To put it differently I averaged two open frames per game during warmups and four during league. Open frames are exponentially painful so that was a bit of Ouch.

One of the 40-something guys brought his girlfriend to the game. She had never seen a bowling league before and immediately went into junior anthropologist mode. Fist bumps? hand-skinning? golf-clapping? She enjoyed guessing at and interpreting all of it (quick summary - she read too much into it - people just do whatever). Her skull bulged slightly when I named the members of our league by profession: carpenter, English professor, auto-mechanic, astrophysics PhD, college undergrad (undecided), unemployed, etc. That was plenty of unexpected information for her so I didn't even mention that a couple members of our league are gay - or that there is an all gay league (it isn't as competitive, the tiny sport league is).