Bowling for Presents

Calfgrit4’s bowling birthday party was a hit with all the kids. His guests were five girls between the ages of 4 and 7. At his current age, with his experience regularly playing with girls, this arrangement wasn’t anything to note from his point of view. He was more interested in the bowling balls than the friends, anyway.

After each bowl, he’d run back to the ball return and look down into the conveyor tube. He didn’t care how many pins he knocked down, or if he had another bowl or not, he just wanted to see the ball come back up. His ball was the only dark one — the others were pink.

In 10 or 12 more years, it will be his fantasy to have a birthday party with nothing but girls (his age or older). I bet then he’d be more attentive to his guests. That might actually be a cool “gift” to get him — instead of a car — for his 16th birthday.

“Hey, son, guess who’s coming to help you celebrate your big day. Monica, Sandra, Brandi, Catherine, and Janet.”

I can just picture the look of excitement and terror.

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Other guests to yesterday’s party were all the grandparents, of course. Brogrit surprised me by coming with Momgrit — and he brought Michelle. Michelle is a regular commenter on this site, but I had never met her before this. Heck, I never knew of her before her comments here. Howdy y’all. Thanks for coming.

Bullgrit
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