Wednesday, February 08, 2006

My day @ the Bowling Alley

A mechanical arm sweeps the floor below and a crank clutches me, along with my nine brothers, by the neck and places us on the well polished wooden platform. From my postion I have a clear view of a long staight wooden road, so polished that I can see my reflection on it and a bunch of people at the end of this road waiting for me to settle down at this place.

If you have not guessed yet, I am a bottle shaped pin and I work in a bowling alley. This is a story about my typical day at work.

It is hard to like a job where u are hit, thrashed and swept out of the stage like you are nothing.. But I have always liked my job. Especially when a bunch of newbies come to the bowling alley for the first time.. Today was one such day..

A group of six people with three men and three ladies arrived at the bowling alley. I was placed in my customary 10th position. From here I have a very clear view of the young crowd. They were all twenty somethings clad in jeans and colourful T-shirts and waiting to try their hand at bowling. First was a girl who picked up a 8-pound ball. She was wondering how to hold it..I saw her looking curiously at the round devils(brr..they scare me). These devils have three hollow sockets on their face. They look very wicked especially when they are running towards me with that rage in their face and speed of a jet.

Well, she was a pretty thing, the girl, thin though but very pretty. She finally deciphered how to hold the round devil. She gingerly walked toward the threshold and bent down to roll the devil towards us. As she bowled, I heard a thundering noise of the bowling ball rolling towards us.. As it moved closer, the sound grew louder. I held my breathe and shut my eyes tightly in fear that I might be hit. But thank God!!these are a bunch of kids.. trying for the first time.. the round devil rolled into the side gutter and slowly made its way to the collection bin annoyed that he couldnt thrash us. Sadistic devil him..

Anyways, I breathed a sigh of relief. But I could see that her pretty face wore a sad expression. It broke my heart. But the she very sportively picked up another devil and walked towards us and rolled the ball. This time it hit my brother and he fell on my second and third brothers and finally all except me were down. The girl's face lit up. So happy that she'd hit us. She jumped with joy and the others around her cheered her..

One by one all of them tried their hand and every time I was lucky not to fall. And one particularly cherubic girl said 'One thing I dont know why :)' My! Linkin Park Song!! You may wonder if we have time to listen to Linkin Park but yes we do.. They play it afterwork here, a bunch of boys who clean us up. There were some good shots, there were others that were not so good but the one that I liked the most was by a cherubic girl. She came towads me , clutching a big red devil in her hand. She swung the round devil. I shut my eyes tight in fear. I heard a loud thud as I heard the devil hit the floor. I waited, waited and waited the finally opened my eyes. To my surprise everybody was laughing. I squinted to see what was happening. I saw that she had actually thrown the devil reverse .. ha ha.. and was looking at us with anticipation .. he he ..
These few incidents are what make my otherwise thrashed life worth the living.

PS: I went bowling the other day and this just came to my mind when I was watching my friend bowl in between turns...

16 comments:

Sujit said...

Nice piece of imagination to put yourself as the wooden peices of bowling. Nice flow..:)..

kaushik said...

which one are you? the cherubic girl or the pretty thing, thin though but very pretty one???

BTW awesomeeee post!!!

bechare pin balls cant read this!!!!!

cosmicblob said...

Very nice imagination! Could almost imagine expressions on 'your' face :)

Yadhvi said...

That is a very nice post!!
Next time when I play, I probably would be wondering, 'Now, what'll he think of me' ;-)

Anonymous said...

Good one..Reminds me of a particular Tom & Jerry cartoon where Tom is casted like a bowling pin and is placed along with the regulars... He must have gone through the same emotions!!!

None... said...

Neat one!

Balaji said...

very interesting way of talking about an evening @ the bowling alley :)

Vidya said...

@Sujit - thanx

@Kaushik - The cherubic one :) I know lucky they cant read this

@CosmicBlob - Thanx.. good to know that :)

@Yadhvi - he he .. careful with him okay?

@karthik - ya I have seen that one.. Infact once I started writing this I realized it was because of that cartoon that I thought this way.. I am a die hard cartoon fan :)

@Neema! - Thanx..

@Balaji - was wondering how to write about the evening at the bowling alley and then ..tada.. i got this idea :)

Shastry said...

Tooo gud.... irunthaalum innoru ponna pathi sollave illa..... konajm varuthaama irukku.. hahaha

I just went once and strted loving.. i had a fantastic exp

Arvind Srinivasan said...

:-)

Vidya said...

@Shas - enna route vidalam nu pakariya?

@Arvind - :-)

Anonymous said...

You really missed to speak on the shoes that people are supposed to wear in a bowling alley .. Instead you walked in the shoes of the tenth pin ;-) Took the readers to cloud number nine.....

Anonymous said...

Hey, dropped in from your namesake's blog and enjoyed this thoroughly!! never thought about how the world looks from the eyes of a bowling pin! good one :-)

Vidya said...

@Anon - cloud nine...cool.... well thank you for that ..

@Mukund - Thank you..

Mukund said...

hey, I just started blogging from y'day! would be great if u could check it out...

gils said...

another amazing post...awesome imagination...kalakarel pongo