I created this list many many years ago from a thread started by someone on this site. Hope you all enjoy!!
You know you Bowl too much when....
1. You see different items around you fall down, and it reminds you of pin carry.
2. During your walk, your left arm has a natural swing, but your right arm as a follow through....
3. Your girlfriend sits in the back of your car and your balls are in the front seat.
4. You call in sick to work, but show up that night (102 Fever and all) for league.
5. Your bowling bags double as luggage for non-bowling (what's that???) vacations.
6. You tape football to watch the PBA show live.
7. Your work e-mail password is the name of one of your bowling balls.
8. You buy pants based upon their "bowling comfort."
9. You brag about your bowling performances in your AOL Profile
10. You are in the bowling alley more then your own house
11. Someone says look at that rack and you think about 10 pins on a lane
12. You sleep with your bowling ball.
13. You know you bowl too much when you post on BallReviews.com.
14. Your having sex, and you moan out drilling patterns and bowling balls.
15. You pull into the bowling center parking lot the same time as the owner. He recognizes your car and waits for you to talk on the way in.
16. Driving around you see black ice and wonder what ball, surface and pin placement would you need to hook the ball on it.
17. You care about the difference between green and blue Scotchbrite pads, or 409 and Orange Clean.
18. You have ever been asked to remove your bowling balls from the sink.
19. You own more bowling balls than pairs of dress shoes.
20. You see various objects and wonder if they would make good core shapes.
21. People ask what are you doing? You proudly tell them your cleaning your balls and you can't understand why they are laughing.
22. Your dogs stay in the garage and your bowling balls are brought in for the winter.
23. Planning a vacation and the first thing you do is see what hotel(s) are closest to a bowling center.
24. You practice your 5-step approach while walking around
25. You start giving the pins personal names.
26. You give a moment of silence for dead wood.
27. You have to change your work schedule to fit your league schedule
28. You play a bowling game on your cell phone between frames on league night.
29. You walk past anything even remotely resembling a bowling pin, and think to yourself, "I could pick that up if I had my ~insert favorite ball here~!"
30. You buy a case of new bowling pins just to say you have them. (Still not sure what you are going to do with them!)
31. Someone is talking to you and you are constantly swinging your bowling arm.
32. Your spare room has more balls than the alley.
33. You keep all the old broken balls from your local lanes to make sculptures in the garden.
34. Your garage has more cleaners than under your sink unit.
35. You can tell everyone EVERY shot that you played that evening.
36. You have your bowling buddies on all of your speed dial numbers and you have to LOOK UP the numbers of your family to call them.
37. You always arrive home past midnight even though you finished your last game at 10pm because you have to discuss the evening s bowling with the guys.
38. Your bowling forearm is twice the size of your other as is your thumb.
39. You go on a 200-mile trip away from home you're heard frequently saying, "I've bowled there" every time you pass a center.
40. Your children know more about bowling than most adults
Written by: Members of BallReviews.com
