once in a while. However, the corner pin NEVER fell. During the entire three hours. Actually one time it fell but it got back up again.

 

What is the cause of this? I think I know, but I want to verify it. I think I saw a small Chinese man holding the end of a string. He was hiding in that part where the ball goes after it hits the pins. I saw him pop up once. When that last corner pin fell, that one time, he pulled his string and it went back up! I believe this string was attached to the bottom of the pin and ran through the floor. This prevented me from scoring a very high score. I like high scores. I like bowling. However; this experience was phenomenally strange.

 

Please let me know why you employ this man. I believe he was German.

 

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Kevin Dickinson

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