The puppet show

We each have our own talents:

Sunshine: the ability to throw a strike when you start to think that she really isn't all that good.

Sir Mixalot: the ability to hit all but the two pins in the right corner.

The Erin: bowling a perfect 50 point game every time or in colloquial language: suck.

But Chris? Chris can make the pins dance.

At this particular bowling alley, all the pins are attached to strings, so whenever you knock some down, the machine pulls them all up and replaces the ones you still need to hit. While they're being pulled up, they kind of swing through the air a little, and the movement reminded us of marionettes. Little did we know that we were in for a bit of a puppet show.

Chris knocked down a couple of pins and the machine lifted all of them up. They swung through the air a little, and then the machine put them down. But instead of coming down straight, all of the pins fell down immediately, and were pulled up again by the machine.

It happens sometimes. Nothing exciting. But then it did it again. And again. And again. We started to laugh hysterically.

Chris just stood there with his ball, waiting for it to stop. It happened again, and again and again. He came and sat down and laughed with us.

It must have done that for about 10 minutes of solid laughter when the monitor above us started flashing:

PLEASE RESUME BOWLING...PLEASE RESUME BOWLING...PLEASE RESUME BOWLING...

But when we looked, the pins wouldn't stop dancing, and then all of a sudden two legs appeared in the middle of the show.

PLEASE RESUME BOWLING...PLEASE RESUME BOWLING...PLEASE RESUME BOWLING...

We wondered if extra points would be awarded for taking out the legs. Then all of a sudden, they were gone, and the lane worked properly.